K.J. Donnelly is Professor of Film and Film Music at the University of Southampton, UK. He is author of The Shining (2018), Magical Musical Tour: Rock and Pop in Film Soundtracks (2015), Occult Aesthetics: Sound and Image Synchronization (2013), British Film Music and Film Musicals (2007), The Spectre of Sound (2005) and Pop Music in British Cinema (2001); and editor of Film Music: Critical Approaches (2001), co-editor (with Phil Hayward) of Music in Science Fiction Television: Tuning to the Future (2012), co-editor (with Will Gibbons and Neil Lerner) of Music in Video Games: Studying Play (2014), co-edited with Ann-Kristin Wallengren, Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films: Making Music for Silent Cinema (2016), co-edited with Steve Rawle, Hitchcock and Herrmann: Partners in Suspense (2017) and co-edited with Beth Carroll, Contemporary Musical Films (2018). He is series editor for the 'Music and the Moving Image' and 'Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture' and is on the editorial boards of seven journals.

Aimee Mollaghan is subject lead for Film at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. Prior to this she was a Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill University, UK. She is the author of The Visual Music Film (Palgrave, 2015). Her current research is centred on psychogeography, landscape and soundscape in contemporary cinema and artist's film.