Caroline Langhorst is a film and cultural historian/independent scholar and creative practitioner. She has a PhD from De Montfort University on rebellious actors, performance styles and nonconformist stardom in 1960s British cinema, and has published on performed masculinities, the long, transatlantic 1960s and the counterculture as well as actor/director collaborations.

Robert Shail is Professor of Film and Director of Research in Leeds School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University. He is widely published on postwar British cinema including its directors and stars, and on the representation of masculinity. His most recent work has focused on children's culture including films, television and games.