Marianne Kac-Vergne is Associate Professor of American Studies at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France. Her research interests are masculinity, femininity, Hollywood genres and science fiction. She is author of Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema: Cyborgs, Troopers and Other Men of the Future (I. B. Tauris, 2017).
Julie Assouly is Associate Professor of American Studies at Université d’Artois, France. Her research themes are American cinema, the Coen brothers, Wes Anderson, pictorial intertextuality, New Hollywood, Americana and nostalgia. She is series editor of série cinémas and co-editor of La culture italo-américaine à l’écran: Cinéma et télévision (Italian American Culture on Screen: Cinema and Television) (forthcoming).