Peter C. Kunze is Assistant Professor of Communication at Tulane University, where he teaches courses in film history, media industry studies, and media aesthetics and analysis. He is the author of Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance and editor of several volumes, including Conversations with Maurice Sendak and The Films of Wes Anderson: Critical Essays on an Indiewood Icon.

William V. Costanzo is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English and Film who has taught writing, literature, and film courses since 1970. He has published seven books on topics ranging from writing and computers to world cinema and film genres, including World Cinema through Global Genres and When the World Laughs: Film Comedy East and West. He is currently an active member of The Society of Cinema Studies and the International Society for Humor Studies