Gloria Monti Editor

Gloria Monti is associate professor of film studies in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Fullerton, where she has been the recipient of the Faculty Recognition Program Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity (2013) and for Outstanding Teaching (2016). Her research is focused on Italian, American, and French cinema. Martin Shingler is a former senior lecturer in film and media at the University of Staffordshire and senior lecturer in film and radio at the University of Sunderland. He is the coauthor of On Air: Methods and Meanings of Radio and Melodrama: Genre, Style, Sensibility and the author of Star Studies: A Critical Guide; When Warners Brought Broadway to Hollywood, 1923–1939; and Diana Dors: Film Star and Actor.