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Chelsea McCracken is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at SUNY Oneonta. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Communication Arts. Her research interests include LGBTQ media, American independent cinema, and media industries, and she has published work in Screen, Media History, and Asian Cinema. Matt Connolly is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato. His scholarly work on LGBTQ cinematic history has been published in Cinema Journal and Spectator. He is currently revising his dissertation, which analyses the early career of queer filmmaker John Waters.