K. J. Donnelly is a Reader in Film Studies at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Magical Musical Tour: Rock and Pop in Film Soundtracks (2015), Occult Aesthetics: Sound and Image Synchronization (2012), British Film Music and Film Musicals (2007), The Spectre of Sound (2005) and Pop Music in British Cinema (2001); as well as editing five books concerning music and different forms of audiovisual media.

Beth Carroll is a Lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton. Her research interests include space, musicals, music, gestalt theory, haptics, disgust and video games. She has recently published a chapter on the Pet Shop Boys in Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films: Making Music for Silent Cinema (2016). Her monograph, Feeling Film: A Spatial Approach (2016), explores a spatial methodology for the reading of films.