Bülent Diken is Professor of Social and Cultural Theory at Lancaster University, UK, and at Kadir Has University, Turkey. In particular, his research interests include the sociology of cinema, and he has a number of previous publications, which include The Culture of Exception (2008) and Sociology through the Projector (2005). Graeme Gilloch is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. He researches and teaches courses in visual culture - especially film and photography - and metropolitan and urban cultures. Craig Hammond is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK. He researches film from a sociological perspective, amongst other interests. His previous publications include Hope, Utopia and Creativity in Higher Education (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).