Robin R. Means Coleman is Vice President and Associate Provost of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and the Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present, 2nd ed.; Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present and African-American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor. She is co-author of The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror from Fodder to Oscar and Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life, editor of Say It Loud! African American Audiences, Media, and Identity, and co-editor of Fight the Power! The Spike Lee Reader. Novotny Lawrence is the Director of the Black Film Center & Archive and Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre, the editor of Documenting the Black Experience: Essays on African-American History, Culture, and Identity in Non-Fiction Films, the co-editor of Beyond Blaxploitation, and the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Popular Culture.