Paul McDonald is Professor of Media Industries at King's College London. Recent publications include editing The Routledge Companion to Media Industries (2022), and co-editing Media Industries and Cities (2026), Global Film Policies: New Perspectives (2025), and Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines (2021). He's undertaken a number of initiatives advancing the critical analysis of media industries, including co-editing the British Film Institute's International Screen Industries book series (2000-24), founding media industries networks within the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), and establishing the Media Industries conferences. Christopher Mei r is Assistant Professor of Communication at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he is a member of the TECMERIN research group as well as the University Institute of Spanish Cinema (IUCE). He is the author of Scottish Cinema: Texts and Contexts (2014) and Mass Producing European Cinema: Studiocanal and Its Works (2019). He has also co-edited the volumes Beyond the Bottom Line: The Producer in Film and Television Studies (2014) and European Cinema in the Streaming Era: Policy, Platforms and Production (2024), along with special issues of journals including Transnational Screens, The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Studies in European Cinema, and others. Andrew Spicer is Professor of Cultural Production at the University of the West of England Bristol. He has published extensively about film noir, stardom and masculinity, and media industries.

His recent publications include Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity (2022); Go West! 2.5: Bristol's Film and Television Industries (2025), co-authored with Jelena Krivosic; and The Politics of Place: Space and Location in European Screen Industries (2026) co-edited with Ruth Barton and Amy Genders. He is currently writing a monograph on the UK's Public Service Broadcasters and an analysis of the political economy of the Natural History genre.