Phyllis R. Klotman is Professor of Afro-American Studies and Founder/Director of the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University. Her publications include Screenplays of the African American Experience, Frame by Frame: A Black Filmography, and with Gloria J. Gibson, Frame by Frame II: A Filmography of the African American Image, and over 30 articles/essays on African American film and literature.
Janet K. Cutler is Professor of English and Coordinator of the interdisciplinary film program at Montclair State University, where she has taught film studies for twenty years. Her published work on film and video has appeared in such journals as Black Film Review, Cineaste, Film Quarterly, and Persistence of Vision.