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Nathalie Morris Editor

James Bell is Features Editor of Sight & Sound magazine and the editor of the BFI Compendium book series, including 39 Steps to the Genius of Hitchcock (BFI, 2012), Gothic: the Dark Heart of Film (BFI, 2013), Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder (BFI, 2014), Electric Shadows: A Century of Chinese Cinema (BFI, 2014) and Black Star (BFI, 2017). He programmes the regular Sight & Sound-sponsored Deep Focus season strand at BFI Southbank. Nathalie Morris is senior curator of Special Collections at the BFI. She writes for magazines including Sight & Sound; websites including Khoollect and BFI News & Opinion; and for DVD labels including Arrow, Indicator and BFI. She regularly speaks about film and has appeared on Nightwaves (Radio 3); Great Lives (Radio 4); and television documentaries and programmes including Mastermind (not as a contestant!). Nathalie has contributed to books including British Women’s Cinema (Routledge); Women Screenwriters: An International Guide (Routledge); Ealing Studios Revisited (BFI). She has cooked Alfred Hitchcock’s Quiche Lorraine on camera for the BFI’s 2012 Hitchcock project and in her spare time she writes about movies and meals for her blog Food on Film. Claire Smith is Curator of Stills, Posters and Designs at the British Film Institute. She has contributed to exhibitions and publications on art, design, moving image and material history, including Quilts 1700 -2010 (V&A, 2010), Henry Moore: Plasters (Royal Academy, 2011), 39 Steps to the Genius of Hitchcock (BFI, 2012) and Gothic: the Dark Heart of Film (BFI, 2013).