Editors’ Introduction: Habitation: Of Space and Absence Available to Purchase

Shelleen Greene is an associate professor of cinema and media studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include Italian cinema, postcolonial studies, and feminist digital studies. Her book Equivocal Subjects: Between Italy and Africa—Constructions of Racial and National Identities in the Italian Cinema (Bloomsbury/Continuum, 2012) examines the representation of mixed-race subjects of Italian and African descent in Italian cinema. Her work has also been published in the edited volume Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and in the journal California Italian Studies.

Ellen C. Scott is an associate professor and head of the Cinema and Media Studies program at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Her research focuses on the meaning of film in African American communities and the relationship of media to the struggle for racial justice and equality. She is author of Cinema Civil Rights (Rutgers University Press, 2015). She is working on two projects, one exploring Black women film critics and another examining the history of slavery on the screen in the United States, which has received grant funding from the Academy Film Scholars program of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.