Anna Backman Rogers is the author of American Independent Cinema: Rites of Passage and the Crisis-Image (Oxford, 2015) and Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure (Berghahn, 2019). She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the open-access, online academic journal MAI: FEMINISM AND VISUAL CULTURE, and teaches at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.