Kim Wilkins is Associate Professor of Media Aesthetics at the University of Oslo. She is the author of American Eccentric Cinema, Gentrifying Scenes: Cities on Screen and co-editor of Refocus: The Films of Richard Linklater, Refocus: The Films of Spike Jonze, A24: Culture, Aesthetics, Identity, Radical Auteur: The Cinema of Ari Aster, and the Screen dossier, 'Metamodern Pastiche', as well as numerous journal articles and anthology essays on contemporary culture, film, and television.