Biography: William Brown is a Cinema Studies scholar and professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has published numerous essays in journals and edited collections, and is also the author of The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia (with David H. Fleming). Furthermore, he is also a maker of zero- to low-budget films, all produced under the umbrella of Beg Steal Borrow. His films are available online at vimeo.com/user3889955.