Cecilia Sayad is senior lecturer in Film at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Her books include The Ghost in the Image: Technology and Reality in the Horror Genre (Oxford University Press, 2021), Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2013), Film Criticism in the Digital Age (co-edited with Mattias Frey, Rutgers University Press, 2015), and a Portuguese-language book on Charlie Kaufman titled O jogo da reinvenção: Charlie Kaufman e o lugar do autor no cinema (Alameda, 2008).