Martin Shingler is Senior Lecturer in Radio & Film Studies at the University of Sunderland (UK). He has published numerous essays on Bette Davis, is the co-author of On Air: Methods and Meanings of Radio with Cindy Wieringa (1998), Melodrama: Genre, Style & Sensibility, with John Mercer (2004) and author of When Warners Brought Broadway to Hollywood, 1923-1939 (2018) and Star Studies: A Critical Guide (2012). He is also the co-editor of a series of books on film stars for Bloomsbury/BFI.