Terence McSweeney is a senior lecturer in film and television studies at Solent University, UK. He is widely recognised as one of the leading writers on contemporary American cinema. He has held research posts at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics, UK. Terence’s newest book, Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon (2021) won the Congrès Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes Africaines (COAFRO) Award for Best Book on African Studies (2021), a Non-Fiction Authors Association Gold Award (2022), an eLIt Gold Award in the category of Popular Culture (2022), a National Indie Excellence Award (2022), and has been nominated for an American Book Fest Award (result pending, 2022). He is also the author of The Contemporary Superhero Film (Short Cuts) (2020), Avengers Assemble! Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2018), and The War on Terror and American Film: ‘9/11 Frames per Second’ (2014).