Juan A. Suárez is Professor at the University of Murcia in Spain. He is the author of Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars; Jim Jarmusch; and Pop Modernism: Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday. His essays have appeared in Screen, Journal of Film and Media Studies, Grey Room, and New Literary History, among others, and in numerous edited volumes, most recently in The Music and Sound of Experimental Film, The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema, and A Companion to Experimental Film.