JOHN C. TIBBETTS is a retired Professor at the University of Kansas, where for more than 25 years he taught courses in film history, media studies, and theory and aesthetics. He is an author, educator, broadcaster, as well as an artist and pianist. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in Multi-Disciplinary Studies (Art History, Theater, Photography and Film). As a broadcaster and journalist and scholar he has worked as a news reporter for CBS Television and National Public Radio; produced classical music programming for Kansas Public Radio; written (and illustrated) many books, including The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton: Gargoyles and Grotesques, The Furies of Marjorie Bowen, The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, Those Who Made It: Conversations with the Legends of Hollywood, Peter Weir: Interviews. He was awarded in 2008 the Kansas Governor’s Arts in Education Award, presented by Governor Kathleen Sebelius.