"Back to the Future" Subtitle: History and Society on the Screen Author: Dai Jinhua/ Wang Yan Publisher: Life·Reading·New Knowledge Sanlian Bookstore

Dai Jinhua is from Beijing. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University and taught at the Film Literature Department of Beijing Film Academy for 11 years. He has been teaching at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture of Peking University since 1993. He is a distinguished professor of humanities at Peking University and the director of the Film and Cultural Research Center of Peking University. He is engaged in film, mass media and gender research, and has taught courses such as "Film Reading", "History of Chinese Film Culture" and "Theory and Practice of Cultural Research". He has lectured and visited dozens of countries and regions on five continents. He has more than ten monographs, which have been translated into multiple languages. His representative works include "Floating on the Surface of History", "Landscape in the Mist", "Film Criticism", "Invisible Writing", "The Boat of Crossing", "Yesterday's Island" and "Gender China".

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Wang Yan is a professor at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. He has many years of overseas experience, traveling between Chinese and American academic circles to teach and conduct research. He has written "The Temporality and Modernity of Novels: A Study of the Temporality of Narratives in European Coming-of-Age Novels", "After Auschwitz: The Image Production of Jewish Holocaust Memory", "American Past: Hollywood Mirror and Historical Memory", and "Traveling Through the Depth of Time: From Jerusalem to New York". He has published more than 100 articles.