Dr. Olivia Cosentino is Assistant Professor of Film and New Media Studies in the Department of Humanities & Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida (USF). She received her doctorate in Spanish (Latin American Cultural and Literary Studies) from The Ohio State University in 2020. Her research focuses on stardom, modernity, affect, and the interconnections between media in post-Golden Age and contemporary Mexican film and culture. She co-edited, with Brian Price,The Lost Cinema of Mexico: From Lucha Libre to Cine Familiar and Other Churros (University of Florida Press, 2022), a volume that rethinks popular cinema from the 1960s to 1980s. Cosentino is currently revising her monograph, Starscapes: Youth, Media, and Modernity in Mexico, research which has previously been supported by a Faculty Summer Field Research Grant from the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University, an Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship and a Distinguished University Fellowship from The Ohio State University. Her work has been published in a plethora of peer-reviewed journals, including The Velvet Light Trap, Journal for Cinema and Media Studies, iMex, and Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas, and her essays have appeared in collections like The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture, The Latin American Road Movie, and Domestic Labor in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema.