Annette Davison is Professor of Music and Audiovisual Media at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her publications include Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice: Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s-90s (2004), Alex North’s A Streetcar Named Desire: A Film Score Guide (2009), and the co-edited collections The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions (2004), and The Sounds of the Silents in Britain (2013). She is currently working on a book and videographic project that explores the place of oil in films and television series.