Eli Boonin-Vail is Lecturer and director of the Film Studies Minor at SUNY Albany. Eli received his Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His current research focuses on American cinemas’ relationship to the prison industrial complex, through the lenses of trauma theory, sound studies, and censorship studies. Other interests include a wide range of production cultures as they intersect with Black studies, transnational cinema, and comics studies. Eli’s work can be found in Animation Studies, Inks, Film Criticism, French Screen Studies, The Quarterly Review of Film and Video, InMediaRes, and Music, Sound, and The Moving Image, as well as the edited collections Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in Early Comics, 1900 – 1960 and A Century of 16mm.