Landon Palmer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. His research focuses on relations between motion pictures and other industries throughout the second half of the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the recording industry. He is the author of the book Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom, and his work has been published in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Media Industries Journal, The Moving Image, and Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, as well as various scholarly anthologies.