Luke McKernan

Luke McKernan is a film historian and news curator. He is Lead Curator of News and Moving Image at the British Library, and Associate Editor for the journal Early Popular Visual Cultre. He has written widely on early film for a number of academic journals and also curates a web resource on Charles Urban at www.charlesurban.com .

Charles Urban: Pioneering the Non-fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897-1925 (UEP, 2013) was winner of the prestigious Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award, 2014.