Dr Ben Goldsmith's research interests include Australian cinema and television, media production and globalisation, and media and cultural policy. He has worked at the University of Queensland, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology. He has written several books including Rating the Audience (with Mark Balnaves and Tom O'Regan), and The Film Studio (with Tom O’Regan), Local Hollywood (with Susan Ward and Tom O’Regan). He is also the co-editor (with Geoff Lealand) of the Directory of Australian and New Zealand Cinema, published in 2010.