Noel Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at Liverpool Hope University. He has written several books on aspects of children's film, family entertainment, and animation, including Contemporary Hollywood Animation (2021), The Children's Film: Genre, Nation and Narrative (2017), British Children's Cinema (2016), and The Hollywood Family Film (2012). He is also co-editor of Toy Story: How Pixar Reinvented the Animated
Feature (2018) and Family Films in Global Cinema: The World Beyond Disney (2015).