Acknowledgments

My editors and the staff at Routledge, Emily McCloskey, Simon Jacobs, and John Makowski for all their help and guidance and for believing in this project. Thanks also to Jack Stenner at University of Florida, Michael Smith at Pepperdine University, and Eric R. Williams at Ohio University for deep insights about the organization, structure, and content of this book.

The LA Film Studies Center and extended alums and friends—Jeremy Casper, Chris Krebsbach, Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran, Paul Yoder, Nathan White, Alex Swickard, Kris Young, and Sarah Duff.

My friends at The Alliance for giving me my first opportunity to tell stories—Peter Burgo, Bob and Joan Sanford, Miles Reese, Rob McCleland, and Heather Arment helped me greatly. Thanks to John Stumbo, Jordan Christopher, Pam Fogel, and Deb Gregory as well.

My family—Katie, John K. Bucher, Cathie Bucher, Josh Bucher, Matt Bucher, Jordan Bucher, Henry Bucher, Arlo Bucher, Tony Reyes, Luanne Reyes, Aaron Reyes, Alicia Reyes, Caleb Reyes.

Dr. Kim Walker, Dave Anderson, Jim and Ashley Krueger, and all my friends at Pacifica.

Special thanks to those who gave of their time to participate in the book …

Chris Milk, Tye Sheridan, Nikola Todorovic, Chris Edwards, Ted Schilowitz, Angela Haddad, Rob Bredow at LucasFilm, Noah Nelson and the No Proscenium Podcast, Annie Lesser, Keight Leighn, Mark Cordell Holmes, Larry Rosenthal, Liz Markman, Jonathan Krusell and Brian Rose at Google, Paul Debevec, Jessica Brillhart, Jess Shamash and Pete Billington at Oculus, Paul Meyhoefer and Kevin Cruz at JK Imaging Ltd., Sarah Hill at StoryUp, Heather Brenners, Matt Celia, Robert Watts, Steve Peters, Adam Orr, Brian Allgeier, Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Doug Liman, Melissa Wallack, Matt Thompson, Robyn Tong Gray, Tai Crosby at SilVR Thread, and the entire crew at Jaunt VR.