Luke McKernan is a film historian with a particular interest in film audiences and the sociological study of cinema. He has been collecting examples of eyewitness testimony of cinemagoing for many years through the website https://picturegoing.com. His book Charles Urban: Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897-1925 (Exeter, 2013) won the 2014 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award.

Based on original research from Charles Urban's own papers, this is the first biography of this influential film maker and innovator. A historical study of the development of the non-fiction film in Britain and America in the early years of cinema. Winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award 2014. 24 b&w illus. First time in paperback.