How we work
Authors and Reviewers
Guides here are published under the editorial team rather than under individual bylines. This page explains how the work is divided and who is accountable for what.
Why guides carry a team byline
Every guide on this site is produced by the EconomiaX editorial team and published under that name. No guide is the work of one person: research, drafting, source checking, and copy editing are separate stages handled by different people.
We publish this way because the accountability we care about is procedural. What matters for a publication of this kind is that a claim was checked by someone other than the person who wrote it, against a source that a reader can also consult.
Where a guide relies on a single account, or where our reviewers disagreed about how to label a detail, the guide says so on the page.
How the work is divided
Research and drafting
Guide desk
Selects films, assembles the source base, and writes the first draft of each guide. Responsible for locating first-hand material: commentary tracks, archive finding aids, technical journals, published screenplays, and interview records.
Also responsible for the timestamps in each guide, including identifying which version of a film is being described.
Verification
Review desk
Checks every factual claim in a draft against the cited source, and applies the confirmed or interpretation label independently of the writer. A guide cannot be published if a claim cannot be traced to a source at one of the levels set out in our methodology.
The review desk also handles incoming correction reports and decides whether a change is a clarification or a correction of the record.
Editing and standards
Copy desk
Responsible for clarity, consistency of terminology, spoiler labeling, and compliance with our position on quotation and copyright. Confirms that each guide states what it is about to reveal before revealing it.
Maintains the glossary and the definitions the guides rely on.
Areas we cover, and areas we are cautious about
Our strongest coverage is in American and British studio filmmaking from the 1930s onward, in animation, and in genre cinema of the 1970s to the present, where production documentation is comparatively abundant and accessible.
We are more cautious with films whose primary documentation is not in English, and with material where our sources are translations. Guides in that position say so, and we prefer to publish a shorter guide with solid sourcing than a longer one built on secondary summaries.
We do not claim specialist authority in film theory, and our guides avoid theoretical argument. The work here is documentary: what is on screen, when, and what the record says about why.
Contacting the team
Corrections and documented sources reach the review desk fastest at [email protected]. Please include the guide title and, if possible, the source you are pointing us toward.
Our handling of reported errors is described in the corrections policy.