Todd Berliner, Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, teaches film aesthetics, film narration and American cinema. He is the author of Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema (University of Texas Press, 2010) and many articles and book chapters. Professor Berliner was the founding chairman of UNCW’s Film Studies Department and the recipient of two Fulbright Scholar awards, including the Laszlo Orszagh Distinguished Chair in American Studies.
Edward Buscombe was formerly Head of Publishing at the British Film Institute. His books include Stagecoach (1992), The Searchers (2000) and Unforgiven (2004), all for the ‘BFI Film Classics’ series. He has also edited the anthologies The Screen Education Reader: Cinema, Television, Culture (Columbia University Press, 1993) and British Television: A Reader (Oxford University Press, 2000). His most recent publication is Injuns!: Native Americans in the Movies (Reaktion Books, 2006).
Deborah A. Carmichael is the managing editor of the Journal of Popular Culture. She is the editor of The Landscape of Hollywood Westerns: Ecocriticism in an American Film Genre (University of Utah Press, 2006) and co-editor of All-Stars and Movie Stars: Sports in Film and History (University Press of Kentucky, 2008). She has also published on film exhibition history, Depression-era movies, and documentaries.
Hye Seung Chung is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Colorado State University. She is the author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance (Temple University Press, 2006) and Kim Ki-duk (University of Illinois Press, 2012) as well as numerous articles on Korean cinema and Asian Americans in U.S. popular culture. Her writing has appeared in such journals as Asian Cinema, Cinema Journal, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, Journal of Film and Video, Journal of Popular Film and Television and Post Script.
Stephane Dunn is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Co-Director of the Cinema, Television, & Emerging Media Studies Program at Morehouse College, Atlanta. She is the author of
Baad ‘Bitches’ & Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films (University of Illinois Press, 2008), and her writings about film and contemporary cultural politics have appeared in periodicals such as the
Chronicle of Higher Education, CNN.com, Ms., Bright Lights Film Journal, Screening Noir, Fire: Multimedia Journal of Black Cultural Studies, and books, including
Disco Divas: Women and Popular Culture in the 1970s (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) and
Communicating Marginalized Masculinities (Routledge, 2012).
Jeff Jaeckle holds a doctorate from the University of Texas-Austin and is currently Instructor of Composition/Literature at Portland Community College. His scholarship on film aesthetics, film adaptation and American cinema has appeared and has appeared in Film Quarterly, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, MLA Approaches to Teaching Jack London and the Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism.
Sarah Kozloff is Professor of Film at Vassar College. She is the author of Invisible Storytellers: Voice-Over Narration in American Fiction Film (University of California Press, 1988) and Overhearing Film Dialogue (University of California Press, 2000). Her articles have appeared in Cinema Journal, Literature/Film Quarterly, Journal of American Culture, Style, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Cinesonic: The World of Sound in Film (AFTRS, 1999), the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (Routledge, 2005), American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes and Variations (Rutgers UP, 2006) and From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings (Rodopi, 2006).
Thomas Leitch is Professor of English and Director of Film Studies at the University of Delaware. He is the author of What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and Interpretation (Penn State University Press, 1986), Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games (University of Georgia Press, 1991), The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock (Facts on File, 2002), Crime Films (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Perry Mason (Wayne State University Press, 2005), and Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone With the Wind to The Passion of the Christ (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), and, with Leland Poague, A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
Donna Peberdy is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Southampton Solent University, UK. She is the author of Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011) and co-editor of Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversities (IB Tauris, 2013). Her articles have appeared in the New Review of Film and Television Studies, Men & Masculinities, Celebrity Studies, Screening the Past, Pretty People: Movie Stars of the 1990s (Rutgers University Press, 2012), Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema (Wayne State University Press, 2012) and The Blackwell Companion to Film Noir (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), and Behind the Silver Screen: Acting (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
Vivian Sobchack is Professor of Critical Studies in the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at UCLA and is on the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute. She is the author of
The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience (Princeton University Press, 1992),
Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film (Rutgers University Press, 1997) and
Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture (University of California Press, 2004), and the editor of
The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television, and the Modern Event (Routledge, 1996) and
Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change (University of Minnesota Press, 1999). Her essays have appeared in the
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Film Comment, Camera Obscura, Film Quarterly and
Representations.
Jeremy Strong is Head of Higher Education at Writtle College, Essex, where he is also a Reader in Film & Literature. Chair of the Association of Adaptation Studies, he is widely published on adaptation, and is the author of Educated Tastes: Food, Drink and Connoisseur Culture (University of Nebraska Press, 2011).
François Thomas is Professor of Film Studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. A regular contributor to Positif, he has also published in numerous French film magazines and anthologies, especially on Alain Resnais, Orson Welles, and sound and music in film. In English, his work on Welles appears in Perspectives on Citizen Kane (G. K. Hall, 1996), Cinesonic: Cinema and the Sound of Music (AFTRS, 2000), and Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane: A Casebook (Oxford University Press, 2004); he also is the co-author of Orson Welles at Work (Phaidon, 2008).
Paul Wells is Director of Animation in The Animation Academy at Loughborough University. He has published widely in the field of animation, including Understanding Animation (Routledge, 1998), Animation and America (Rutgers University Press, 2002), Animation: Genre and Authorship (Wallflower Press, 2002), Fundamentals of Animation (AVA Publishing, 2006), Re-Imagining Animation (AVA Publishing, 2008) and The Animated Bestiary (Rutgers University Press, 2009). Paul is also an established writer and director for radio, TV, film and theatre, and has recently completed a documentary, An Animated Utopia: The Life and Achievement of John Halas (BAF/AA, 2012) and a script in production, The Oil Kid (Render AS/AA, 2013), as well as conducting consultancies and workshops on short film and features worldwide, based on his book, Scriptwriting (AVA Publishing, 2007). He is also Chair of the Association of British Animation Collections (ABAC).
Brian Wilson is a writer and filmmaker living in Carbondale, IL. He has taught at Washington University in St. Louis, and has contributed to a number of journals, including Film International, CineAction and Senses of Cinema. His entry on Clouzot’s The Mystery of Picasso appears in Directory of World Cinema: France (Intellect, 2013).