Michael Chanan is a documentary filmmaker, author of books on both cinema and music, and Professor of Film and Video at Roehampton University, London. He has written a history of cinema in Cuba (second edition as Cuban Cinema, 2004), and made several films in Cuba in the 1980s for Channel Four. His last book is The Politics of Documentary (BFI, 2007), and his latest film is called The American Who Electrified Russia (2009).
Yun-Chung Chen is Assistant Professor at the Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include innovation studies, culture-creative industries, and urban studies. He has a forthcoming book entitled Multinational Corporations in China: Dynamic Interactions between Global Innovation Networks and is writing a book with Mirana Szeto entitled Making Cultural Clusters in Hong Kong: The Co-Development of Cultural Industries and Urban Space.
Sharon Hayashi is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Film at York University, Toronto. Her current research interests include the uses of new media by new social movements and the architecture of cinema. She has published articles on Japanese pink cinema and the travel films of Shimizu Hiroshi, and is currently completing a book on the transition to sound in Japanese wartime cinema.
Jonathan Haynes is Professor of English at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. He is the coauthor (with Onookome Okome) of Cinema and Social Change in West Africa and the editor of Nigerian Video Films. His articles on Nigerian and Ghanaian videos have appeared in a number of journals including Research in African Literatures, Africa, African Affairs, and Africa Today.
Jyotsna Kapur is an Associate Professor cross-appointed with the Departments of Cinema and Photography and Sociology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She is the author of Coining for Capital: Movies, Marketing and the Transformation of Childhood (Rutgers University Press, 2005) and recently co-edited with Sunny Yoon a special issue of Visual Anthropology on neoliberalism and Asian cinemas (vol. 22, no. 2/3, 2009). She is a founding coeditor of Studies in South Asian Film and Media and is currently finishing a book-length manuscript on the cultural politics of the “new global generation” that is supposedly coming of age in the midst of India’s recent turn to neoliberalism.
Bliss Cua Lim (PhD Cinema Studies, New York University) is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research and teaching center on Philippine cinema; temporality; postcolonial and feminist film theory; transnational horror and the fantastic; and taste cultures. Her work has appeared in the journals positions: east asia cultures critique, Camera Obscura, Velvet Light Trap, Asian Cinema, Spectator, and Art Journal; and in the book anthologies Film and Literature: A Reader, Geopolitics of the Visible: Essays on Philippine Film Cultures, and Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and the New Global Cinema. Her book, Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique, was published in fall 2009 from Duke University Press.
Richard Maxwell is Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. He has published widely on a range of topics: television in post-Franco Spain, Hollywood’s international dominance, media politics in the post 9/11 era, and on life under ever-expanding governmental and commercial surveillance. His current work on the environmental impact of media focuses on the environmental harms caused by media, information technologies, and electronics.
Sophia A. McClennen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, where she teaches inter-American literature, women’s world literature, media studies, and comparative cultural studies. Her books include The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time Language, and Space in Hispanic Literature (Purdue, 2004) and Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope (Duke, 2009). She has also co-edited, with Earl E. Fitz, a volume on Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America (Purdue, 2004) and, with Henry James Morello, a volume entitled Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror (Purdue, 2010).
Eileen R. Meehan is a political economist specializing in media and culture. She is the author of Why TV Is Not Our Fault and numerous essays on corporate structure, synergy, and market structure. With Ellen Riordan, she co-edited Sex and Money: Feminism and Political Economy in Media Studies, which has been translated into Korean. Along with Janet Wasko and Mark Phillips, she co-edited Dazzled by Disney?: The Global Disney Audiences Project. Meehan teaches in the Department of Radio-Television and the Graduate Programs in Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Toby Miller is Professor of English, Sociology, and Women’s Studies at UC Irvine and director of the University’s Program in Film and Visual Culture. A selection of his books in English are: A Companion to Film Theory (1999, edited); Film and Theory: An Anthology (2000, edited); Globalization and Sport: Playing the World (2001); Sportsex (2001); Global Hollywood (2001); A Companion to Cultural Studies (2001, edited); Cultural Policy (2002); Television Studies (2002, edited); Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader (2003, edited); Television Studies: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies (2003, 5 volumes edited); Spyscreen: Espionage on Film and T V from the 1930s to the 1960s (2003); Global Hollywood 2 (2005); Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a Neoliberal Age (2007); and Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention (2008).
Jenna Ng was awarded her PhD in Film Studies from University College London in 2009, with a dissertation on the changing experiences and conceptualizations of time in digital cinema. She has written on a variety of subjects, including cinephilia, time, memory, and cinema and the city, and her work has been published in journals such as Rouge, 16:9, and Cinemascope.
Deirdre O’Neill is the coordinator of Inside Film, which teaches film as a radical pedagogic tool to prisoners in the UK. She is a PhD student at the University of Ulster, and co-director of the feature length documentary, Listen to Venezuela.
Martin O’Shaughnessy is Professor of Film Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Jean Renoir (Manchester University Press, 2000), The New Face of Political Cinema (Berghahn, 2007), and La Grande Illusion (I.B. Tauris, 2009). He is the coeditor of Cinéma et Engagement (L’Harmattan, 2005). He has written widely on a range of aspects of classic and contemporary French film.
Mirana M. Szeto is Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. She has published in journals like Interventions and Concentric, is working on a book entitled Critical Theory and Its Discontents in Colonial Cultural Politics, and her current research is on decolonizing neoliberalism and China and Hong Kong cinema, literature, and cultural policy studies.
Deborah Tudor received her doctorate from Northwestern University in 1992. She chaired the Department of Cinema and Photography at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 2006 to December 2008 and is currently the Associate Dean of the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts there. Publications include work in Cinema Journal, Jump Cut, The Democratic Communique, Cineaction, and Afterimage, as well as a book on sports and cinema and a chapter on British women filmmakers for the second edition of Fires Were Started, published in 2006. Dr. Tudor is currently preparing a book manuscript on British cinema, and articles on digital cinema, gender, and war media.
Keith B. Wagner is a PhD candidate in Film Studies and Political Theory at King’s College, University of London. He also holds an M.Phil degree from the University of Cambridge and has published work with Film International and has articles under review with Historical Materialism and positions: east asia cultures critique. Keith has previously taught at the University of Rhode Island and London South Bank University.
Mike Wayne is a Professor in Film and Television Studies at Brunel University (UK) and co-director of the feature-length documentary Listen to Venezuela. Among his books are Marxism and Media Studies: Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends and Political Film: The Dialectics of Third Cinema.
Ying Xiao is an Assistant Professor of Chinese film and visual arts at the University of Florida. She recently finished a PhD dissertation on sound track and contemporary Chinese cinema in Cinema Studies at New York University.
Xudong Zhang is Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese and Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at New York University. His books include Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and New Chinese Cinema; Whither China: Intellectual Politics of Contemporary China; and Postmodernism and China (co-edited with Arif Dirlik), all published by Duke University Press.