Jonathan Lemkin is a filmmaker and screen writer whose credits include Devil’s Advocate, Showdown in Little Tokyo, Demolition Man, and A Big Disease with a Little Mess.
Thomas S. Frentz is Professor of Communication at the University of Arkansas. He is interested in how rhetorical and cultural practices are effected by psychology. He is coauthor, with Janice Hocker Rushing, of Projecting the Shadow: The Cyborg Hero in American Film (1995).
Janice Hocker Rushing is Professor of Communication at the University of Arkansas. She is interested in rhetorical criticism of the media, especially the expression of American values through myth in contemporary film. She is coauthor, with Thomas S. Frentz, of Projecting the Shadow: The Cyborg Hero in American Film (1995).
Lane Roth teaches the Psychology of TV and Film and Film, TV, and Film Genres at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. He is the author of Film Semiotics, Metz, and Leone’s Trilogy (1983).
Ilsa J. Bick is a child, adolescent, and forensic psychiatrist in Fairfax, Virginia. She has written many scholarly articles and lectured widely on psychoanalytic interpretations of science fiction literature, film, and television.
Gerald Early is Merle King Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences and Director of the African and Afro-American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. His latest book is One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture. He is a member of the advisory board for the Antioch Review.
Andrew Gordon is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Florida where he teaches courses in American Fiction since 1945, Jewish-American Fiction, and Science Fiction. His publications include An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytical Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer (1980) and an anthology (edited with Peter L. Rudnytsky) Psychoanalyses/Feminisms (2000) as well as numerous essays and reviews.
Frank Gormlie is Senior Teacher in Media Studies and English at James Gillespie’s High School in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has also served as an editor of the Media Education Journal. He is the author of Strange Garlands and Stray Pigs (1979).
Harvey Roy Greenberg is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and practices psychoanalysis privately in Manhattan. Dr. Greenberg writes on the articulation between psychoanalysis and popular culture, with particular emphasis on mainstream cinema. He is author of Screen Memories: Hollywood Cinema on the Psychoanalytic Couch (1993)
Patricia Pace is the author of numerous articles on writing and children including “Pictures of Innocence: The History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood” (Lion and the Unicorn) and “‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’: Children, Television, and ‘Mister Rogers’” (Lion and the Unicorn).
Stephen Jay Gould was Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University, curator for invertebrate paleontology at the university’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, and serves as the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. Stephen Jay Gould died in 2002.
Kirby Farrell is a Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and author of numerous books, most recently Post-Traumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretations in the Nineties (1998) and (Editor) Critical Essays on Shakespeare’s Richard II (1999).
Ora Gelley is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago and author of “A Response to Dominick LaCapra’s ‘Lanzmann’s Shoah’” (Critical Inquiry).
Gary Rosen is an Managing Editor of Commentary and the author recently of “‘Traffic’ and the War on Drugs” (Commentary).
Lois Menand is Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has been Contributing Editor of The New York Review of Books since 1994 and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His latest book, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (2001) recently won a Pulitzer prize.