Who's Who in Research: Film Studies

WHO’S WHO IN RESEARCH

FILM STUDIES

WHO’S WHO IN RESEARCH

FILM STUDIES

intellect Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA

First published in the UK in 2013 by Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS 16 3JG, UK

First published in the USA in 2013 by Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Copyright © 2013 Intellect Ltd

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ISBN 9781841504964

Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries and collaboration between researchers is becoming more and more common. Staying up to date and relevant requires keeping abreast of the international currents of thought in one’s field. But when one’s colleagues span the globe, it is not always easy to know who’s who – or what kind of research they are conducting.

Intellect’s Who’s Who in Research series was designed with the intention of increasing the scholarly community’s self-knowledge and facilitating it to come together and to collaborate. As Intellect has grown as a publisher specializing in the creative arts and popular culture, so, necessarily, has its community of authors. This book series opens up a door to this thriving scholarly community by providing an easy, ‘one-stop-shop’ access to the names and research interests of the leading academics who have published in Intellect’s growing portfolio of journals.

We have split the book series into five volumes, each covering one of Intellect’s main subject areas. This volume features comprehensive profiles of scholars in the area of film studies studies. Concise yet detailed listings include each academic’s name, institution, a short biography, current research interests and a list of their articles published with Intellect.

Another important feature of this volume is an innovative and user-friendly index, based on the keywords that scholars have used in their articles. By combining the keywords chosen by a community of scholars focused on a specific topic, we hope to offer a taxonomy of keywords for the subject area as a whole, as well as provide a useful method for discovering the people writing on a particular topic, and where that work can be found.

We believe these volumes will be an invaluable resource for scholars, hiring committees, libraries, and would-be collaborators across the arts and humanities.

Masoud Yazdani

Publisher

Maimunah

United Kingdom

Keywords Arisan!, non-normative sexualities, hetero-normativity, Detik Terakhir, Tentang Dia.

Maimunah is a lecturer in Faculty of Humanities, Airlangga University, Surabaya-Indonesia. This article is part of her thesis (master by research) at the University of Sydney (2008). She teaches Film and Literature and Southeast Asian Literature.

Indonesian Queer and the Centrality of Heteronormative Family, Asian Cinema, 21.2, 114–134.

Richard Abel

University of Michigan, Department of Screen Arts & Cultures, 6419 North Quad, 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109–1285, United States of America

Keywords early American cinema, Americanization, French silent cinema

Richard Abel is Robert Altman Collegiate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures at the University of Michigan. His latest book, Americanizing the Movies and 'Movie-Mad' Audiences, 1910–1914 (California), was published in 2006. Forthcoming books include Early Cinema and the 'National', co-edited with Giorgio Bertellini and Rob King (John Libbey), and Menus for Movie Land: Newspapers and the Movies, 1911–1915.

Frame Stories for Writing the History of French Silent Cinema, Studies in French Cinema, 2.1, 5–13.

Anders Wilhelm Aberg

Institutionen för språk och litteratur, Linnéuniversitetet, 351 95 Växjö, Sweden

Keywords Swedish cinema, Vilgot Sjöman, televised fiction, Swedish children’s films

Anders Wilhelm Åberg is an Associate Professor in Film Studies at Linnaeus University of Kalmar/Växjö. He has published a book on the Swedish film-maker Vilgot Sjöman and articles on televised fiction, film criticism and, more recently, on Swedish children’s films.

Art is born on the border of taboo: Vilgot Sjöman in Hollywood, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 1.2, 159–162.

May Adadol Ingawanij

University of Westminster, Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), London, United Kingdom

Keywords Thai cinema, cosmopolitanism, world cinema, cinephilia, ultra-modern

May Adadol Ingawanij joined CREAM after completing her Ph.D. at the London Consortium, University of London (with Prof. Laura Mulvey). Her thesis, ‘Hyperbolic Heritage: Bourgeois Spectatorship and Contemporary Thai Cinema’, traces the relationship between cinematic spectacle, royalism, and the Thai bourgeois fantasy of attaining global prestige by displaying ‘world-class Thainess’. The research has been published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (2007), South East Asia Research (2006), and Representing the Rural (2006). May is one of the organisers of the Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas conference, the main forum of intellectual exchange concerning the region’s cinemas held on a rotating basis in each of its countries. With Benjamin McKay she is editing the first volume of critical writings on the independent cinemas of the region.

Blissfully whose? Jungle pleasures, ultra-modernist cinema and the cosmopolitan Thai auteur, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 4.1, 37–54.

John Adams

University of Bristol, Department of Drama (Theatre, Film, Television), Cantocks Close, Bristol, BS8 1UP, UK

Keywords screen media, practice research, creative industries, documentation

John Adams is emeritus professor of Film & Screen Media Practice in the School of Arts (Drama) at the University of Bristol, where he taught for many years. He has produced and/or directed over 30 broadcast films and theatre productions, and co-founded and has chaired the Watershed Media Centre (Bristol) and the production company Watershed Television Ltd. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Media Practice, a member of the Higher Education Funding Council media and communications panel for the RAE 2008. He writes and lectures on practice-based approaches to screen media teaching and research. His current interests include film and creative industries policy, space and place in film, and screen acting and performance.

Book Reviews, Film International, 3.13, 50–51.

Adewole Adejayan

University of Ibadan, UI, Oyo State, Ibadan, Oyo State, P O Box 21156, Nigeria

Keywords soccer, fandom, Nollywood, cultural passage, Nigeria, Thierry Henry

Adewole Adejayan is a postgraduate student of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His current research explores the intersection between religion and African politics.

Thierry Henry as Igwe: Soccer fandom, christening and cultural passage in Nollywood, Journal of African Cinemas, 3.1, 25–42.

Mara Adelman

Seattle University, Department of Communication, 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, United States of America

Keywords social support systems, AIDS, communication, community development

Mara Adelman (Ph.D., University of Washington) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Seattle University. Her research is on social support systems and AIDS; communication and community development; intercultural communication; cross-cultural adaptation/expatriation; service industry and interpersonal communication; communication networks and restorative solitude. Dr Adelman is a co-author on four books and her research has been published in Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Journal of Health Communication and Journal of Marriage and the Family, among others.

Looking for Love in All the White Places: A Study of Skin Color Preferences on Indian Matrimonial and Mate-Seeking Websites, Studies in South Asian Film & Media, 1.1, 65–83.

Gbemisola Adeoti

Obafemi Awolowo University, Department of English, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Keywords governance, Nigeria, theatre, video, Yoruba

Gbemisola Adeoti (Ph.D.) is lecturer in the English Department of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. His areas of teaching and research include Dramatic Literature, Poetry, Literary History/Theory and Popular Culture. He is the author of Naked Soles, co-editor (with Bjorn Beckman) of Intellectuals and African Development and editor of Muse and Mimesis: Critical Perspectives on Ahmed Yerima’s Drama. He was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the School of English, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, from October to December 2008. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the African Humanities Program organized by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

Home video films and the democratic imperative in contemporary Nigeria, Journal of African Cinemas, 1.1, 35–56.

Gunhild Agger

Aalborg Universitet, Department of Culture and Global Studies, Kroghstraede 3, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark

Keywords Swedish and Danish TV crime fiction, best-seller, blockbuster, The Killing, emotion, gender and genre

Gunhild Agger, D. Phil, is Professor at Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. Agger has been the director of a cross-disciplinary research programme ‘Crime Fiction and Crime Journalism in Scandinavia’, funded by the Danish Research Council for Culture and Communication (cf. www.krimiforsk.aau.dk).Her current research areas include history of the media, national film, television drama, theory of genre and style. She is co-editor of Medieog Kommunikationsleksikon (2009). She has published a number of books and articles in Danish and co-edited Den skandinaviske krimi – bestseller og blockbuster (2010). Among her publications in English and French are Approaches to Scandinavian Crime Fiction (2010) http://www.krimiforsk.aau.dk/uk/awpaper/ Agger_ApproachesToScandinavienCrimeFiction.w15.pdf; ‘Histoire et culture médiatique: le roman policier historique en Scandinavie’ 2010; ‘The element of childhood. From children’s television to Dogme 95’.

Emotion, gender and genre: Investigating The Killing, Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, 9., 111–125.

Media and crime: Fiction and journalism, Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, 9., 3–7.

Wisdom Agorde

University of Alberta, Department of English and Film Studies, 3–89 Humanities Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E5, Canada

Keywords evangelical Pentecostal churches, ‘charismatic churches’, The Broken Wall, masculinity, hallelujah video films

Wisdom Agorde teaches at the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton. He specializes in Ghanaian dance, theatre and music. He has an MA in Drama from the University of Alberta and is currently working towards his Ph.D. in English and Film Studies in the Department of English. Wisdom teaches, choreographs and coordinates all the dances and the movements within the West African Music Ensemble course.

Creating the balance: hallelujah masculinities in a Ghanaian video film, Film International, 5.4, 51–63.

Louise Agostino

Keywords cinema, horror

Louise Agostino is an undergraduate enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts course at Melbourne University, Australia. Majoring in Cinema Studies, her interests lie with early horror and classic cinema. She enjoys writing about film and maintains a blog called Cupcake Suspiria. http://cupcakesuspiria.blogspot.com/

Reviews DVDs, Film Matters, 2.2, 37–40.

Talat Ahmed

Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of History, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, United Kingdom

Keywords art house, Bollywood, All-India Progressive Writers' Association (AIPWA), Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), Satyajit Ray

Talat Ahmed is a Teaching Fellow in Modern South Asian History at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) University of London. She has recently completed a Ph.D. on the Progressive Writers’ Movement in South Asia: 1932–56.

Realism in South Asian cinema, Film International, 4.24, 40–49.

Soo Jeong Ahn

Pusan National University, Ga-102, 474–5, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 143–858, Korea Sout

Keywords South Korean cinema, Kim Ki-Young, Shin Sang-Ok, auteur, Asian cinema

Soo Jeong Ahn is the author of the chapter ‘Bibliography of Works on Korean Cinema’ in New Korean Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2005). Her essays on film festivals and Asian cinema have been published in the anthologies What a Difference a Region Makes: Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in North-East Asia (Hong Kong University Press) and in Cinemas, Identities and Beyond (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). She currently teaches at the Pusan National University in South Korea.

Re-imagining the Past: Programming South Korean retrospectives at the Pusan International Film Festival, Film International, 6.4, 24–33.

Ian Aitken

Singtao Communication Centre, 224 Waterloo Rd, Rm.STC801, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Keywords Bazin, Grierson, Kracauer, Lukács, realism

Ian Aitken is the author of Film and Reform (Routledge, 1990), The Documentary Film Movement: An Anthology (EUP, 1998), Alberto Cavalcanti (Flicks, 2001), European Film Theory and Cinema (EUP, 2001), Realist Film Theory and Cinema (MUP, 2006), and The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film (ed.) (Routledge, 2006). He is Associate Professor in Film Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, and Senior Research Fellow in Film Studies at De Montfort University.

The European realist tradition, Studies in European Cinema, 3.3, 175–188.

Physical reality: the role of the empirical in the film theory of Siegfried Kracauer, John Grierson, André Bazin and Georg Lukács, Studies in Documentary Film, 1.2, 105–122.

José Alaniz

University of Washington, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Seattle, United States of America

Keywords Sokurov, death, excess, nature, C.D. Friedrich

José Alaniz is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Comparative Literatures at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research interests include late/post-Soviet Russian literature and culture, cinema, death and dying, disability, eco-criticism and comics. He is currently writing a book on comics in Russia.

‘Nature’, illusion and excess in Sokurov's Mother and Son, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, 2.2, 183–204.

Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla

Keywords corporeality, dance, gesture, silence, subjectivity

Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla completed his Ph.D. dissertation in 2004 on questions of gender, sexuality and subjectivity in the Spanish and Mexican cinema of Luis Buñuel at the University of Cambridge. His research interests are in modern Spanish cultural studies and film studies, critical theory, and psychoanalytic criticism. His publications include articles on gender, visual arts and Buñuel. He spent the summer of 2005 in Paris researching the theme of Spanish economic emigration to France during the late Francoist period, and how this theme might be inscribed in Buñuel’s French films.

Body, silence and movement: Pina Bausch's Café M üller in Almodóvar's Hable con ella, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 2.1, 47–.

Dominic Alessio

The American International University in London, Queens Road, Richmond-Upon-Thames, London,

TW10 6JP, United Kingdom

Keywords science fiction, modernity, postcolonialism, extreme nationalism, India

Dominic Alessio is Professor of History and Director of the Study Abroad Programme at Richmond, The American International University in London. He was also a Visiting Research Fellow in the English and Media Department of the University of Northampton, UK, and formerly Vice Chair of the New Zealand Studies Association. His research interests relate to empire history, the far right, science fiction and New Zealand.

Nationalism and postcolonialism in Indian science fiction: Bollywood's Koi … Mil Gaya (2003), New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 5.3, 217–230.

Tabea Alexa Linhard

Washington University in St. Louis, Romance Languages and Literatures, Campus Box 1077, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States of America

Keywords confession, cultural memory, gender

Tabea Alexa Linhard is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War (University of Missouri Press 2005). Recent publications include ‘In the Precarious Exilic Realm: Edward Said’s Andalusian Journeys’, Humanism and the Global Hybrid: Reconstellating Edward Said and Jacques Derrida (eds. Assimina Karavanta and Nina Morgan, Cambridge Scholars P, 2009). ‘The Maps of Nostalgia: Juana Salabert’s Velódromo de invierno’, Revista Hispánica Moderna, 60.1 (June 2007): 72–93 and ‘Between Hospitality and Hostility: Immigration in Contemporary Spanish Culture’, MLN. 122.2 (March 2007): 400–22. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript on Jewishexile in Spain during Word War II.

Unheard confessions and transatlantic connections: Y tu mamá también and Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 5.1&2, 43–56.

Samirah Alkassim

Independent

Keywords alterity, media signifier, accented cinema, installations

Samirah Alkassim is an independent researcher and filmmaker with several years experience living in Egypt and Jordan. Formerly head of the Film Program at the American University in Cairo, and Film Production Workshops Coordinator at the Royal Film Commission of Amman, Samirah currently resides in the US. Current projects include research on Ramadan television serials, and a documentary in progress about Palestinian artists in Jordan.

Cracking the monolith, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 1.3, 5–136.

Blaine Allan

Queen’s University, Film and Media, 160 Stuart Street, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada

Keywords Phillip Borsos, historical approaches to film, Canadian cinema, Canadian television, film authorship

Blaine Allan teaches film at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is working on a book about the Australia-born Canadian film-maker, Phillip Borsos. His research interests include historical approaches to film, Canadian film and television and film authorship.

Matters of life and debt, Studies in Documentary Film, 2.3, 257–277.

Julie K. Allen

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Keywords Henny Porten, national identity, discursive Germanisation, 1920s, Denmark

Julie K. Allen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on the cultural phenomena of national and gender identity construction in 19th and early 20th century Denmark and Germany. Her forthcoming book, Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen: The Godparents of Danish Cultural Modernity, examines the role of celebrities and the mass media in shaping European and Danish perceptions of modern Danish national and cultural identity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Where does 'die Asta' belong? The role of national identity in Asta Nielsen's German and Danish reception in the early 1920s, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 2.1, 13–26.

Sigurd Allern

Stockholm University, Department of Media and Communication, POB 27861, Stockholm, SE-11593, Sweden

Keywords political commentators, Norway, media history, journalism, elections

Sigurd Allern, D.Polit., is Professor of Journalism Studies at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway, and guest professor at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, Stockholm University, Sweden. He is project leader of the Nordic Research Network in Journalism Studies. His present research focuses on political communication and the relations between news organizations and professional sources. He has published several books and articles on news values, the relations between PR and journalism, political scandals and the political economy of news production.

From party agitators to independent pundits The changed historical roles of newspaper and television journalists in Norwegian election campaigns, Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, 8.1, 49–67.

Mark Allinson

University of Leicester, United Kingdom

Keywords thriller, auteur, authorship, Bajo Ulloa

Mark Allinson is Professor of Spanish at the University of Leicester, UK. His research interests are in modern and contemporary Spanish culture, particularly cinema, drama and subcultures. He has published three books, A Spanish Labyrinth: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar (London & NY, 2001), ¡Te toca! A New Communicative Spanish Course (London, 2002), and Spanish Cinema: A Student Guide (coauthored with Barry Jordan). Other publications include chapters on Spanish youth cultures and punk, articles on films of Juanma Bajo Ulloa and Juan Antonio Bardem, and another on the use of simulations in the language classroom. His book on Almodóvar has been updated and translated into Spanish and is also available as an e-book.

Editorial, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 1.1, 3–4.

Deborah Allison

City Screen, Cinema Programming

Keywords Magnum Force, The Enforcer, sudden impact, The Dead Pool, Clint Eastwood

Deborah Allison is a London-based cinema programmer. She holds a doctorate in Film Studies from the University of East Anglia, and her writing has appeared in an international range of books and journals, including Film Criticism, Film Quarterly, Senses of Cinema, Screen, and The Schirmer Encyclopaedia of Film.

Courting the critics/assuring the audiences: The modulation of Dirty Harry in a changing cultural climate, Film International, 5.5, 17–31.

Stephen Frears Master of hi-lo culture, Film International, 5.3, 35–53.

Odeon Cinemas 2: From J. Arthur Rank to the Multiplex Allen Eyles (2005), Film International, 5.2, 79–80.

Book Reviews, Film International, 7.2, 74–83.

Book Reviews, Film International, 8.1, 78–88.

Luisela Alvaray

DePaul University, College of Communication, 1 E Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604, USA

Keywords film industries, co-productions, globalization, deterritorialization, transculturalism

Luisela Alvaray specializes in Latin American and transnational cinemas. She teaches courses on Latin American cinema, global media, documentary studies, film history, and media and cultural studies. Her articles have appeared in Cinema Journal, Film & History, Emergences, Objeto Visual (Caracas), Cinemais (Rio de Janeiro) and Film-Historia (Barcelona). She is a contributor to the book Latin American Melodrama (Darlene Sadlier, ed., 2009) and the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (2008) and has published two books in Spanish – A la luz del proyector: Itinerario de una espectadora (2002) and Las versiones fílmicas: los discursos que se miran (1994).

Are we global yet? New challenges to defining Latin American cinema, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 8.1, 69–86.

Michihiro Ama

University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Languages, ADM 287, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508, United States of America

Keywords funerary Buddhism, death rituals, Coffinman (Nkanfu Nikki), Okuribito/ Departures

Michihiro Ama is currently an assistant professor of Japanese at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He has a forthcoming monograph entitled Immigrants to the Pure Land: Modernization, Acculturation, and Globalization of Shin 1898–1941 (University of Hawaii Press, 2011).

Transcending death in Departures (Okuribito): A case study of film, literature and Buddhism in modern Japan, Journal of Japanese & Korean Cinema, 2.1, 35–50.

Ikuho Amano

United Kingdom

Keywords The Taste of Tea, Ishii Katsuhito, Japanese drama, jissha, fantasy

Ikuho Amano is a contributor to Asian Cinema.

Film review: The Taste of Tea (2004), directed by Ishii Katsuhito, Asian Cinema, 21.1, 215–218.

Hector Amaya

University of Virginia, Media Studies, United States of America

Keywords race, gender, sexuality, Bildungsroman, psychoanalysis, Mexican cinema

Hector Amaya is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Previously, he taught in the Communication Studies Department at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. His research, writing, and teaching engages with the areas of global media, Latin American film, comparative media studies, and Latinas/os media studies. His first book, Screening Cuba: Film Criticism as Political Performance During the Cold War (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010) is a comparative study of film reception of Cuban film, cultural criticism, and citizenship in Cuba and the United States from the 1960s to 1985. His second book, currently under review, is titled Citizenship Excess: Latinas/os, Transnationalism, Media, and the Ethics of Nation. This book analyses Bush-era nativisms targeting Latinas/os and the way nativism shapes current political and media cultures.

Bridges between the divide: The female body in Y tu Mamá también and Machuca, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 4.1, 47–62.

Amores perros and racialised masculinities in contemporary Mexico, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 5.3, 201–216.

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Department of Humanities, Mayaguez, PR 00681–9264, Puerto Rico

Keywords bisexuality, queer theory, ludic structures

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio is the author of the memoir, Eros: A Transcultural Journey, and the guest editor of two issuesof The Journal of Bisexuality, ‘Women and Bisexuality’ and ‘Plural Desires’ on women and polyamory respectively, which are available as books from Haworth Press. She has published in numerous professional journals, including VIA, DisClosure, and Women and Language. Her study of women’s playwriting in the twentieth century The ‘Weak’ Subject (1998), has been translated into Italian as Due in una (2003). She is the translator of her father’s collection of poems A Lake for the Heart/Il lago del cuore published in 2005.

Bisexual games and emotional sustainability in Ferzan Özpetek's queer films, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 2.3, 163–174.

Lars Pynt Andersen

University of Southern Denmark, Department of Marketing and Management, Denmark

Keywords rhetorical analysis, advertising, modality, lyricism, retrospective revaluation

Lars Pynt Andersen is Associate Professor at the Department of Marketing and Management, University of Southern Denmark. His Ph.D., from the Copenhagen Business School, was on the subject of genres and rhetorical strategies of Danish TV advertising. Current research themes are radio advertising, the construction of the Tween consumer culture, and the idea of an attention economy.

A rhetorical analysis of Village, Short Film Studies, 1.1, 127–130.

Gillian B. Anderson

Keywords film music, The Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith, Joseph Carl Breil, Douglas Fairbanks, Mortimer Wilson, The Thief of Baghdad

Gillian B. Anderson is an orchestral conductor and musicologist. She has reconstructed and performed with orchestras in the US, South America and Europe the original scores for 33 films made between 1898 and 1929. Her recording of Nosferatu is avaliable from BMG classics. A CD and video of Carmen (DeMille, 1915) is avaliable from VAI, and a DVD of (Christiansen, 1923) from Criterioin Films. Most recently in collaboration with Thomas L. Riis and Ronald H. Sadoff she summarized the state of research and practice in an issue of American Music devoted to film music. (Vol. 22, No.1, Spring 2004, p.1–13).

Editorial, Film International, 3.13, 3–3.

A Consummation and a Harbinger of the Future: Mortimer Wilson, Film International, 3.13, 32–39.

Kevin Anderson

Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Keywords short film scriptwriting, trans-generational grief, World War I

Kevin Anderson has worked as a writer, director and cinematographer for many years in the Australian film and television industry. A multi-award winning cinematographer, he currently teaches Film and Video Production, Screenwriting and Cinematography at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.

The way home:concealment and revelation in The War Is Over, Short Film Studies, 1.1, 43–46.

Subjective and objective point of view as metaphor in Mitko Panov’s With

Raised Hands, Short Film Studies, 2.1, 33–36.

Lars Gustaf Andersson

Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden

Keywords experimental film, amateurism, Swedish cinema, film historiography, Peter Weiss

Lars Gustaf Andersson is professor in Film Studies at Lund University, Sweden. Andersson and Sundholm hold a three-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (2010–2012) for research on Filmverkstan. Together with Astrid Söderbergh Widding they have published A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture: From Early Animation to Video Art (Eastleigh/Stockholm: John Libbey/National Library of Sweden 2010).

Amateur and avant-garde: minor cinemas and public sphere in 1950s Sweden, Studies in European Cinema, 5.3, 207–218.

Editorial: Film Workshops in Europe, Studies in European Cinema, 8.3, 167–169.

The cultural policies of minor cinema practices: The Swedish film workshop during its first years 1973–76, Studies in European Cinema, 8.3, 183–194.

Women & Experimental Filmmaking Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wright Wexman (eds) (2005), Film International, 5.2, 62–63.

DVD Reviews, Film International, 6.2, 60–66.

DVD Reviews, Film International, 6.3, 60–75.

DVD Reviews, Film International, 6.5, 70–74.

Book Reviews, Film International, 6.5, 75–89.

Book Reviews, Film International, 7.5, 71–90.

Joe Andrew

Keele University, School of Humanities, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, United Kingdom

Keywords narrative, gender, identity, Bakhtin, Lotman, cinema, Russia

Joe Andrew is Professor of Literature and Culture at Keele University, where he has worked since 1972. His main research interests are nineteenth-century Russian literature, feminist approaches to literature, women writers, and cinema. He has published numerous articles in these fields, as well as several monographs, including Narrative & Desire in Russian Literature, 1822–1849: The Feminine & the Masculine (Macmillan, 1993), Russian Women’s Shorter Fiction: An Anthology, 1835–1860 (Oxford University Press, 1996) and Narrative, Space and Gender in Russian Fiction1846–1903. He has published a number of studies on Russian film. He is also Chair of the Neo-Formalist Circle, and was co-editor of its journal, Essays in Poetics. Over the last decade the Neo-Formalist Circle has organized a number of special conferences, on Pushkin, Platonov, Gogol, Chekhov, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

Birth equals rebirth?Space, narrative, and gender in the Commisar, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, 1.1, 27–44.

Anita Angelone

College of William & Mary, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187–8795, United States of America

Keywords Italian cinema, fiction and non-fiction, environmental criticism, theories of place and space, Pier Paolo Pasolini

Anita Angelone is assistant professor of Italian Studies at the College of William & Mary. Her research interests include both fiction and non-fiction cinema in Italy, Italian literary figurations of the city, environmental criticism, and theories of place and space. She has published a book chapter on Pier Paolo Pasolini, as well as articles on topics ranging from the cinema of the economic boom to 19th-century serial novelist Carolina Invernizio in two leading journals in the field, Italian Culture and Italian Studies.

Other visions: Contemporary Italian documentary cinema as counter-discourse, Studies in Documentary Film, 5.2–3, 83–89.

Talking trash: Documentaries and Italy’s ‘garbage emergency’, Studies in Documentary Film, 5.2–3, 145–156.

William Anselmi

University of Alberta, MLCS, Canada

Keywords Irshad Manji, post-politics, optical personage, performative radicalism, resistant ethnicity

William Anselmi, Professor of Italian and Italian Canadian studies, teaches at the University of Alberta in the department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies. He has co-authored several books on ethnicity, multiculturalism/biculturalism, representation, the media, and social changes resultant from new technologies of communication in the age of the image. He was a long-standing collaborator with the Montreal-based ViceVersa, the first example of a transcultural magazine in Canada. He is a co-founding and co-managing editor of the online open-access journal Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.

Performative Radicalism in contemporary Canadian documentary film, Film International, 7.1, 44–53.

Hector Arkomanis

Keywords architecture, design, cinema

Hector Arkomanis teaches History of Architecture in London Metropolitan University, Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design. He also teaches a course called Cinema and the City.

Film Reviews, Film International, 10.1, 75–84.

Kay Armatage

University of Toronto, Cinema Studies Institute, Innis College, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5S 1J5, United States of America

Keywords open-air screenings, community, FESPACO, Film Festival Jakmel

Kay Armatage is a Professor at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed to Cinema Studies Institute, Innis College and The Women and Gender Studies Institute. She is a member of the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama. Author of The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 2003), Co-editor of Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), Editor of Equity and How to Get It (Toronto: Inanna Press, 1999) and author of articles on women filmmakers, feminist theory and Canadian cinema in books, magazines and journals.

Screenings by Moonlight, Film International, 6.4, 34–40.

Sidebar: Travelling Projectionist Films, Film International, 6.4, 41–42.

Alejandra Armendariz

University Rey Juan Carlos, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Fuenlabrada Campus, Camino del Molino s/n 28943 Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain

Keywords Iguchi Nami, Tanada Yuki, sexual difference, gender representation, transgressive female

Alejandra Armendáriz graduated in Audio-visual Communication from the Navarra University in Spain and has studied Japanese language and culture at Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy. She was awarded a Monbukagakusho Scholarship for postgraduates to attend Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo as a researcher for the 2008–2010 academic years. She received a Master's degree in Cinema, Television and Interactive Media from University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain and is enrolled in the Ph.d. Programme at the same university. Her research fields are Japanese contemporary cinema, Japanese women filmmakers and feminist film theory.

An alternative representation of sexual difference in contemporary Japanese cinema made by women directors, Journal of Japanese & Korean Cinema, 3.1, 21–35.

Richard Armstrong

Keywords film journalism, banned words, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pat Hobby stories, Lost Generation, Hollywood, 1930s

Richard Armstrong writes on film for publications on three continents, including Film Quarterly, Cineaste and Metro. His second book - Understanding Realism - appeared from the British Film Institute in 2005. He is a major contributor to the Rough Guide to Film (2007), and is currently researching a Ph.D. on grief in modern cinema at Cambridge University.

Bad Language: Some offensive words in contemporary film criticism, Film International, 4.20, 10–11.

A Pocketful of Angles: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Pat Hobby Stories, Film International, 4.20, 20–29.

Deadline at Dawn: The film criticism of Judith Williamson, Film International, 4.20, 38–43.

The Best Years of Our Lives: Planes of innocence and experience, Film International, 5.6, 83–91.

Robert Arnett

Old Dominion University, Department of Communication and Theatre Arts, Norfolk, VA 23529, United States of America

Keywords screenplays, film criticism, Leslie Rabb, RPM International

Robert Arnett has published in Creative Screenwriting, Film Criticism, Quarterly Review of Film and Video and The Journal of Popular Film and Television. He has written numerous screenplays and his work is represented by Leslie Rabb at RPM International. He teaches screenwriting and film history at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.

REVIEWS, Journal of Screenwriting, 3.1, 119–128.

Anna Arnman

Film Studies, Lund University, Sweden

Keywords monster fiction, Clive Barker

Anna Arnman, Ph.D. in Film Studies at Lund University, Sweden. She has written essays and reviews to several anthologies, including The Man with the Movie Camera (Lund: Absalon, 1999) and Popular Fictions (Stockholm/Stenhag: Symposion 2000). She published her dissertation (in Swedish) Hellraiser: On Clive Barkers Film at Ellerstroms publishing company in 2005. She is also a writer, editor and senior lecturer in film studies. Arnman is for the moment working on a project on monster fiction together with Anna Höglund.

Editorial, Film International, 3.17, 3–3.

Andrew Asibong

Birkbeck University of London, Department of European Cultures and Languages, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD, United Kingdom

Keywords kinship, community, fantasy, stigma, normality, psychosocial metamorphosis, reconfiguration

Andrew Asibong is a lecturer in the Department of European Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck, University of London, and the co-director of Birkbeck Research in Representations of Kinship and Community (BRRKC). He is the author of François Ozon (Manchester/New York: Manchester University Press, 2008) and the co-editor of Marie NDiaye: l’étrangeté à l’oeuvre (Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2009), and has published numerous articles on film and French/francophone literature.

Unrecognizable bonds: Bleeding kinship in Pedro Almodóvar and Gregg Araki, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 7.3, 185–196.

James Aston

The Univerity of Hull, Department of Humanities, Lecturer in Film, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, United Kingdom

Keywords spectator, reflexivity, apocalypse, cinematic reality, Time of the Wolf

James Aston is a lecturer at the University of Hull. He teaches extensively on the undergraduate film studies course and is also a member of the Millenniumism Centre at Liverpool Hope University. Recent work includes the apocalyptic film pre-and-post millennium and cinematic representations of the past. He is also co-editing a book on sex and television.

The (Un) spectacle of the real: Forwarding an active spectator in Michael Haneke's Le temps du loup/Time of the Wolf (2003), Studies in European Cinema, 7.2, 109–122.

Peter Atkinson

University of Central Lancashire, Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, Preston, PR1 2HE, United Kingdom

Keywords popular music, broadcasting, Liverpool, cultural representations

Peter Atkinson is senior lecturer in Film and Media at University of Central Lancashire, UK, specializing in popular music and broadcasting. With a Ph.D. on the subject of cultural representations of Liverpool in broadcasting, Peter has several publications on this subject and has given numerous international conference papers on a variety of topics.

Poetic licence: Issues of signification and authorship in British television versedocumentary,1986–96, Studies in Documentary Film, 5.1, 61–74.

Sarah Atkinson

University of Brighton in Hastings, Havelock Road, Hastings, TN34 1BE, UK

Keywords audio-visual arts, dramatic storytelling, broadcasting, sonic media

Dr Sarah Atkinson is principal lecturer in broadcast media at the University of Brighton, UK. She is also an audio-visual arts practitioner, undertaking practice-based explorations into new forms of fictional and dramatic storytelling in visual and sonic media. She is particularly interested in multi-linear and multi-channel aesthetics, her own multi-screen interactive cinema installation ‘Crossed Lines’ has been exhibited internationally, as has her surround sound and hypersonic installation ‘auditoryum’ (a collaboration with Marley Cole).

Surrounded by sound: The aesthetics of multichannel and hypersonic soundscapes and aural architectures, The Soundtrack, 4.1, 5–21.

Michael Audette-Longo

Carleton University, 554 King Edward, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada

Keywords representation, ideology, discourse, South Africa

Michael Audette-Longo holds the 2007/2009 Research Fellowship from the Audiovisual Media Lab for the study of Cultures and Societies (www.lamacs.uOttawa.ca). His research interests include the representation of the subjective and objective self in motion pictures. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University (Canada).

Revis(it)ing personal, theoretical and national histories: A critical review-essay of Encountering Modernity: Twentieth Century South African Cinemas with an interview with Keyan G. Tomaselli, Journal of African Cinemas, 2.2, 151–165.

Patricia Aufderheide

School of Communication, American University, Washington D.C., United States of America

Keywords family, body, documentary, film history, mother

Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at the American University in Washington DC and founder-director of the Center for Social Media there. She is the author of, among others, Documentary: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2007) and The Daily Planet (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). She has received numerous journalism and scholarly awards, including career achievement awards in 2006 from the International Documentary Association and in 2008 from the International Digital Media and Arts Association.

Characters structuring narrative: Undressing My Mother within personal memoir film history, Short Film Studies, 1.1, 71–75.

Guy Austin

Newcastle University, School of Modern Languages, Old Library Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom

Keywords comedy, genre, folk humour, Bakhtin, Les Visiteurs, trauma

Guy Austin is currently Professor of French Studies at Newcastle University; he specializes in French and Algerian cinema. Austin began his career in 1992 at Sheffield, where he worked on modern French cinema, French film stars and the films of Claude Chabrol, each area resulting in a book. A revised and expanded edition of his first book, Contemporary French Cinema, was published in 2008. Since around 2006 he has been interested in Algerian cinema, and in related issues such as postcolonialism, trauma, national identity and the representation of space. Austin’s major project at present is a monograph on Algerian National Cinema for Manchester University Press, due for publication in 2012 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Algerian independence.

Body comedy and French cinema: notes on Les Visiteurs, Studies in French Cinema, 6.1, 43–52.

Against amnesia: representations of memory in Algerian cinema, Journal of African Cinemas, 2.1, 27–35.

Thomas Austin

University of Sussex, School of Media, Film and Music, Silverstone Building, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK

Keywords black sun, masculinity, disability, documentary. history, Errol Morris, Robert S. McNamara, Vietnam War, The Fog of War

Thomas Austin is senior lecturer in Media and Film at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Watching the World: Screen Documentary and Audiences (2007) and Hollywood, Hype and Audiences (2002), and co-editor of Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives, New Practices (2008) and Contemporary Hollywood Stardom (2003).

Damaged bodies in documentary: Black Sun and Murderball, Studies in Documentary Film, 4.1, 51–64.

The mists of time: Control, chaos and irreversibility in The Fog of War, Studies in Documentary Film, 6.1, 29–42.

Karina Aveyard

Griffith University

Keywords DCI Specification, 3D, independent cinema, Australian cinema

Karina Aveyard is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Humanities at Griffith University. Her doctoral research examines contemporary cinema exhibition in regional and rural locations. This research is funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant in partnership with the Australian government film agencies the National Film and Sound Archive and Screen Australia. Karina's essays have been published in Studies in Australasian Cinema and Media International Australia. Work in progress includes a co-edited collection Watching Films: New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception for Intellect Books.

Introduction Going Digital: implications and opportunities for cinema in Australia and New Zealand, Studies in Australasian Cinema, 3.2, 151–154.

‘Coming to a cinema near you?’: digitized exhibition and independent cinemas in Australia, Studies in Australasian Cinema, 3.2, 191–203.

VaultAge: Digitizing and contextualizing Australian audio-visual content: Australianscreen online (aso.gov.au), Studies in Australasian Cinema, 3.2, 205–222.

More than Ͷmaking doͶ: Rethinking cinema attendance in regional and rural Australia, Studies in Australasian Cinema, 5.1, 7–17.

Tony Ayres

Big and Little Films, PO Box 1271, St Kilda South, Victoria 3182, Australia

Keywords diaspora, Asian Australian cinema, The Home Song Stories, film-making

Tony Ayres is a writer and director of feature films and documentaries. His most recent feature film is The Home Song Stories.

Interview with Tony Ayres: on The Home Song Stories and Asian Australian film-making, Studies in Australasian Cinema, 2.3, 245–254.

Jason Bainbridge

Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Higher Education, Swinburne University, Melba Avenue Lilydale, Vic. 3122, Australia

Keywords city, Underbelly, consumption, true crime, entrepreneurism

Jason Bainbridge is Senior Lecturer and Discipline Leader in Media, Journalism and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology. His research interests include representations of law in popular culture, superheroes and comic book culture, cultural understandings of the city and the role of merchandising in media convergence. All three are currently part of an interdisciplinary team exploring notions of the symbolic city and how combined analyses of lived experience, political discourse and popular imagining contribute to a greater understanding of a city's form and function.

Ganging up in the entrepreneurial city: Melbourne, the casino and the Underbelly franchise, Studies in Australasian Cinema, 5.3, 265–279.

Kees Bakker

Institut Jean Vigo, Arsenal, 1 rue Jean Vielledent, Perpignan, 66000, France

Keywords documentary, Joris Ivens, Johan van der Keuken, history, theory, hermeneutics, ethics

Kees Bakker is Director of the Institut Jean Vigo in Perpignan, France. He studied Philosophy and Film and Performing Arts at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He worked for the European Foundation Joris Ivens and has been teaching Film Theory and Film History at the Universities of Nijmegen and Utrecht and Documentary at the Dutch Film Acadamy. Before arriving at the Jean Vigo Film Institute he worked as Analyst at the European Audiovisual Observatory (Council of Europe, Strasbourg). Currently, next to the film archival activities, the Confrontation film festival and regular film programming for the Institut Jean Vigo, he is also programmer of the Doc History section of the Lussas Documentary Film Festival in France.

‘THEY ARE LIKE HORSES WITH BLINDERS ON’ One war, two views: Joris Ivens and Fumio Kamei, China, 1938, Studies in Documentary Film, 3.1, 19–33.

Bakur Bakuradze

Keywords Russian cinema, documentary film, scriptwriting

Bakur Bakuradze is a film-maker (fiction and documentary films) and scriptwriter. Born on 16 March 1969 in Tbilisi, he graduated from the Moscow Road Institute (MADI) in 1993, and then attended the Faculty of Directing at the Film Institute VGIK, graduating in 1998 from the class of Marlen Khutsiev. His films include Without Money (Bez deneg , short, 1997); Displaced (Sdvinutyi, TV, co-directed by Aleksandr Basov, 2001); Aleksandr Volkotrubov (with Aleksandr Basov, documentary, 2001); For the Price of One’s Life (Tsenoi svoei zhizni, documentary, 2001); The Time of the Ministry of Finance: 200 Years of Service to the Fatherland (Vremia Minfina, documentary, 2002); and Viacheslav Pilipenko (with Aleksandr Basov, documentary, 2003).

Film Script, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, 3.1, 91–129.

Cesar Ballester

Arts University College, Bournemouth, Dorset

Keywords Kieślowski, individuality, Polish cinema, 1980s, optimism within defeat

After his first degree in Latin and Hispanic Studies at King’s College, London, Cesar Ballester went on to complete an MA in Russian and East European Literature and Culture, and a Ph.D. on Czech and Slovak cinema of the 1960s, both at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He has written two monographs: El Cine de Andrzej Munk, El Caracter Nacional y el Individuo (Madrid: Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid, Fundacion Autor, 2008) and Miloš Forman (Madrid: Ediciones Catedra, S.A., 2007). He is currently Senior Lecturer at the Arts University College, Bournemouth.

Individuality in Kieślowski's Bez Końca, Studies in European Cinema, 6.1, 77–89.

Subjectivism, uncertainty and individuality: Munk’s Człowiek na torze/Man on the Tracks (1956) and its influence on the Czechoslovak New Wave, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 2.1, 61–73.

Reviews, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 3.1, 89–109.

Isolina Ballesteros

Baruch College, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Liturature, 17 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10010, United States of America

Keywords Spanish cinema, immigration, female, otherness, diaspora

Isolina Ballesteros is Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature of Baruch College, CUNY. Her field of specialty is contemporary Spanish cultural studies. She has published extensively about Spanish and Latin American women writers, the image of women in the post-Franco literature, and Spanish and European film. She is the author of two books: Escritura femenina y discurso autobiográfico en la nueva novela española (1994), and Cine (Ins)urgente: textos fílmicos y contextos culturales de la España postfranquista (2001). She is currently working on a book called: 'Undesirable’ Otherness and ‘Immigration Cinema’ in the European Union.

Embracing the other: the feminization of Spanish ‘immigration cinema’, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 2.1, 3–14.

Foreign and racial masculinities in contemporary Spanish film, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 3.3, 169–186.

Collette Balmain

Flat 2, Oregon Building, Deals Gateway, London, SE13 7RR, United Kingdom

Keywords gender, cult cinema, pink film, guinea pig, mondo

Colette Balmain is a writer and researcher of East Asian cinemas and cultures.

Flesh and Blood: The Guinea Pig Films, Asian Cinema, 22.1, 58–69.

Mahomed Bamba

Universidade Federal da Bahia, Rua Clemente Ferreira, 61, apt. 1304, Canela, Salvador/Bahia CEP. 40110–200– Salvador/Bahia/Brasil

Keywords cinema, anti-colonialist, Mozambican cinema, cinema action, third cinema

Mahomed Bamba, native of Côte d'Ivoire, has a Ph.D. in Cinema, Audiovisual and Communication Sciences from the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP). Currently, he is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication (FACOM) of Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). He has published several articles on theories of cinematographic reception and African cinema (research fields). He is a member of the deliberative council of SOCINE (Brazilian Society of Film Studies), as well as the author of ‘The role of festivals in the reception and dissemination of African cinema', in Cinema no mundo/Cinema in the world, edited by Alessandra Meleiro (São Paulo: Editora Escrituras, 2007), The African cinema (s): singular and plural', in Cinema mundial contemporâneo/Contemporary world cinema, edited by Mauro Baptista and Fernando Mascarello (São Paulo: Ed. Papirus, 2008).

In the name of 'cinema action' and Third World: The intervention of foreign film-makers in Mozambican cinema in the 1970s and 1980s, Journal of African Cinemas, 3.2, 173–185.

Bidisha Banerjee

Department of English, Hong Kong Institute of Education, 10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong

Keywords patriarchy, homosexuality, queer studies, feminism, Deepa Mehta

Dr Bidisha Banerjee is Assistant Professor of English at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. She has an MA in English from Claremont Graduate University and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Bidisha’s research and teaching interests include postcolonial studies; globality and transnationalism; diaspora and exile; postcolonial feminist fictions and theory; cultural studies; film studies; and gay and lesbian literature. She has presented her work widely at conferences in Europe, Asia and the United States. Some of her work on the South Asian diaspora has been published.

Identity at the Margins: Queer Diasporic Film and the Exploration of Same-Sex Desire in Deepa Mehta's Fire, Studies in South Asian Film & Media, 2.1, 19–39.

Exoticized Heroine or Hybrid Woman? Diasporic Female Subjectivity in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala, Asian Cinema, 22.2, 417–432.

Traveling Bodies: Gender, Nationalism and Diasporic Identity Formation in Gurinder Chadha's Bahji on the Beach, Asian Cinema, 20.2, 18–.

Henrik Paul Bang

Keywords public, governance, rhetoric, policy-politics, legitimacy

Henrik Paul Bang is an associate professor at Department for Political Science, University of Copenhagen. His primary interests are comparative politics, governance, new modes of citizenship, publics, power, authority and participation. He has published numerous articles in international journals and anthologies. His most recent publications are: The Everyday Maker (co-author, 2001), Democracy from below (co-editor, 2000), Governance as social and political communication (ed., 2003) and New Publics with/out Democracy (co-editor, 2007).

Political authority as genuineness – how to transgress new public spheres,Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, 7.1, 73–94.

Axel Bangert

University of Cambridge, Department of German and Dutch, United Kingdom

Keywords Holocaust, cultural memory, sonder, kommando, Primo Levi, body

Axel Bangert is a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge. He holds an MA in Modern History from Humboldt University, Berlin, with a thesis on representations of the Holocaust in contemporary feature film. His Ph.D., which he completed at the University of Cambridge in 2010, examines television and cinema productions about the Third Reich since German reunification. In his post-doctoral research project, he develops transnational perspectives on contemporary European cinema.

Changing narratives and images of the Holocaust: Tim Blake Nelson, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 6.1, 17–32.

Weihong Bao

Ohio State University, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, 398 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Rd., Columbus, United States of America

Keywords modern Taiwan theatre, pornography, musical, paratheatre, biomechanics, Chongqing cinema

Weihong Bao is Assistant Professor of Chinese cinema in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University. She focuses on Chinese cinema in the silent and early sound period, with a broad interest in nineteenth- and twentieth-century film and media culture. She has published in such journals as Camera Obscura, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, and The Journal of Modern Chinese Literature.

Biomechanics of love: reinventing the avant-garde in Tsai Ming-liang's wayward ‘pornographic musical’, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 1.2, 139–160.

In search of a ‘cinematic Esperanto’: exhibiting wartime Chongqing cinema in global context, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 3.2, 135–147.

Dr Sian Barber

University of London

Keywords media, cultural history, Internet

Dr Sian Barber is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Portsmouth as part of the AHRC-funded project on 1970s visual culture and has published on British cinema and cinema going. Her latest work is Censoring the 1970s: the BBFC and the Decade that Taste Forgot published by Cambridge Scholars Press in December 2011. Her other research interests include cultural history in an online environment and the challenges posed the internet to methods of research. She is currently working on the EUscreen project which provides online access to Europe's television heritage.

Reviews, Transnational Cinemas, 2.2, 227–238.

Alice Bardan

University of Southern California

Keywords pawel, British cinema, Last Resort, asylum seekers, whiteness

Alice Bardan is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She received a BA in English and French and an MA in American Cultural Studies from the Al. I. Cuza University in Romania. She also received an MA in English from Emporia State University, Kansas. Her research focuses on contemporary European cinema, the construction of European identities, media globalization, and post-communist transformations.

‘Welcome to Dreamland’: The realist impulse in Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 6.1, 47–63.

Martin Barker

University of Aberystwyth, Department of Theatre, Film and TV, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3AJ, United Kingdom

Keywords teaching film, media literacy, vernacular concepts, moral controversies

Martin Barker is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of a number of books, of which probably best-known is Ill Effects: the Media-Violence Debate (co-edited with Julian Petley). He was director of the major international audience research project into the reception of The Lord of the Rings (2003–4) whose results were published (Watching The Lord of the Rings) by Peter Lang in 2007. In 2007 he also directed a research project for the British Board of Film Classification into audience responses to sexual violence on screen, whose outcomes can be found on their website.

Menstrual Monsters, Film International, 4.21, 68–77.

Thomas Barker

United Kingdom

Keywords Kuldesak, private television, Islamic-themed films, film nasional, indonesian film festival. film national,

Thomas Barker is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, writing a thesis called ‘A Cultural Economy of the Contemporary Indonesian Film Industry.’ He writes occasionally for The Jakarta Post and is the editor of an Indonesian film blog with VeronikaKusuma (www.primalscenes.wordpress.com).

Indonesian Cinema: A Symposium, Asian Cinema, 21.2, 3–6.

Historical Inheritance and Film Nasional in Post-Reformasi Indonesian Cinema, Asian Cinema, 21.2, 7–24.

Imagining Indonesia: Ethnic Chinese Film Producers in Pre-Independence Cinema, Asian Cinema, 21.2, 25–47.

Justin L. Barrett

University of Oxford, Centre for Anthropology and Mind, United Kingdom

Keywords virtual, cognition, religion, Second Life, touch

Dr Justin L Barrett is senior researcher at University of Oxford's Centre for Anthropology and Mind and the Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology. Barrett received his BA in psychology from Calvin College, and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology (cognitive and developmental focus) from Cornell University. He has served on the faculties of Calvin College and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) before joining Oxford. Barrett's career has been characterized by work in the cognitive study of culture with a particular emphasis on CSR. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Cognition and Culture (Brill). His book Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (2004, AltaMira) represented the field's first relatively comprehensive introduction intended for a general audience.

Virtual reality as a ‘spiritual’ experience: a perspective from the cognitive science of religion, Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, 6.1, 75–90.

Sandra Barriales-Bouche

Keywords post-Franco Spain, Spanish Civil War, Spanish cinema

Sandra Barriales-Bouche is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Suffolk University where she teaches Spanish language, culture, literature and film. Her research interests include the literature of the exiles of the Spanish Civil War, and the literature and film of Democratic Spain. She has published articles on the poetry of Luis Cernuda and Pedro Garfias and the autobiographical texts of Federica Montseny. She is the editor of España: ¿laberinto de exilios? (2005) and the co-editor of Zoom in, Zoom out: Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema (2007).

Filming ghosts: Entre el dictador y yo (2005), an awakening to a silenced past, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 4.3, 139–150.

David Barton

United Kingdom

Keywords Taiwanese, mourning, Tsai Ming-liang, music, melancholy

David Barton is a professor in the English Department, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan. He has written two books and several articles.

Clepsydra: The Fluid Melancholy of What Time Is It There, Asian Cinema, 19.2, 281–291.

Stefano Baschiera

Keywords European cinema, popular cinema, genre, co-production, Italian cinema

Stefano Baschiera is Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests include the representation of domestic and urban spaces in European cinema. He has published on transnational cinema, cinema and space, and the European New Waves in journals and edited collections.

Once Upon a Time in Italy: Transnational Features of Genre Production 1960s1970s, Film International, 8.6, 30–39.

Raphaël Bassan

Metra

Keywords avant-garde, festivals, cooperatives, history, transmission of knowledge

Raphaël Bassan is a film journalist who has written on experimental cinema (amongst other forms of cinema) in specialist journals such as and La Revue du Cinéma, in national dailies such as Libération, and in dictionaries and encyclopaedias, for example L’Encyclopaedia Universalis (since 1996), Une encyclopédie du court métrage français (2004). He is the co-founder of the Collectif Jeune Cinéma in 1971, and has made three short films: Le Départ d’Eurydice (1969), Prétextes (1971), and Lucy en miroir (2004).

French experimental cinema: the richness of the 1970s, Studies in French Cinema, 4.3, 165–174.

Stephanie Bastek

Keywords queer theory, genre, gender, suture, spatiality

Stephanie Bastek, Isabel Lockhart Smith, and Kerstin Rosero attended Reed College in the 2010/11 academic year, where they were classmates in Rebecca Gordon’s Film Theory course. This paper is adapted from their collaborative final presentation on Les Diaboliques.

Queer Horror: Unearthing Sexual Difference in Les Diaboliques, Film Matters, 2.4, 13–17.

Gautam Basu Thakur

University of Mississippi, English, C 134 Bondurant Hall, PO Box 1848, Mississippi, MS 38677, United States of America

Keywords psychosis, Lacan, psychoanalysis, consumerism, auteur, ‘Cinema of Disturbance’

Gautam Basu Thakur holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2010). He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of World Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Mississippi, where he teaches world literature, literary and critical theory, and postcolonial studies. His research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and South Asian literature, world literature, postcolonial theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and culture studies. His articles have been published in Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, and in a collection of essays titled Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora. He is currently working on a book-length comparative study on the effective impact of the 1857 Mutiny on British and Indian cultural consciousness.

Re-reading Michael Haneke's La Pianiste: schizo-politics and the critique of consumer culture, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 5.2, 139–152.

Richard Bates

United Kingdom

Keywords actuality television, music, hearing-impaired viewers

Richard Bates is the Chair of the Media Access Group of the Royal National Institute of the Deaf. The Group’s twin concerns are the quantity and quality of subtitles, and the clarity of soundtracks in television and radio programmes.

The problem of music in actuality television, The Soundtrack, 1.3, 183–191.

Giulia Battaglia

University of London, Centre for Media and Film Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1HOXG, UK

Keywords South Asia, Indian film culture, documentary film

Giulia Battaglia is a teaching fellow at the Centre