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  • Contributors

Anna Everett is an associate professor of film, TV, and new media studies and the director of the Center for Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909–1949 (Duke University Press, 2001); coeditor (with John Caldwell) of New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality (Routledge, 2003); and editor of Screening Noir, an online and print newsletter of African diasporic film, video, and digital culture.

Barry Keith Grant is a professor of film studies and popular culture and director of the graduate program in popular culture at Brock University in Ontario. He is the author of Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman (University of Illinois Press, 1992), coauthor of The Film Studies Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2001), and editor of many volumes including Film Genre Reader III (University of Texas Press, 2003).

E. Ann Kaplan is a professor of English and comparative literature at Stony Brook University, where she also founded and directs the Humanities Institute. Her many books include Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze (Routledge, 1997); Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction (co-edited with Susan Squier, Rutgers University Press, 1999); Feminism and Film (Oxford University Press, 2000); and Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations (coedited with Ban Wang, Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming).

Robert Kolker is an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland, where he taught film for almost thirty years. He has also served as chair of the School of Literature, Communications, and Culture at Georgia Tech. He is the author of five books, including A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, and Altman (Oxford University Press, 2000) and editor of the forthcoming Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho": A Casebook (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Jon Lewis is a professor of English at Oregon State University and the editor of Cinema Journal. He is the author or editor of several books, including Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry (New York University Press, 2000) and The End of Cinema as We Know It: American Film in the Nineties (New York University Press, 2002).

Catherine Russell is an associate professor of film studies at Concordia University in Montreal and director of the Ph.D. in Humanities Program. She is the author of Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure, and New Wave Cinemas (University of Minnesota Press, 1985) and Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video (Duke University Press, 1999). She has also published numerous articles on video art, Canadian film, and Japanese cinema.

Frank P. Tomasulo is a professor in the Film School at Florida State University and director of its undergraduate program. The author of more than 60 scholarly essays and 150 academic papers, Tomasulo was editor of the Journal of Film and Video (1991-96) and editor of Cinema Journal (1997-2002). He is the coeditor (with Cynthia Baron and Diane Carson) of More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Screen Performance (Wayne State University Press, 2004). [End Page 101]

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