Contributors
- Contributors
Justine Ashby is a lecturer in the School of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is coeditor of British Cinema: Past and Present (Routledge, 2000) and has published articles on women filmmakers, the British woman's film, and gender and British cinema. She is at work on Odd Women Out: Betty and Muriel Box, a study of two pioneering women filmmakers in postwar Britain, and another project tentatively titled Beyond the Backlash: Post-feminism and British Popular Culture.
Charlotte Brunsdon teaches in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Screen Tastes: Soap Opera to Satellite Dishes (Routledge, 1997) and of The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera (Oxford University Press, 2000). She is currently working on a study of London in the cinema.
Christine Holmlund is a professor of cinema studies, women's studies, and French at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies (Routledge, 2002) and coeditor (with Justin Wyatt) of Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream [End Page 132] (Routledge, 2005) and (with Cynthia Fuchs) of Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary (University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
Linda Mizejewski is a professor and chair of women's studies at Ohio State University. She is the author of Divine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle, and the Makings of Sally Bowles (Princeton University Press, 1992); Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema (Duke University Press, 1999); and Hardboiled & High Heeled: The Woman Investigator in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2004).
Diane Negra is a lecturer in the School of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom (Routledge, 2001), coeditor (with Jennifer Bean) of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (Duke University Press, 2002), and editor of the forthcoming The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture (Duke University Press). She is working on Perils and Pleasures: Postfeminism and Contemporary Popular Culture.
Yvonne Tasker is a professor in the School of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of various books and articles on gender and popular culture, including Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema (Routledge, 1993) and Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (Routledge, 1998). She has recently edited Action and Adventure Cinema (Routledge, 2004) and is currently working on Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since WWII. [End Page 133]
