Contributors
- Contributors
William Boddy is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College and coordinator of the Film Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center, both of the City University of New York. He is the author of Fifties Television; The Industry and Its Critics; and New Media and Popular Imagination: Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States.
John T. Caldwell is a professor of film, television, and digital media at UCLA. His books include Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television, Electronic Media and Technoculture, New Media (coedited with Anna Everett), and the forthcoming Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film/Television. He is also the producer/director of the award-winning films Freak Street to Goa: Immigrants on the Rajpath (1989) and Rancho California (por favor) (2002).
John Hartley is a Federation Fellow at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He is the author of many books and articles on media, cultural, and journalism studies, including Creative Industries, A Short History of Cultural Studies, and Uses of Television.
Michele Hilmes is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author or editor of several books, including Hollywood and Broadcasting: From Radio to Cable; Radio Voices: American Broadcasting 1922–1952; Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States; and The Television History Book. She is currently at work on NBC: America's Network, a collection of essays tracing the history of the National Broadcasting Company and its impact on American culture.
Toby Miller is a professor of English, sociology, and women's studies and director of the Program in Film & Visual Culture at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books and has published essays in more than thirty journals and fifty volumes. His current research covers the success of Hollywood overseas, the links between culture and citizenship, and anti-Americanism.
Horace Newcomb holds the Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabodys and is director of the George Foster Peabody Awards in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. He is the author of books and articles dealing with television and the editor of two editions of the Museum of Broadcast Communications' Encyclopedia of Television.
Lynn Spigel teaches in the Department of Radio/Television/Film in the School of Communication at Northwestern University. She is the author of Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America and Welcome to the Dream-house: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs and the editor of several anthologies on television and cultural studies. [End Page 117]
