Contributors
- Contributors
Christine Cornea is a full-time lecturer in the School of Film and Television at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality (Edinburgh University Press/Rutgers University Press, 2007) and has published a number of articles on various aspects of the science fiction genre. She is currently working on an edited collection looking at genre and screen performance, and a further book-length project on science fiction television.
Mark Kermode is one of Britain's leading film critics, Visiting Fellow in the English Department at Southampton University, and author of the British Film Institute Modern Classic volumes on The Exorcist and The Shawshank Redemption. He is a contributing editor of Sight and Sound magazine, and has written and presented numerous documentaries on film subjects. [End Page 153]
Scott MacDonald's series of interview books, published under the general title A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers by the University of Calilfornia Press, is now in five volumes. MacDonald continues to interview independent film- and video-makers. He is also author of The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). He is currently teaching at Harvard University and at Hamilton College.
Vicki Mayer is an associate professor of Communication at Tulane University. Her new book project is entitled Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy.
Brett Mills is a lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Television Sitcom (2005), and How to Read Media Theory (with David Barlow, forthcoming). In 2005-6, he carried out the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded study Funny Business: interviews with members of the British terrestrial television comedy industry.
Linda Ruth Williams is professor of Film in the English Department at Southampton University, UK. She is author of four books, including The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, and coeditor of Contemporary American Cinema. [End Page 154]
