Contributors
- Contributors
Kevin Andreano is a recent graduate of New York University, where he received a BA in cinema studies and history. He will be attending the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University in 2007.
Michael Baskett is associate professor of film studies in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Kansas, where he specializes in Japanese and Asian film and film history. He is the author of The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan, forthcoming from the University of Hawai’i Press.
Rosemary Bergeron has worked as an archivist in the Film and Broadcasting Section of the Library and Archives Canada since 1984.
Mary Desjardins is associate professor of film and television studies at Dartmouth College. She is coeditor of Dietrich Icon and author of the forthcoming Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video. Her current work is on the construction of glamour in the Hollywood studio system.
Paula De Stefano is the Barbara Goldsmith Curator for Preservation and has been head of the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department at New York University Libraries since 1988. She oversees the preservation of library materials in all formats within the NYU library, archives, and special collections. Ms. De Stefano received a BA in English literature at Marymount Manhattan College and a master of science in library science and a postgraduate degree in preservation administration from Columbia University. She is a member of the Society of American Archivists, the Association of Moving Image Archivists, and the American Libraries Association.
Doron Galili received a BA in film and television studies from Tel Aviv University and a master’s degree in moving image archive studies from UCLA. He is currently a student in the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies in the University of Chicago.
Oliver Gaycken is assistant professor in the Department of English at Temple University. He has published on a variety of topics, including the popular science film, Feuillade, and the invention of the ophthalmoscope. He is researching the educational efforts of George Kleine and the Thomas Edison Company.
Rich Housh is in his second year of the PhD program for film studies in the Theatre and Film Department at the University of Kansas. He received his MA in film studies and European cinema from the University of West England in 2004. His research interests include experimental and documentary film theory and practice, with specific attention given to avant-garde music and sound theory and how they relate to visual culture and new media.
Mona Jimenez is associate professor and coassociate director in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) Program in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. She has been responsible for teaching and curriculum development for film, video, and digital media preservation. Jimenez has also developed numerous resources and tools for electronic media preservation, most recently cowriting with Liss Platt the “Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide” (http://www.arts.state.tx.us/video/), and as a researcher in residence at the Daniel Langlois Foundation, creating a template for describing electronic art devices (http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=708).
Barak Kushner teaches modern Japanese history in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has a PhD in history from Princeton University and has worked in the U.S. Department of State as a political officer in East Asian affairs and has taught Chinese and Japanese history at Davidson College. The Thought War, Kushner’s first book, delves into the history of wartime Japanese propaganda. His second book, tentatively titled The Noodle That Changed the World, centers on that mainstay of the Japanese diet, ramen noodles. He is also working on a third book that analyzes Japanese espionage and the Cold War in America. Kushner’s articles have appeared in Diplomatic History, The International History Review, Journal of Popular Culture, and The Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television.
Timothy Wisniewski is the visual materials archivist at the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins University, the official archival repository for the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. A recent MLIS graduate from the University of...
