Contributors
- Contributors
Richard Abel is Robert Altman Collegiate Professor of Film Studies and chair of the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures at the University of Michigan. Most recently he edited the Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, published Americanizing the Movies and 'Movie-Mad' Audiences, 1910–1914, and co-edited Early Cinema and the "National."
Bambi Haggins is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University and the author of Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post Soul America, which was the 2008 winner of The Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award (2008).
Victoria E. Johnson is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity.
E. Ann Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, and Founding Director of The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University. Her many books have been translated into six languages. Her most recent book is Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature. Her new projects include a book on "Affect in Cinema," and another on "The Unconscious of Age in Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture."
Lisa Parks is Associate Professor and Chair of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual and co-editor of Planet TV and Undead TV. She is writing two new books: "Mixed Signals: Media Infrastructures and Cultural Geographies," and "Coverage: Media Space and Security after 911."
Dana Polan is a Professor of Cinema Studies at NYU. His book on The Sopranos is just out from Duke University Press in its new Spin Offs series on television, and his volume on Julia Child's The French Chef is forthcoming in the same series. [End Page 197]
