Contributors
- Contributors
Margaret A. Compton, MLIS, is the media archives archivist for the University of Georgia Libraries' Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, which includes two collections of academic films, one of which still circulates. Her most recent article for The Moving Image (Spring 2010) is on collecting Georgia's hometown movies. Her previous articles appear in Film History (2003), Cinema Journal (2007), and American Music (2009). She is now preparing the media archive's thousands of film, video, and audio holdings for relocation to colder storage in the university's new Special Collections Building, scheduled to open in January 2012.
Thomas Doherty is a professor of American studies at Brandeis University. His books include Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934 (1999), Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (2003), and Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration (2007). He is an associate editor for the film magazine Cineaste and a film review editor for the Journal of American History.
Dan Erdman is an intern at Chicago Film Archives. He lives in Sycamore, Illinois.
Robert J. Heiber, vice president, audio, Chace Audio by Deluxe, has been working in film sound preservation and restoration since 1990, when he joined Chace Audio. He is a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Bob has served on three national panels for the Library of Congress and has spoken on film sound preservation, restoration, and remastering at conferences and symposia around the world.
Maija Howe is a doctoral candidate in the film studies program at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Her work has appeared in publications such as Senses of Cinema, RealTime, and Photographer Unknown, and she is currently writing her dissertation on aesthetics and photographicity in 8mm home movies produced in the post-World War II era.
Ondřej Kálal works as a judge's assistant at Prague City Court in the Czech Republic.
Shari Kizirian is a cultural journalist based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her writings on the art, history, and business of cinema have been published by the International Documentary Association, the Center for Social Media at American University, the National Alliance for Media Art and Culture, the Sundance Institute, the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, and Senses of Cinema, among other outlets. She is coeditor of and longtime contributor to the program book for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
Diana Little is head of film preservation at MediaPreserve, an audiovisual laboratory just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [End Page 143]
Alice Lovejoy is assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota and a former editor at Film Comment. She is currently at work on her first book, which examines the emergence of an experimental film culture in Czechoslovakia's Army Film studio.
Charles Maland is J. Douglas Bruce Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee. He is author of, among other writings, Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of a Star Image and City Lights, which appeared in 2007 in the BFI Film Classics Series.
Luci Marzola is a PhD student in critical studies in cinema at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the foundational years of Hollywood and the silent period in cinema history.
Cecilia Mörner has a PhD in cinema studies from Stockholm University and is currently assistant professor of media and communication studies at Örebro University, Sweden. She has recently published book chapters about home movies in Swedish and about local film in both Swedish and English.
Christopher Natzén holds a PhD in cinema studies and works at the National Library of Sweden, Research Department. His expertise lies within the realm of film, and he has specialized in the introduction of sound to silent film. In 2010, he defended his doctoral thesis on the conversion to sound film in Sweden, with a focus on how audiovisual expression changed during the period 1928-32. as a member...
