Contributors
- Contributors
Ann E. Butler is currently archivist at the Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University. Prior to joining Fales Library in 2002, she was archivist at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Her training includes a degree in fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and two master’s degrees, one in library and information science from Rutgers University, the other in media studies from the New School for Social Research. She is an active member of several professional organizations including the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), the Society of American Archivists (SAA), and Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP).
Archivist, movie addict, and lowbrow Liz Coffey is a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at George Eastman House. She has worked with TV news at Northeast Historic Film and does so currently at the Rhode Island Historical Society. She has been a projectionist in Boston for five years and spends most nights in a darkened theater watching light dance across a screen.
Liz Czach is a Ph.D. candidate in the Visual and Cultural Studies program at the University of Rochester where she is completing her dissertation “Careless Rapture: Artifacts and Archives of the Home Movie.” She has worked as a film programmer with numerous organizations and since 1995 has been a film programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her article on Polavision appeared in the fall 2002 issue of The Moving Image.
Carl Fleischhauer holds a B.A. from Kenyon College and an M.F.A. from Ohio University. His work experience includes film and video production at West Virginia University (1969-1976); folklife field research, publications, and exhibitions at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress (1976-1990); coordination of the Library’s American Memory program for on-line collections (1990-1998); and continuing service to digital preservation efforts in the Library’s Office of Strategic Initiatives (1998-present).
Frances Guerin is a lecturer in film studies and Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Her book, In a Culture of Light: Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. She has also published on German and European cinema and film theory in a number of journals, including Cinema Journal, Film and History, and Cinema e Cie. She is currently writing a monograph on the uses and reuses of amateur Nazi film and photography, and coediting an anthology on images of witnesses and the image as witness to traumatic historical events with Roger Hallas.
Yvette Hackett has worked at the National Archives of Canada for seventeen years, first with moving image and sound records and subsequently with textual electronic records generated in a government environment. She is currently the Electronic Records Project archivist in the Canadian Archives Branch where she will focus on the acquisition of all types of digital records from private-sector creators. Yvette was a member of the Authenticity Task Force of the first InterPARES project. In InterPARES 2, she serves as the chair of the Focus Group on Artistic Activities.
Jan-Christopher Horak is curator of the Hollywood Entertainment Museum, adjunct professor in critical studies at UCLA, and founding vice president of AMIA. He received his Ph.D. from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, and a master’s degree in film from Boston University. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Making Images Move: Photographers and Avant-Garde Cinema; Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945; and The Dream Merchants: Making and Selling Films in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Janna Jones is an assistant professor of communication at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Her areas of research are cinematic culture and cultural heritage. Her recent book is The Southern Movie Palace: Rise, Fall, and Resurrection. She is currently conducting research for a new book about the cultural implications of film preservation. Jones’s article “From Forgotten Film to a Film Archive: The Curious History of From Ship to Ship” is forthcoming in Film History.
Tammy Kinsey is an assistant professor of film at the University of Toledo, where she...
