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John Berra is a Lecturer in Film Studies at Nanjing University. He is the co-editor of World Film Locations: Beijing (2012) and has contributed articles on the cinema and urban culture of mainland China to Asian Cinema, Film, Fashion & Consumption and Geography Compass.

Kevin Fisher is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media, Film and Communication at the University of Otago. His research interests include phenomenology, sf and special effects, documentary and audiovisual analysis. His essays have appeared in the anthologies Meta-Morphing (2000), The Lord of the Rings: Studying the Event Film (2007), Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction (2008) and Mäori Media in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2013), as well as such journals as Science Fiction Film and Television and The New Review of Film and Television.

Ximena Gallardo C. is Professor of English at Fiorello H. LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York and the co-author of Alien Woman: The Making of Lt.Ellen Ripley (2004), which was awarded the Ray and Pat Browne Popular Culture Book Award. Her research focuses on issues of sex and gender in sf and fantasy television, film and print fiction.

Lincoln Geraghty is Reader in Popular Media Cultures and Director of the Centre for Cultural and Creative Research at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of Living with Star Trek: American Culture and the Star Trek Universe (2007) and American Science Fiction Film and Television (2009), and the editor of The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture (2008), Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television (2009), The Smallville Chronicles: Critical Essays on the Television Series (2011) and, with Mark Jancovich, The Shifting Definitions of Genre: Essays on Labeling Film, Television Shows and Media (2008). He currently serves as editor of the Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood (2011), and his Cult Collectors: Nostalgia, Fandom and Collecting Popular Culture is forthcoming.

Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Film Studies and Popular Culture at Brock University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including the pioneering anthologies Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film (1984) and The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (1996). The editor of the Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media series (including TV Milestones) for Wayne State University Press and the New Approaches to Film Genre series for Wiley Blackwell, his most recent book is 100 Science Fiction Films (2013) for BFI/Palgrave Macmillan.

Rehan Hyder is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of the West of England and author of Brimful of Asia: Negotiating Ethnicity on the UK Music Scene (2004). As well as a focus on music and locality, his current research explores representations of Thuggee in popular literature, film and television. [End Page 317]

Emma Anne James is a doctoral researcher at the University of Leicester, working on the relationship between American culture and post-apocalyptic films. Wider research interests include sf film and television, horror film and myth, and history and culture in film studies generally. Her Masters' dissertation was on the adaptation of vampire myths in Let the Right One In.

Darren Jorgensen is an associate professor in art history at the University of Western Australia. He specialises in remote Aboriginal and Australian art in his home country, while also publishing in sf studies and the relationship of the genre to contemporary art.

Eric Schmaltz is a writer, reviewer, curator and scholar. A former Graduate Fellow of Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC), he holds an MA in English from Brock University and will begin pursuing a doctorate in English at York University this autumn. His creative work can be found online and in print in journals such as Poetry is Dead, The Economy and fillingstation, and he has literary articles in Rampike and Open Letter. He lives in St Catharines, Ontario where he curates the Grey Borders Reading Series.

Peter Wright is Reader in Speculative Fictions at Edge Hill University. He is author of Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader (2003), co-editor of...

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