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  • Contributors

Jacqueline Brady teaches writing and cultural studies in the English department of Long Island University's Brooklyn campus. Since September 11, 2001, she has taught "Critically Reading the New War on Terrorism," "Critically Reading the Media," "Writing for Social Change," and "Writing as Fighting for Community."

Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies and a professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is also the editor of the SUNY Press series Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video, the editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and the author or editor of twenty books, including Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema (Wallflower Press, 2003).

Henry A. Giroux is a professor at Pennsylvania State University. His most recent books include Stealing Innocence: Youth Corporate Power and the Politics of Culture (St. Martin's, 2001); Public Spaces, Private Lives: Democracy beyond 9/11 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002); and The Abandoned Generation. Democracy beyond the Culture of Fear (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

Henry Jenkins is the director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the author or editor of nine books, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Routledge, 1992) and Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2003).

Sarah Projansky is an associate professor of cinema studies and gender and women's studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture (NYU Press, 2001) and coeditor of Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on "Star Trek" (Westview, 1996).

B. Ruby Rich is an adjunct professor of film studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The author of Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement (Duke University Press, 1998), she is at work on a new book, Film after 9/11: The Geopolitics of the Movies.

Louise Spence lives in New York City and teaches at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. She is the coauthor (with Pearl Bowser) of Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, His Audience (Rutgers University Press, 2000) and is working on a book about the pleasures of daytime soap operas. [End Page 127]

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