Contributors
- Contributors
Peter Alilunas is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Oregon. His work has appeared in Media Fields, Camera Obscura, Screening the Past, Men and Masculinities, and Creative Industries Journal. He is currently completing a manuscript on the history of the adult film industry’s transition from film to video in the late 1970s.
Courtney Andree is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and the Program in Film & Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her dissertation is titled “Disabling Modernity: Disability and Sexuality in British Literature, Film and Culture, 1880–1939.”
Jing Jing Chang completed her PhD in modern Chinese history and a graduate minor in cinema studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is an assistant professor in global cinemas at Wilfrid Laurier University, English and Film Studies Department. Her research interests include postwar Hong Kong history, film studies, and postcolonial studies. She is currently working on a book on the colonial and gender politics of postwar Hong Kong Cantonese cinema.
David Church is the author of the forthcoming Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video, and Exploitation Film Fandom (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), the editor of Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin (University of Manitoba Press, 2009), and is currently at work on a book called Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema. He holds a PhD in communication and culture from Indiana University, where he also served as the former managing editor of Film History.
Mary Desjardins is an associate professor of film and media studies at Dartmouth College and has published essays on stardom, feminist filmmaking, and television and film history in many journals and books collections. She is coeditor of Dietrich Icon (2007) and author of Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television, forthcoming in 2015 from Duke University Press.
Chris O’Rourke is a research associate at University College London. He is currently researching the history of film exhibition and cinemagoing in interwar London. [End Page 156]
