Contributors
- Contributors
Alex Bevan is a lecturer in media studies at Massey University. Her research is on national memory and industry histories, with a focus on television production design. She has published on the aesthetics of nostalgia in Mad Men and remakes of 1950s family sitcoms, and is currently working on a book titled Designing Nostalgia: Memory for the Boomer Era in TV Production Design.
James Castonguay is a professor of communication and media studies at Sacred Heart University. He has published on war and media in American Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Velvet Light Trap, Bad Subjects, Discourse, and global-e, and in the anthologies Hollywood and War: The Film Reader, Rethinking Global Security, and Truth Claims. Castonguay is a contributing writer for the human rights magazine Witness, and he collaborates with the nonprofit Vision Project on multimedia documentaries that focus on issues of social justice. He received the 2009 Service Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Jorie Lagerwey is a lecturer in television studies at University College Dublin. Her primary research interests are representations of gender and religion on television, and television genre. She is currently writing a book titled Brand Mom: “Real” Motherhood in Postfeminist TV and Digital Culture, about mothers in “quality” reality and online brands. Her work has appeared in Studies in Popular Culture, Spectator, Flowtv.org, In Media Res, and Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture.
Diane Negra is professor of film studies and screen culture and head of Film Studies at University College Dublin. She is coeditor of Extreme Weather and Global Media (with Julia Leyda; Routledge, 2015), and her current project is The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness. She is coeditor of Television and New Media.
Stephen Shapiro teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. His publications include The Wire: Race, Class, and Genre (with Liam Kennedy); a translation of Françoise Guéry and Didier Deleule’s The Productive Body (with Philip Barnard); How to Read Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (with Anne Schwan); and the Warwick Research Collective’s forthcoming Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature. Other work includes The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System and editions of Charles Brockden Brown’s novels and Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Lindsay Steenberg is senior lecturer in film studies at Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on violence and gender in postmodern and postfeminist media culture. She has published on the crime genre and reality television, and is the author of Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture: Gender, Crime, and Science. [End Page 159]
Yvonne Tasker is professor of film and television studies at the University of East Anglia. She has published widely on gender and popular genres in film and television. Her most recent books are Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity (edited with Diane Negra; Duke University Press, 2014) and Hollywood Action and Adventure Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015). She is currently working on issues of gender in US crime television. [End Page 160]
