Contributors
- Contributors
Christine Becker is associate professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in film and television history and critical analysis. Her book It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television (Wesleyan University Press, 2009) won the 2011 Michael Nelson Prize of the International Association for Media and History for a Work in Media and History. She is currently working on a research project comparing contemporary American and British television production and programming.
Tarik Ahmed Elseewi received his PhD in 2010 in the Department of Radio, Television and Film at the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation was on television and national identity in the new transnational broadcasting environment of the Arab Middle East. Elseewi’s research and teaching interests include the cultural history of broadcasting in the United States, postcolonial and globalization theory in media, and media in the Arab world. After four years as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting professor at Vassar College, he now teaches at Whitman College. He has published articles on the Danish cartoon controversy and the Arab uprisings in Global Media Journal and International Journal of Communication.
Derek Kompare is an associate professor in the Division of Film and Media Arts at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. In addition to many articles in journals and anthologies, he is the author of Rerun Nation: How Repeats Invented American Television (Routledge, 2005) and CSI (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), and is coeditor (with Derek Johnson and Avi Santo) of Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries (New York University Press, 2014).
Allison Perlman is an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Department of History at the University of California–Irvine. She is coeditor of Flow TV: Essays on a Convergent Medium (Routledge, 2010); other published works include articles in Feminist Media Studies, Television and New Media, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Communication, Culture, and Critique. She currently is completing a manuscript on the history of media advocacy in the United States.
Stephen Prince is a professor of cinema at Virginia Tech and a former president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. He is the author of numerous books on film history and theory that include Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality, Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism, and The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa. His audio commentaries can be found on the Criterion DVD/Bluray editions of the films of Akira Kurosawa and other directors. [End Page 183]
