Contributors
- Contributors
Richard Abel is professor emeritus of international film and media studies at the University of Michigan. His most recent books include Americanizing the Movies and “Movie-Mad” Audiences, 1910–1914 (2006), Early Cinema and the “National” (coedited, 2008), Encyclopedia of Early Cinema (edited and revised paperback, 2010), and Early Cinema (four edited volumes, 2014). Menus for Movie Land: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913–1916 was published in September 2015.
Donna de Ville earned her PhD in communication studies at Concordia University in June 2014. Her dissertation, entitled “The Microcinema Movement and Montreal,” synthesizes her research interests in film exhibition history; DIY cultural practices; fandom and subcultures; and the political, economic, and sociocultural influences and implications of film exhibition in the urban environment. She has published work in Scope, Incite, and the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, as well as a chapter in Cinema Inferno: Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins.
Kit Hughes is an assistant professor of media, journalism, and film at Miami University where she researches industrial media, television history, and archival theory and practice. Her book-length project examines the crucial role American business played in the development of television as a technology of efficiency, orientation, and corporate expansion. Her work has appeared in Media, Culture and Society, Television & New Media, American Archivist, and Film Criticism.
Dimitrios Latsis is CLIR-Mellon postdoctoral fellow in visual data curation at the Internet Archive in San Francisco and a visiting research fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his PhD in film studies from the University of Iowa in 2015 and is currently working on a book chronicling the rapport between early cinema and art in the representation of the American landscape. His work in visual culture, film, and art history has appeared in numerous journals, including Amerikastudien, Journal of Art Historiography, [End Page 180] Transatlantica, and Third Text. He has been a fellow at the Smithsonian Institution and was the recipient of Domitor’s 2015 graduate essay prize.
Diane Waldman is an associate professor in the Media, Film, and Journalism Studies Department at the University of Denver. She is the coeditor (with Janet Walker) of Feminism and Documentary (University of Minnesota Press, 1999) and the author of various essays on feminism and film history, film and social history, and popular culture and the law. [End Page 181]
