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  • Contributors

Mashinka Firunts Hakopian is a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the media and performance group Research Service and a coeditor of Present Tense Pamphlets, a series devoted to score–based performance, released through Northwestern University and the Block Museum of Art.

Henry Jenkins is Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education at the University of Southern California. He has published seventeen books, including What Made Pistachio Nuts? Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic (Columbia University Press, 1992).

Anupama Kapse is associate professor of film studies at Loyola Marymount University. Her research and scholarship situate moving-image melodrama within a wider cultural history of the body, affect, ethics, and citizenship, with a focus on South Asia.

Emily Saidel is a doctoral candidate in communication studies at the University of Michigan. Her research areas include television studies and paratextual studies, with a focus on the representation of American government in fictional television programs.

Samantha N. Sheppard is the Mary Armstrong Meduski ’80 Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. She writes extensively on race in film and television.

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