Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place

Contributors

255 Robert C. Allen is James Logan Godfrey Distinguished Professor of American Studies, History and Communication Studies, University of North Carolina. He has written on the history of U.S. radio and television (SpeakingofSoapOperas,1985),filmhistoryandhistoriography(Film History: Theory and Practice, 1985), and American popular theater of the nineteenthandearlytwentiethcentury(HorriblePrettiness:Burlesqueand American Culture, 1992). He is also the editor of To Be Continued: Soap Operas around the World (1995) and of two editions of the widely-used televisionanthologyChannelsofDiscourseandChannelsofDiscourseReassembled (1987, 1994). He is the co-editor of The Television Studies Reader (2004) and Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema (2007). A National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Fellow for 2008–2009, his digital project Going to the Show documents the history of moviegoing in North Carolina from 1896–1930 (http://docsouth.unc.edu/gtts/).In2011,GoingtotheShowreceivedthe Roy Rosenweig prize for innovation in digital history, awarded jointly by theAmericanHistoricalAssociationandtheCentreforHistoryandNew Media at George Mason University. Colin Arrowsmith is Associate Professor in the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences at RMIT University. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from RMIT as well as two master’s degrees from the University of Melbourne, and a Graduate Diploma of Education from Hawthorn Institute of Education. Colin has authored more than 40 refereed publications and six book chapters in the fields of GIS, tourism analysis and in film studies. His research interests include the applicaContributors 256 · Contr ibutors tionofgeospatialinformationsystems,includinggeographicinformation systems (GIS), geospatial science education, investigating the impact of tourism on nature-based tourist destinations, tourist behavior, as well as investigating the issue of managing micro-historical data within GIS utilizing cinema data. Colin is an editor for the Journal of Spatial Science, Member of the Surveying and Spatial Science Institute of Australia, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Daniel Biltereyst is Professor in film and cultural media studies at Ghent University, Belgium, where he leads the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (CIMS). His work on film and screen culture as sites of controversy and public debate has been published in many journals and edited volumes. He is the editor, with Richard Maltby and Philippe Meers, of Explorations in New Cinema History (2011) and of Cinema, Audiences and Modernity: New Perspectives on European Cinema History (2012). He is currently editing Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship around the World (with Roel Vande Winkel). Kate Bowles is a cinema historian at the University of Wollongong, specializing in the social history of rural cinema attendance in Australia. With colleagues Richard Maltby, Deb Verhoeven, Mike Walsh, Colin Arrowsmith, and Jill Julius Matthews, she is involved in the ongoing collection of data related to Australian cinemagoing history, in particular exploring the use of GIS and oral history methods to examine the social and trade logistics of Australia’s country cinemas. She has written widely on the historical process of cinemagoing in journals such asHistory Compass and Media International Australia and is currently co-authoring a book with Richard Maltby, Deb Verhoeven, and Mike Walsh titled The New Cinema History: A Guide for Researchers (forthcoming). Sébastien Caquard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography , Planning and Environment at Concordia University, Montréal. ForthelastfewyearsSébastienhasbeenexaminingthetechnological,artistic and scientific frontiers of cybercartography, more specifically in the emerging field of cinematic cartography. In his current research, he seeks to explore further the relationships between places and fictions through the development of new ways of categorizing, visualizing, and analyzing Contr ibutors · 257 cinematographic territories. Sébastien Caquard is also the chair of the Commissionon“ArtandCartography”oftheInternationalCartographic Association (ICA) (http://artcarto.wordpress.com/) and the co-founder of the collective blog (e)space & fiction. Julia Hallam isReaderinfilmandmediaandHeadoftheDepartment of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool U.K. She has written on women’s representation in the media (Nursing the Image: Media, Culture and Professional Identity, 2000), on women writers in the U.K. television industry (Lynda La Plante, 2005), on contemporary film aesthetics (Realism and Popular Cinema, 2000) and co-edited two collections of essays on popular fiction (Medical Fictions 1998, Consuming for Pleasure 2001). Her work has been published in journals such as Screen, Culture Theory and Critique and The Journal of British Cinema and Television ; she is a corresponding editor for Critical Studies in Television. Julia has contributed to numerous radio broadcasts and television programs including an eight part series celebrating the work of the first generation of writers at Granada Television (Those...