Authorship in Film Adaptation

Notes on Contributors

Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz is associate professor of film studies and comparative literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He teaches film theory, film and literature, Spanish and Latin American cinemas, classic Hollywood genres, and courses on Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, Stanley Kubrick, and Alfred Hitchcock. His work has appeared in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Film & History, LIT, and various anthologies. He is the author of Pedro Almodóvar (BFI, 2007) and of Buñuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema (University of California Press, 2003). Rebecca Bell-Metereau teaches film studies at Texas State University and directs the Media Studies Minor Program. Her books include Hollywood Androgyny, Simone Weil on Politics, and Religion and Society. Shorter works have been published in anthologies, including Cinema and Modernity; American Cinema of the 1950s; Film and Television After 9/11; Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil and Slime on Screen; The Family in America; Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls; Writing With; Cultural Conflicts in 20th Century Literature; Technological Imperatives; Women Worldwalkers; and in scholarly journals, including College English, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Popular Film & Television, and Cinema Journal. Mark Berrettini is director of film studies and associate professor of English and film studies at the University of Northern Colorado. His research and publications include work on the representation of nonhuman animals, film noir, and social difference. He is currently at work on a book about Hal Hartley for the University of Illinois Press’s Contemporary Film Directors series. Jack Boozer is a professor in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where he has taught film studies, and feature screenwriting, and literature-to-film adaptation for many years. He is the NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS /////////////////////////////////////////// 326 notes on contributors author of Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique (University of Texas Press, 2002) and numerous articles and chapters in scholarly journals and anthologies. Most recently, his chapter on To Die For appeared in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence (Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2006). His essay “Movies and the Closing of the Reagan Era” appears in American Cinema of the 1980s: Themes and Variations , ed. Stephen Prince (Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007). Shelley Cobb is completing her doctoral thesis on the discourse of gender and authorship in fidelity criticism and adaptation studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, where she has worked as an associate tutor for both the School of Film and Television studies and the School of Literature and Creative Writing. She has presented several conference papers on adaptation, gender, and authorship and has forthcoming articles on Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth (1998) and Jane Campion. Mark Gallagher is lecturer in the Institute of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives (Palgrave) and is now working on a book on the films of Steven Soderbergh. His work has appeared in Velvet Light Trap, Jump Cut, the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, the Journal of Popular Film and Television, and other journals and anthologies. Albert J. LaValley holds a doctorate in English from Yale (1961), but he started teaching film at Rutgers and at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the late 1960s. He published an early anthology on Hitchcock (1970). He helped to establish the film studies program in the early 1970s at UC Santa Barbara, then moved to Dartmouth (1984), where he did the same, also establishing an independent department of film and television studies. While there he co-edited a book with Barry Scherr, Eisenstein at 100. He retired in 2000 but has since taught comparative literature courses at Dartmouth , film and television studies at Oklahoma University in Norman, and occasionally back at Santa Barbara as well. Thomas Leitch teaches English and directs the Film Studies program at the University of Delaware. His most recent books are Crime Films, Perry Mason, and Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ. notes on contributors 327 Cynthia Lucia is assistant professor of English and film studies at Rider University and has served on the editorial board of Cineaste for more than a decade. She is the author of Framing Female Lawyers: Women on Trial in Film (University of Texas...