The American Film Industry

List of Contributors

List of Contributors ROBERT C. ALLEN is Associate Professor in the Department ofRadio, Television and Motion Pictures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is co-author with Douglas Gomery ofFilm History: Theory and Practice and has completed a book on soap opera. ROBERT ANDERSON taught film as an Assistant Professor at Washington State University and is an independent filmmaker. TINO BALlO is Professor of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars and General Editor of the Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series. ERNEST BORNEMAN was Director of Distribution for the National Film Board of Canada. JOHN COGLEY was Executive Editor of The Commonweal and prepared the two-volume Report on Blacklisting for the Fund for the Republic. MICHAEL CONANT is Professor of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley , and author ofAntitrust in the Motion Picture Industry. A.R. FULTON taught film for many years in the Department of English at Purdue University . He now lives in Poughkeepsie, New York. 645 646 Contributors DOUGLAS GOMERY is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Theatre, University ofMaryland, the author ofHollywood Studio System, and co-author with Robert C. Allen ofFilm History: Theory and Practice. THOMAS H. GUBACK is Research Professor, Institute of Communication Research, University of Illinois-Urbana, and author of The International Film Industry: Western Europe America since 1945. ROBERT GUSTAFSON is Assistant Professor, Department ofCommunication and Theatre, George Washington University. GORDON HENDRICKS has done pioneering research on the origins of the American film. His latest contribution is Eadweard Maybridge: The Father of the Motion Picture. He resides in New York City. MAE HUETTIG received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and conducted her research for Economic Control ofthe Motion Picture Industry under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. RUTH A. INGLIS is the author of Freedom ofthe Movies. CATHY ROOT KLAPRAT is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently completing a dissertation on Val Lawton's RKO Horror Films. DAVID J. LONDONER is a financial analyst for Wertheim & Co. Inc. Contributors 647 RUSSELL MERRITT is Professor of Communication Arts and Director, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison. RICHARD S. RANDALL is Associate Professor, Department of Politics, New York University and author of Censorship ofthe Movies: the Social and Political Control ofa Mass Medium. JANET STAIGER is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies, New York University and is co-author with David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson of The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode ofProduction to 1960. ...