In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

311 philip brophy has directed experimental shorts such as Salt, Saliva, Sperm and Sweat and made his feature directorial debut with Body Melt. He composed the music and designed the sound for the feature Mallboy, as well as for numerous shorts. Many of his scores have been released on his own record label, Sound Punch. He is the founder and director of the CINESONIC International Conference on Film Scores and Sound Design and has edited three books from their proceedings. He has published articles on cinema in The Wire, Film Comment, and Real Time. His recent books include 100 Modern Soundtracks and 100 Anime Films. donald crafton is the Notre Dame Professor of Film and Culture in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, and the chairperson of the Department of Music. He was the founding director of the Yale Film Study Center and a director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. Among his books are The Talkies: American Cinema ’s Transition to Sound, 1926–1931 and two books on early animation, including Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898–1928. The World Festival of Animation presented him with an award for his contributions to animation theory, and he is the recipient of the Jean Mitry prize in film history. scott curtis is associate professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. He has published on a wide variety of topics, including early film theory, film sound, animation, Alfred Hitchcock, Douglas Fairbanks, the Motion Picture Patents Company, and scientific and industrial film. He also serves on the editorial board of Animation Journal. He is currently the president of Domitor, an international association dedicated to the study of early cinema. ethan de seife is assistant professor in the Department of Radio, Television, and Film at Hofstra University. He has written a book on the film This Is Spinal Tap, and his book on the films of Frank Tashlin, from which his essay in this book is excerpted, will be published by Wesleyan University Press in 2012. Contributors 312 Contributors daniel goldmark is associate professor in the Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University. He is series editor of the Oxford Music/Media Series and is the author and/or editor of several books on animation, film, and music, including Tunes for ’Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon. henry jenkins is the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education at the University of Southern California, having moved there recently after serving as codirector of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including What Made Pistachio Nuts? Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic; Classical Hollywood Comedy; Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide; and the forthcoming Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture. j. b. kaufman is a film historian on the staff of the Walt Disney Family Foundation and has written extensively on Disney animation and American silent cinema. He is the author of South of the Border with Disney; and coauthor, with Russell Merritt, of Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney and Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series. charlie keil is director of the Cinema Studies Institute and associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907–1913; coeditor, with Shelley Stamp, of American Cinema’s Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices; and coeditor, with Ben Singer, of American Cinema of the 1910s: Themes and Variations. rob king is assistant professor of Cinema Studies and History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture; coeditor, with Tom Paulus, of Slapstick Comedy; and coeditor, with Richard Abel and Giorgio Bertellini, of Early Cinema and the “National.” mark langer teaches in the Film Studies program at Carleton University and is president of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations. He has published on animation in many journals and has curated numerous film programs internationally. richard neupert is Wheatley Professor of Film Studies and a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in Film Studies at the University of Georgia. His books include French Animation History; A History of the French New Wave Cinema; and The End. susan ohmer is assistant provost, interim director of the Hesburgh Libraries, and the William T...

Share