Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen

CONTRIBUTORS

Aaron Baker teaches at Arizona State University. He has published essays about Italian American cinema and about the representation of social identity in sports, and is the author of Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film (Illinois). Rebecca Bell-Metereau teaches film at Southwest Texas State University and directs the interdisciplinary Media Studies Program. She had a Fulbright to study media in Senegal (1999–2000), and she has published Hollywood Androgyny (Columbia); Simone Weil: On Politics, Religion and Society (Sage); and chapters and articles in Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century; Writing With; Cultural Conflicts in Twentieth Century Literature; Deciding Our Future: Technological Imperatives; Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy; College English; Journal of Popular Film and Television; and Cinema Journal. She has also served as Special Assistant to the President at Southwest Texas State University and campus director for -ISM, a nationwide Ford Foundation grant to incorporate diversity and media literacy in the curriculum. Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Series Editor for the State University of New York Press Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. His newest books are Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema (SUNY), Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema (Wallflower), The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image (SUNY), Film Genre 2000: New Critical Essays (SUNY), and Collected Interviews: Voices from 20th Century Cinema (Southern Illinois). Film and Television After 9/11 is forthcoming from Southern Illinois. Alexander Doty is a Professor in the English Department at Lehigh University , Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He has written Making Things Perfectly Queer: C O N T R I B U T O R S ��� 331 Interpreting Mass Culture and Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon (both from Routledge), as well as co-edited Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays on Popular Culture (Duke). More recently, he has presented a clip-andlecture show based on Flaming Classics at lesbian and gay film festivals across the country. Kirby Farrell’s latest book is Post-Traumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretation in the 90s (Johns Hopkins), which examines the idea of trauma and reads a variety of texts from late-Victorian fiction to contemporary black women writers, political memoirs, and recent films. His other work includes several books on Shakespeare and several novels. He is an editor of English Literary Renaissance, the European journal Kritikon, and several collections of Renaissance studies. He is currently working on The Beserk Style in American Culture. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, specializing in Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Postfeminist Critical Theory. Her recent books include Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/constructions in the Cinema (SUNY), Captive Bodies: Postcolonial Subjectivity in Cinema (SUNY), The Films of Chantal Akerman (Flicks), and Troping the Body: Etiquette, Conduct and Dialogic Performance (Southern Illinois). Dr. Foster is also an editor-in-chief of Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Lester D. Friedman has a joint senior appointment in the Program in Medical Humanities and Bioethics (Medical School) and the Department of Radio/TV/Film (School of Communication) at Northwestern University. He is the author/editor of many books and articles, including: Hollywood’s Image of the Jew (Ungar), Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema (Illinois ), American Jewish Filmmakers (co-author; Illinois), Fires Were Started: British Film and Thatcherism (Minnesota), and Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (Cambridge). His latest book, Cultural Sutures: Medicine, Morals and Media, forthcoming from Duke, examines the intimate connections between healthcare and mass communication systems. Currently, Dr. Friedman is finishing a book on the films of director Steven Spielberg. With Murray Pomerance he is co-editor of the Screen Decades Series from Rutgers University Press. Cynthia Fuchs is Associate Professor of English, Film and Media Studies, and African American Studies at George Mason University. She is film, video, and TV editor for PopMatters (at popmatters.com), and weekly film reviewer for the Philadelphia Citypaper (citypaper.net), Nitrate (nitrateonline .com), Reel Images Magazine (reelimagesmagazine.com), and Pop Politics (poppolitics.com). She is co-editor of Between the Sheets, in the Streets: Queer, 332 BAD Lesbian, Gay Documentary (Minnesota) has recently published Interviews: Spike Lee...