Acting for America: Movie Stars of the 1980s

Contributors

C O N T R I B U TO R S AARON BAKER is an associate professor of Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film (2006) and The Films of Steven Soderbergh (forthcoming). REBECCA BELL-METEREAU directs the Media Studies Minor at Texas State University and has authored Hollywood Androgyny (1986), Simone Weil (1998), and numerous chapters and articles in anthologies, Cinema Journal, and Journal of Popular Film and Television. WILLIAM BROWN is a lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. His research interests include digital technology, cinema , and the stars. He has published a range of book chapters and articles, including a chapter on Audrey Hepburn in Larger Than Life: Movie Stars of the 1950s (forthcoming). MICHAEL DeANGELIS is an associate professor at DePaul University’s School for New Learning, where he teaches in the areas of media and cultural studies . He is currently writing a history of art cinema and exhibition practices in Chicago during the 1960s and 1970s. ROBERT EBERWEIN is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Oakland University. Recent books include The Hollywood War Film (2009) and Armed Forces: Masculinity and Sexuality in the American War Film (2007). KRIN GABBARD is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University. He is the author most recently of Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz and American Culture (2008) and the coeditor of Screening Genders (2008). CHRIS HOLMLUND is a professor of cinema studies, women’s studies, and French at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. She is also chair of the Cinema Studies Program and author and editor of several books on film, including American Cinema of the 1990s (2008). ADAM KNEE is an associate professor at the Wim Kee Wim School of Communication and Information at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University . He has previously published essays on the intersection of stardom, masculinity, and race in such anthologies as Screening the Male (1993) and Soundtrack Available (2002). 279 ★★★★★★★★★★ ✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩ CHRISTINA LANE is an associate professor in film studies at the University of Miami. She is the author of Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break (2000) and essays in the anthologies Culture, Trauma, and Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on War (2007), Contemporary American Independent Film (2004), and The West Wing (2003). LINDA MIZEJEWSKI is a professor of women’s studies at Ohio State University. Her most recent books are It Happened One Night (2010), part of the WileyBlackwell Studies in Film and Television, and Hardboiled and High Heeled: The Woman Detective in Popular Culture (2004). JAMES MORRISON is a professor of literature and film studies at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author, co-author, or editor of several books on film, most recently Roman Polanski (2007) and The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All That Heaven Allows (2006). JERRY MOSHER is an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Electronic Arts at California State University, Long Beach. His research focuses on American cinema and its representations of the body. He has published essays on film and culture in numerous anthologies. 280 CONTRIBUTORS ...