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C O N T R I B U TO R S NORA ALTER is a professor at Temple University, where she is the chair of the FMA department. She is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage, Projecting History: Non-Fiction German Film, and Chris Marker. KAREN BECKMAN is a professor of cinema studies in the department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include Vanishing Women: Magic, Film and Feminism, Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis, Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography (co-edited with Jean Ma), and Picture This! Writing with Photography (co-edited with Liliane Weissberg, forthcoming). TIMOTHY CORRIGAN is a professor of cinema studies, English, and the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania. His recent books include The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker, Critical Visions in Film Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings (co-edited with Patricia White and Meta Mazaj), and Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader. ANNA EVERETT is a professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Along with numerous essays, she has published Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909–1949. A founding editor of the journal Screening Noir: A Journal of Film, Video and New Media Culture, she is currently at work on projects entitled “Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace” and “Inside the Dark Museum: An Anthology of Black Film Criticism, 1909–1959.” NIGEL MORRIS is principal lecturer in media theory and programme leader for BA Film and Television at the University of Lincoln, UK. His publications include The Cinema of Steven Spielberg: Empire of Light; his current research explores media representations of science and technology. DANA POLAN is a professor of cinema studies at New York University. He is the author of eight books including, most recently, Julia Child’s The French Chef. BOB REHAK is an assistant professor in film and media studies at Swarthmore College. He has published essays in the journals Film Criticism and Information , Communication, and Society as well as in the edited collections The Video Game Theory Reader, Videogame/Player/Text, and The Cybercultures Reader. 253 THOMAS SCHATZ is a professor of film and media studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of several books on American film, including Hollywood Genres, The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era, and Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s, and he has edited many others. He is currently writing a book-length study of conglomerate-era Hollywood. DINA SMITH is an associate professor of English at Drake University, where she teaches a variety of courses in cultural theory. She has published essays on Audrey Hepburn, the Guggenheim Museum, and mobile homes. LINDA RUTH WILLIAMS is a professor of film in the Department of English at the University of Southampton, UK. She is the author and editor of, among other books, The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema and Contemporary American Cinema (co-edited with Michael Hammond), as well as numerous articles on feminism, sexuality, censorship, and contemporary culture. She is now writing a book on childhood and Steven Spielberg. SHARON WILLIS is a professor of art history and visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester. Her books include Marguerite Duras: Writing on the Body, Male Trouble (co-edited with Constance Penley), and High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Cinema. Her current project is entitled “Islands in the Sun: The Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacies in Film, 1949–2003.” 254 CONTRIBUTORS ...

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