Film and Risk

Contributors

291 Contributors Jinhee Choi is a lecturer in film studies at King’s College London. She is the author of The South Korean Film Renaissance: Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs and the coeditor of Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema (with Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano) and The Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures (with Noël Caroll). Faye Ginsburg is director of the Center for Media, Culture and History and codirector of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University, where she is also the David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology. Author/ editor of four books—most recently Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain with Lila Abu Lughod and Brian Larin—she is also the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a MacArthur “genius” grant. She was a Phi Beta Kappa scholar in 2008–9. Bill Grantham is an entertainment attorney in Los Angeles. He is the author of “Some Big Bourgeois Brothel”: Contexts for France’s Culture Wars with Hollywood and a number of articles on law, cinema, and culture. Mette Hjort is the chair professor and head of visual studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, an affiliate professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Washington–Seattle, and an honorary professor at CEMES, University of Copenhagen. She is the author of The Strategy of Letters ; Small Nation, Global Cinema; Stanley Kwan’s “Center Stage”; and Lone Scherfig’s “Italian for Beginners.” She is the editor or coeditor of Rules and Conventions, Emotion and the Arts (with Sue Laver), Cinema and Nation (with Scott MacKenzie), Purity and Provocation (with Scott MacKenzie), The Postnational Self (with Ulf Hedetoft), The Cinema of Small Nations 292 Contributors (with Duncan Petrie), Dekalog 01: On The Five Obstructions, and Instituting Cultural Studies: Creativity and Academic Activism (with Meaghan Morris). She has published two interview books with film directors, most recently Danish Directors 2 (with Eva Jørholt and Eva Novrup Redvall). Paisley Livingston is the chair professor and head of philosophy at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He is the author of numerous books, including Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman, Art and Intention: A Philosophical Study, Literature and Rationality: Ideas of Agency in Theory and Fiction, and Literary Knowledge: Humanistic Inquiry and the Philosophy of Science. He is coeditor of the Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film (with Carl Plantinga) and The Creation of Art: New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics (with Berys Gaut). Sylvia J. Martin earned her PhD in anthropology from the University of California–Irvine in 2009. She is currently a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hong Kong, where she is conducting ethnographic research on cultural production across the Pacific Rim region. In 2009–10 Dr. Martin was a visiting assistant professor of media studies at Babson College. She has published on film/TV production processes, cultural identity, and globalization. Richard Maxwell is a professor and chair of the Department of Media at City University of New York–Queens College. He is the author of Herbert Schiller, The Spectacle of Democracy: Spanish Television, Nationalism, and Political Transition, the coauthor of Global Hollywood 2 (with Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Ting Wang), and the editor of Culture Works: The Political Economy of Culture. Toby Miller is distinguished professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California–Riverside. He currently directs the University of California’s study-abroad program in Mexico. He is the author of numerous books, including The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject, Contemporary Australian Television (with Stuart Cunningham), The Avengers, Technologies of Truth: Cultural Citizenship and the Popular Media, Popular Culture and Everyday Life (with Alec McHoul), Global Hollywood (with Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Maxwell), and Cultural Policy (with George Yúdice). His edited or coedited books include SportCult (with Randy Martin), A Companion to Film Theory (with Robert Stam), Film and Theory: An Anthology (with Robert Stam), and A Companion to Cultural Studies. Contributors 293 Hamid Naficy is the John Evans Professor of Communication, teaching screen cultures courses in the Department of Radio, Television, and Film at Northwestern University. His areas of research and teaching include documentary and ethnographic films; cultural studies of diaspora, exile, and postcolonial cinemas and media; and Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas . He has published extensively on these and allied topics. His Englishlanguage books are An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking, Home, Exile, Homeland: Film...