Hollywood’s Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema

Contributors

245 Contributors Daniel Bernardi is Professor and Chair of the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University (SFSU). He is also the Director of the Documentary Film Institute at SFSU. Bernardi’s research explores the representation and narration of cultural difference, including race, gender, and sexuality, in media and popular culture. He is currently extending this work to address the cultural dimensions of counterinsurgency operations, where he uses critical theory, narratology, and ethnography to study rumors as narrative IEDs. He is the author of Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a White Future (1998), co-author of Explosive Narratives: Rumors, Islamist Extremism , and the Struggle for Strategic Influence (2012), editor of four books on whiteness in American cinema, and the author of numerous articles on early cinema, U.S. television, and new media. Vincent Brook teaches media studies at UCLA, USC, Cal-State Los Angeles , and Pierce College. He has written numerous journal articles, anthology essays, and encyclopedia entries; edited the anthology You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture; and authored two books: Something Ain’t Kosher Here: The Rise of the “Jewish” Sitcom and Driven to Darkness: Jewish Émigré Directors and the Rise of Film Noir. Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies and a professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and, with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. His newest books include Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia and A Short History of Film, the latter written with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. As a filmmaker, his complete works are in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, following a career retrospective there in 2003. 246 Contributors Lucy Fischer is a Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where she serves as director of the Film Studies Program . She is the author or editor of eight books: Jacques Tati; Shot/Countershot : Film Tradition and Women’s Cinema; Imitation of Life; Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genre; Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans; Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form; Stars: The Film Reader, and American Cinema of the 1920s: Themes and Variations. She has edited Teaching Film for the Modern Language Association (with Patrice Petro). She has held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art (New York City) and The Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), and has been the recipient of both a National Endowment for the Arts Art Critics Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Professors. She has served as president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2001–3) and in 2008 received its Distinguished Service Award. Lester D. Friedman is professor and chair of the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. His most recent publications include Citizen Spielberg; Cultural Sutures: Media and Medicine; American Cinema of the 1970s: Themes and Variations; the second edition of Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism; and The Picture of Health. Co-editor of the multivolume series Screen Decades: American Culture/ American Cinema, he is currently working on an introductory text about film genres and a health and humanities reader. Sumiko Higashi is professor emeritus in the Department of History at SUNY Brockport. She is the author of Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture : The Silent Era and Virgins, Vamps, and Flappers: The American Silent Movie Heroine, as well as essays on film history as cultural history, women in film and television, and film as historical representation. Currently she is working on a study about stars, fans, and consumption in the 1950s. Sarah Kozloff is Professor of Film on the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair at Vassar College. Her publications include Invisible Storytellers: Voice-Over Narration in American Fiction Film, Overhearing Film Dialogue, and the BFI Film Classics volume on William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives. Peter Krämer is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich and a regular guest lecturer at Masaryk University in Brno. He has published more than fifty essays on American film and media history and on the relationship between Hollywood and Europe in Screen, The Velvet Light Trap, Theatre History Studies, the Historical Journal of 247 Contributors Film, Radio and Television, History Today, Film Studies, Scope, Sowi: Das Journal für Geschichte, Politik, Wirtschaft...