Contributors
- Contributors
Dennis Broe is graduate coordinator in the Media Arts Department at Long Island University. His articles on film and media theory have appeared in Framework, Social Justice, Science and Society, Newsday, and the Boston Phoenix. He is also a film critic for WBAI radio.
Noël Burch has taught at New York University and Ohio State University. A longtime resident of France, he made Sentimental Journey: Refuzniks USA (1994), about the Radical Left in the United States, and Red Hollywood (1996), with Thom Andersen, which explores the politics of blacklisted Hollywood screenwriters and directors. He is currently preparing a film with Allan Sekula on the political and libidinal economy of the sea in the context of capitalist globalization.
James Castonguay is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Media Studies and Digital Culture at Sacred Heart University.
Linda Dittmar is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She grew up in Israel and returns there frequently. Coeditor of From Hanoi to Hollywood: Vietnam in American Film (Rutgers University Press, 1990) and of Multiple Voices in Feminist Criticism (University of Minnesota Press, 1994), she is also a longtime member of the Editorial Group of Radical Teacher. Her current research focuses on Israeli antiwar documentaries.
Patricia Keeton is a professor of communication arts at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where she teaches cinema and media criticism. She is cochair of the Caucus on Class for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Her research interests include genre and social class representation and global media.
Anna McCarthy is an associate professor of cinema studies at New York University. She is the author of Ambient Television (Duke University Press, 2001) and coeditor, with Nick Couldry, of MediaSpace: Place, Scale, and Culture in a Media Age (Routledge, 2004).
Christopher Sharrett is a professor of communication at Seton Hall University. He is the editor of Crisis Cinema: The Apocalyptic Idea in Postmodern Narrative Film [End Page 135] (Maisonneuve Press, 1993) and Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media (Wayne State University Press, 1999). His writing has appeared in Cineaste, Cineaction, Millennium Film Journal, Persistence of Vision, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and numerous anthologies.
Louise Spence teaches media studies at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. Coauthor of Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, His Audiences (Rutgers University Press, 2000), she is currently at work on a book about the pleasures and displeasures of watching and talking about daytime soap operas. [End Page 136]
