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  • Contributors

Geoffrey Baym is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of From Cronkite to Colbert: The Evolution of Broadcast News (Oxford University Press, 2010) and coeditor of News Parody and Political Satire (Routledge, 2012).

Heather Hendershot is editor of Cinema Journal and author of Saturday Morning Censors: Television Regulation before the V-Chip (Duke University Press, 1998), Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2004), and What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Robert Glenn Howard is Director of Digital Studies and Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author of Digital Jesus: The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet (New York University Press, 2011).

Jeffrey P. Jones is Director of the Institute of Humanities at Old Dominion University. He is the author of Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Political Engagement (Rowman and Littlefield, 2nd ed., 2010) and coeditor of News Parody and Political Satire across the Globe (Routledge, 2012), Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era (New York University Press, 2009), and The Essential HBO Reader (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008).

Laurie Ouellette teaches in the Department of Communications Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Viewers Like You? How Public TV Failed the People (Columbia University Press, 2002), coauthor of Better Living through Reality TV (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), and coeditor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (New York University Press, 2nd ed., 2008).

Allison Perlman is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies and History at the University of California, Irvine. She is coeditor of Flow TV: Television in the Age of Convergent Media (Routledge, 2010). Her work has appeared in Feminist Media Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Television and New Media, and the Journal of Popular Film and Television.

Christopher Sharrett is Professor of Communication and Film Studies at Seton Hall University. His most recent book is a monograph on the 1950s TV Western, The Rifleman (Wayne State University Press, 2005). [End Page 205]

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