Contributors
- Contributors
Lisa Jarvinen is Assistant Professor of History at La Salle University in Philadelphia. Her book, The Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking: Out from Hollywood's Shadow, 1929-1939, is forthcoming from Rutgers University Press. Her translation of Javier Herrera-Navarro's "The Decisive Moments of Buñuel's Years in the United States: 1938-1946, an Analysis of Previously Unpublished Letters" appeared in Peter William Evans and Isabel Santaolalla, eds., Luis Buñuel: New Readings (British Film Institute, 2004).
Mihaela Mihailova is a PhD student in the joint Film Studies and Slavic Languages and Literatures program at Yale University. Her academic interests include animation, film and media theory, early Soviet and contemporary Russian cinema, and translation. Her article on Anna Melikyan's 2007 film Mermaid, titled "'I am Empty Space': A Mermaid in Hyperreal Moscow," appears in Kino Kultura 34 (October 2011). She has also published book and film reviews.
Michael Raine has taught Film Studies and East Asian Studies at the Universities of Michigan, Yale, Chicago, and California-Berkeley, and he is Assistant Professor in Film Studies at the University of Western Ontario. He has published a number of articles on Japanese cinema, with a particular focus on the transition to sound, wartime cinema, and the new wave. He is currently finishing a manuscript, Modernism, Materiality, and Transcultural Mimesis: New Japanese Cinemas, 1955-1964.
Masha Salazkina is Concordia University Research Chair in Transnational Media Arts and Culture at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (Montreal, Canada). She is the author of In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and has published essays in Screen, Cinema Journal, and October. Salazkina is currently coediting a collection on sound in Soviet cinema and writing a book on the film cultures of the Soviet Union, Italy, and Cuba. [End Page 154]
