Contributors
- Contributors
Richard Abel is Robert Altman Collegiate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Michigan. His most recent books are Americanizing the Movies and "Movie-Mad" Audiences, 1910-1914 (2006), Early Cinema and the "National" (2008), and Encyclopedia of Early Cinema (paperback, 2010). His current projects include Early Cinema, four volumes of reprints (Routledge, 2013), and Menus for Movie Land: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913-1916.
Charles R. Acland is professor and research chair in communication studies, Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence (2012) and editor, with Haidee Wasson, of Useful Cinema (2011). With Katie Russell, Acland edits the Canadian Journal of Film Studies.
Ian Christie teaches at Birkbeck College, London, and at the Palacky University, Olomouc, in the Czech Republic, where he is leading a project on "representing history." Recent publications include studies of film's cultural impact in the United Kingdom and the edited collection Audiences. He is also completing a book on the early moving picture business in Britain.
Donald Crafton is the Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He recently coauthored (with David Nathan) "The Making and Remaking of Gertie (1914)" in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. His latest book is Shadow of a Mouse: Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation (California).
Scott Curtis is associate professor of radio/TV/film at Northwestern University. He has published widely on the scientific use of film. He is currently the president of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema.
Lucy Fischer is distinguished professor of English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author or editor of nine books: Jacques Tati; Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women's Cinema; Imitation of Life; Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genre; Sunrise; Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form; Stars: The Film Reader; Teaching Film; and Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema. [End Page 248]
Jane M. Gaines is professor of film, Columbia University. She is the author of two award-winning books, Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law (1991) and Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era (2001), and coedited collections on documentary, cultural theory, and silent "race" movies. Currently she is completing Fictioning Histories with an Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences scholarly grant, as well as the online database Women Film Pioneers Project to be published by Columbia University Libraries.
André Gaudreault is a full professor in the Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études cinématographiques at the Université de Montréal, where he is director of GRAFICS (Groupe de recherche sur l'avènement et la formation des institutions cinématographique et scénique). He has been a guest professor at several universities (including Bologna, Buenos Aires, Paris, São Paulo, Lausanne, Rennes, and Santiago de Compostela) and has published volumes on film narratology (including From Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema, 2009) and film history (including American Cinema, 1890-1909, editor, 2009; Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema, 2011; and The Blackwell Companion to Early Cinema, coeditor, 2012). He is also editor of the scholarly journal Cinémas.
Alison Griffiths is professor of film and media at Baruch College, The City University of New York, and a member of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture (Columbia, 2002), Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View (Columbia, 2008), and essays on visual culture, museums, and medieval image making. She is working on a book entitled Screens Behind Bars: Cinema, Prisons, and the Making of Modern America, which examines the penitentiary as a unique yet overlooked space of film exhibition and reception.
Sabine Hake is the Texas Chair in the department of Germanic studies at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of six monographs, including German National Cinema (2008, second revised edition), Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin (2008...
