About the contributors
- About the contributors
Tom Abba is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England. A new media practitioner and theorist, his work has also included narrative illustration, graphic design and critical journalism, the latter addressing the convergence of psychogeography, genre fiction and new media forms. A Trustee of the Science Fiction Foundation, he is a member of UWE's Play Research Group and its Digital Cultures Research Centre. He maintains a research blog at www.tomabba.com/otherthings.
M. Keith Booker is the James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professor of English and the Director of the Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Arkansas. He has published more than thirty books on literature, film, television and literary and cultural theory. His current research interests focus on sf, cultural studies, comic books, graphic novels and the politics of children's culture.
Catherine Chaput is an Assistant Professor at Brock University. Her research focuses on the relationship between rhetoric and political economy as it manifests within particular social, cultural and political texts. She is the author of Inside the Teaching Machine (2008) and has published in journals such as College Composition and Communication, College English, JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory and Radical Pedagogy.
John R. Cook is Reader in Media at Glasgow Caledonian University. His research on Peter Watkins has been disseminated via journal articles, international symposia and voice-over commentaries and special features for the DVD release of Watkins' 1964 BBC TV film, Culloden. He is also the author of Dennis Potter: A Life on Screen (1995; revised 1998) and co-editor of The Passion of Dennis Potter: International Collected Essays (2000) and British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide (2005).
Cynthia Erb is Associate Professor of Film and English at Wayne State University in Detroit. A second, revised edition of her book, Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture is forthcoming.
Paul Grainge is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Monochrome Memories: Nostalgia and Style in Retro America (2002) and Brand Hollywood: Selling Entertainment in a Global Media Age (2008). He is also co-author of Film Histories: An Introduction and Reader (2007) and editor of Memory and Popular Film (2003).
Michael Grant was, until his retirement, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent. He has published on literature and cinema, especially the cinema of horror. His books include T. S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage (1982), Dead Ringers (1997) and The Modern Fantastic: The Films of David Cronenberg (2000).
Richard J. Hand, Professor of Theatre and Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan, is the author of Terror on the Air: Horror Radio in America, 1931–52 (2006) and The Theatre of Joseph Conrad: Reconstructed Fictions (2005) and a founding co-editor of the Journal [End Page 173] of Adaptation in Film and Performance. He has also co-written Grand-Guignol: the French Theatre of Horror (2002) and London's Grand-Guignol and the Theatre of Horror (2007) and co-edited Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Mutations in Horror Film (2007).
Carlos Kase is a PhD candidate in the Department of Critical Studies in The School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He is writing on experimental film of the 1960s and 70s, particularly as it relates to other media and art-making strategies of the period.
Jessica Langer recently completed her PhD, which focused on postcolonialism and sf, at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work has appeared in Asian Cinema, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film and the recent collection Digital Culture, Play and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader (2008), and she is a contributor to the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.
Iris Luppa is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at London South Bank University. She is the author of Weimar Cinema (2009) and has published several articles on Fritz Lang.
Mark A. McCutcheon researches Romantic and postcolonial contexts of popular culture. His work has appeared in University of Toronto Quarterly (2009), Borrowers and Lenders (2008), Popular Music (2007) and other journals. He has taught at Universities...
