Contributors
- Contributors
Snowden Becker is chair of the Small Gauge and Amateur Film interest group of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. She lives and works in Los Angeles where she is the public access coordinator for the Academy Film Archive.
Robert S. Birchard is a film editor by trade and a film historian by avocation. His articles have appeared in such publications as American Cinematographer, Film History, Griffithiana, and the Los Angeles Times Calendar. He is the author of King Cowboy: Tom Mix and the Movies and Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood.
Liz Czach has been a film programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival since 1995. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Rochester where she is completing her dissertation, “Careless Rapture: Artifacts and Archives of the Home Movie.” Her article on Polavision appeared in the fall 2002 issue of The Moving Image.
Richard L. Edwards is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for Communication.
Leo Enticknap has recently been appointed senior lecturer in media studies at the University of Teesside. Previously he was curator of the Northern Region Film and Television Archive. He holds an M.A. in film archiving from the University of East Anglia and a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter, with a thesis on nonfiction film and the 1945-1951 governments in Britain (which can be read at http://www.y030.fsnet.co.uk/leo/thesis.pdf).
Maureen Furniss is the founding editor of Animation Journal and author of Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics. She teaches at Savannah College of Art and Design. She is currently writing a book on experimental film production and editing two animation studies anthologies.
June Givanni is a program executive at the OFCOM (Regulators for the Television, Radio, and Telecommunications Industries) in the United Kingdom. Prior to working in television regulation, she worked at the British Film Institute where she ran the African Caribbean Unit and launched the quarterly Black Film Bulletin. She was one of the team of programmers for the Toronto International Film Festival for three years and has also worked in film development.
Sophia Siddique Harvey is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. She writes on Southeast Asian media.
Mark Haslam is the founder and festival director of the Planet in Focus: International Environmental Film and Video Festival based in Toronto, Canada. He has master’s degrees in environmental studies and film. Through his work as a documentary filmmaker and writer, he advocates for social and environmental justice.
Kay Hoffmann holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies from the University of Marburg, Germany, and his research includes questions of digitization as well as historical studies on film and television. Since 1994 he has worked for the Documentary Film Center (Stuttgart) and is currently completing a research project on nonfiction film in Germany before 1945. His books include Am Ende Video—Video am Ende, Natur und ihre filmische Auflösung, Cinema Futures: Cain, Able, or Cable?, Die Einübung des dokumentarischen Blicks, and Triumph der Bilder.
Jan-Christopher Horak is curator of the Hollywood Entertainment Museum, adjunct professor in critical studies at UCLA, and founding vice president of AMIA. He received his Ph.D. from the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany, and a master’s in film from Boston University. Horak is author of numerous books and articles, including Making Images Move: Photographers and Avant-Garde Cinema, Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945, and The Dream Merchants: Making and Selling Films in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
David Lemieux is the audiovisual archivist for the Grateful Dead, where he produces DVD and CD releases drawn from the band’s archives. Upon completion of his M.A. in film archiving from the University of East Anglia in 1998, he worked at the BC Archives in Victoria, and has been with the Grateful Dead since 1999. His article on the history of film archiving in Canada appeared in The Moving Image 2, no. 1. Additionally, he is the editor of the AMIA Newsletter.
Martin Loiperdinger, Dr. Phil., is professor of media studies at...
