Contributors
- Contributors
Richard Abel is Robert Altman Collegiate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Michigan. His most recent books are The Red Rooster Scare: Making Cinema American, 1900-1910 (University of California Press, 1999), and, coedited with Rick Altman, The Sounds of Early Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2001). He is editing the Encyclopedia of Early Cinema and writing Imagining Community in U.S. Cinema, 1910-1914.
Donald Crafton teaches film at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931 (University [End Page 142] of California Press, 1997) and is currently working on Shadow of a Mouse, essays on animation in the 1930s, as well as a study of Joseph P. Kennedy's career in the film industry.
Jane M. Gaines, professor of literature and English and director of the Film/Video/ Digital Program at Duke University, is author of the award-winning Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era (University of Chicago Press, 2001). Currently she is working on Fictioning Histories: Women Film Pioneers.
Lee Grieveson is a lecturer in the Film Studies Program at King's College, University of London. He is the author of Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early Twentieth Century America (University of California Press, 2004) and coeditor, with Peter Krämer, of The Silent Cinema Reader (Routledge, 2004).
Sumiko Higashi is a professor emerita in the Department of History at the State University of New York, Brockport. She is the author of Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era (University of California Press, 1994) and has also written on women in film and film as historical representation. Currently she is experimenting with novel forms to write about film, history, and memory.
Charles Musser is the author of Edison Motion Pictures, 1890-1900: An Annotated Filmography (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997) and other books on early cinema. His documentary film Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982) is available commercially on videotape. Musser currently cochairs the Film Studies Program at Yale University.
Steven J. Ross is a professor of history at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Movies and American Society (Blackwell, 2002) and Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America (Princeton University Press, 1998). His current project is Hollywood Left and Right: Movie Stars and Politics.
Robert Sklar is a professor of cinema studies at New York University. Among his books are Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies, rev. and updated (Vintage, 1994), and Film: An International History of the Medium, 2d ed. (Prentice-Hall and Abrams, 2002).
Janet Staiger is the William P. Hobby Centennial Professor in Communication and teaches critical and cultural studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Her most recent books are Perverse Spectators (NYU Press, 2000), Blockbuster TV (NYU Press, 2000), and Authorship and Film (Routledge, 2003, coedited with David Gerstner). [End Page 143]
