Contributors
- Contributors
Christine Acham is assistant professor in the African American and African Studies Program at the University of California at Davis. She received her PhD from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television. She is author of Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power (University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
Dorian Bowen has been studying film since age eleven and received her undergraduate degree from Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. An undeterred veteran of the indirect path to success, she has equal experience in film production, archiving, history, and theory.
Emmanuël Colinet works as consultant in business intelligence for the Caisse de depot et de placement du Québec in Montreal and is a 2004 graduate of the Masters in Information Science program at the École de Bibliothéconomie et des Sciences de l’Information, University of Montreal.
Douglas A. Cunningham just completed an assignment as assistant professor in the Department of English and Fine Arts at the U.S. Air Force Academy and now lives in Seoul, South Korea. He is currently working on a book about the history, films, and cultural politics of the U.S. Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit.
Dr. Raymond Fielding is dean emeritus at the Florida State University Film School, where he served as the founding permanent dean for thirteen years. Over the past forty-six years, he has served as professor or administrator at five different university film schools and, with his colleagues, founded three of those schools. The author of four books, two monographs, and numerous articles on film history and technology, he is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the SMPTE, and a recipient of the Eastman Kodak Gold Medal of the SMPTE. He has spent more than fifty years in the film and television industries as a writer, producer, and director, and continues to serve as historical consultant and on-camera commentator for the PBS, CBC, BBC, and French Television networks.
Jeanne Garane is associate professor of French at the University of South Carolina, where she teaches courses on francophone literature and film, postcolonial theory, and comparative literary studies. She has published a number of essays and literary translations and is working on a book about postcolonial autobiographies and the construction of space.
James Hahn is curator of the Twentieth Century Fox Nitrate Collection at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles. He graduated from The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation in 1999 and is currently the chairman of the Nitrate Film Interest Group in the Association of Moving Image Archivists.
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 PhD from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, and a Masters 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.
Mark Langer teaches film studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is a frequent contributor to academic journals and has programmed dozens of animation retrospectives for museums, archives, and film festivals.
Lindy Leong is a PhD candidate in the UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media. She is working on a dissertation introducing and examining the politics and cultures of moving image archiving and preservation in Southeast Asia. Aside from her academic pursuits, she is an aspiring film archivist and currently works for the Academy Film Archive in Hollywood, California.
Jeff Martin is a recent graduate from New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. Before coming to NYU, he worked for several years as a writer and producer of documentary programming for such networks as A&E and The History Channel and as research coordinator for WPA Film Library in Chicago.
Mark Neumann is associate professor of communication at the University of South Florida, where he teaches courses in cultural studies. He has published articles on visual culture, documentary, visual...
