Contributors
- Contributors
David Andrews has taught on four college campuses and has published pieces on film and video in Cinema Journal, The Journal of Film and Video, Film Criticism, The Journal of Popular Culture, Post Script, Television and New Media, Hunger, and Bridge. His book Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts (Ohio State University Press, 2006) is the first survey of American softcore cinema. He is now at work on his third book, Aestheticism and Pornography: A Theory of Contemporary Art Cinema.
Kevin John Bozelka is a Ph.D. candidate in the Radio Television Film Department at the University of Texas–Austin. His dissertation concerns the integrated musical number in post–1970 Hollywood cinema.
Peter Lehman is Director of the Center for Film and Media Research and Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University, Tempe. He is editor of Pornography: Film and Culture.
Kaarina Nikuneb, Dr. Soc. Sc., is Lecturer in Media Culture at University of Tampere, Finland. Her research focuses on television, fan cultures, and popular publicity and she is, together with Susanna Paasonen and Laura Saarenmaa, editor of the anthologies Our Daily Porn (in Finnish) and Pornification (Berg, forthcoming).
Susanna Paasonen, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in Digital Culture at University of Jyväskylä and Reader in Media Culture at University of Tampere, Finland. Currently researching online pornography and affect, she is the author of Figures of Fantasy (Peter Lang, 2005) and co-editor of Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet (Peter Lang, 2002).
Ragan Rhyne is a doctoral candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University, where she is completing a dissertation on gay and lesbian film festivals.
Jacob Smith is a lecturer in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. His manuscript, Vocal Tracks: Modern Vocal Performance in the Sound Media, is an examination of the styles of vocal performance that developed in tandem with sound media technologies and is forthcoming from the University of California Press. He has also published articles on media history and performance in journals such as Film Quarterly, Film Criticism, Television and New Media, and Journal of Popular Music Studies.
Olivier Tchouaffe received his Ph.D. in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin in the Fall of 2006. He is originally from Cameroon. His concentration includes film studies and critical cultural studies, minorities and media as well as international communication and globalization. His dissertation title is “Cameroonian Cinema and the films of Jean-Marie Teno: Reflexion on Cinematic Protest, Archives and Postcolonial Fever”.
Linda Williams is a professor in the Departments of Film Studies and Rhetoric at University of California–Berkeley. She is the author of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visible and Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson. She has also edited Porn Studies.
Catherine Zuromskis is a visiting assistant professor of 20th century art at the University of California–Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. from the Program for Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Her doctoral thesis is titled “Intimate Exposures: The Public and Private Lives of Snapshot Photography,” and her work addresses photography and affect in twentieth-century American visual culture.
