Contributors
- Contributors
Daniel Bernardi is an associate professor at Arizona State University. He is the author of Star Trek and History: Raceing Toward a White Future (1998) and the editor of The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of US Cinema (1996) and Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness (2002). A new book titled The Persistence of Whiteness: Race and Contemporary Cinema is forthcoming.
Jose Capino is assistant professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Katrien Jacobs is a scholar, curator, and artist in the field of new media and sexuality and works as assistant professor at City University of Hong Kong. She was born in Belgium and received her PhD degree in comparative literature and media from the University of Maryland, with a thesis on dismemberment myths and rituals in 1960s/1970s body art and performance media. She has organized several conferences and art events in recent years and has published in Paralax and Cultural Studies. She recently finished a book entitled Libi_doc: Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art. Her new book "NetPorn: DIY Web Culture and Sexual Politics" analyzes the boom of indie porn on the Internet and is forthcoming.
Chuck Kleinhans is co-editor of Jump Cut (www.ejumpcut.org). He teaches in the Radio/TV/Film Department and Screen Cultures PhD program at Northwestern University. Among his new and forthcoming articles: the economics of blockbusters and indie films in the early 1990s, experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, documentary film alibis for porn content, audio documentary, and the political economy of the Hong Kong/Hollywood connection.
Peter Lehman is director of the Center for Film, Media, and Popular Culture at Arizona State University, Tempe. He is author of Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body and editor of Pornography: Film and Culture. [End Page 131]
Thomas Waugh has, since 1976, been teaching film studies at Concordia University, Montreal, where he has also developed curriculum on HIV/AIDS and in queer studies. He has edited three volumes of vintage homoerotic graphics for Arsenal Pulp Press, as well as three monographs on queer film, video, and photo history for university presses (1996, 2000, 2006). His most recent book is The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas (600 pages, 120 illustrations; Foreword by Bruce LaBruce).
Linda Williams is professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at U.C. Berkeley. Her edited books include Re-vision: Essays in Feminist Film Criticism (1984), Viewing Positions (1993), Reinventing Film Studies (with Christine Gledhill, 2000), and Porn Studies (2004). In 1989 she published Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible" (2nd ed., 1999) and in 2001 Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White, from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson. She is just completing a book entitled Screening Sex. [End Page 132]
