Contributors
- Contributors
Jaimie Baron is a doctoral student in critical studies in the UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media. She is currently working on a dissertation concerning contemporary documentary film, historiographic theory, and the archive.
Rachel Bicicchi is a doctoral student in media and cultural studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Andrea Comiskey is a graduate student in film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her academic interests include the related histories of film exhibition and spectatorship in the United States.
Michael Curtin is professor of media and cultural studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics (Rutgers University Press, 1995) and Playing to the World’s Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV (University of California Press, 2007). He is also coeditor of BFI’s International Screen Industries book series.
Leger Grindon is the director of the Film and Media Culture Program and a professor of film studies at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the author of Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film (Temple University Press, 1994). His book Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema is forthcoming.
Colin Gunckel is a doctoral candidate in critical studies in film, television, and digital media at UCLA and is currently completing his dissertation on the exhibition of Mexican cinema in Los Angeles. Colin also works in arts projects at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and is also currently the program director for the Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles.
Jeanne Lynn Hall teaches film history, theory, and criticism in the College of Communications at Penn State. She is coauthor, with Ronald V. Bettig, of Big Media, Big Money: Cultural Texts and Political Economics (2003).
Alicia Kemmitt (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst) is a visiting scholar in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on media and social movements. Teaching and research interests also include ethnography of cultural production, audience research, political economy, and film and television studies.
Ben Levin is a documentary filmmaker and professor who is currently director of graduate studies in the Department of Radio, Television and Film at the University of North Texas, which offers an M.F.A. program in documentary production and studies. He is a past president of the University Film and Video Association and currently serves on the National Film Preservation Board. His work has been screened at numerous venues, including the London International Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Randolph Lewis is associate professor of American studies in the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma, where he also teaches in the Film and Video Studies Program. He is the author of two books on documentary: Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America (Wisconsin, 2000) and Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker (Nebraska, 2006).
Betsy Mclane, Ph.D., is the director emerita of the International Documentary Association. She is the coauthor with Jack C. Ellis of A New History of Documentary Film. Learn more at www.documentarydiva.com.
Bill Nichols has written numerous books and lectured widely. He has published four books addressing issues in documentary, most recently, his widely adopted Introduction to Documentary. He is director of the Graduate Program in Cinema Studies at San Francisco State University.
Marsha Orgeron and Devin Orgeron are both assistant professors of film studies at North Carolina State University, where they annually cohost Home Movie Day, Raleigh. Marsha Orgeron’s book, Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age, is forthcoming with Wesleyan University Press (spring 2008). Devin Orgeron’s book, Road Movies: From Muybridge and Méliès to Lynch and Kiarostami, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan (fall 2007).
Josh Shepperd is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Media and Cultural Studies Program.
Matt Sienkiewicz is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin in the field of media and cultural studies. His research interests include Jewish media representation in America and Israel, theories...
