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  • Contributors to issue 1:1

Margarita Alexomanolaki is a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and at University of Westminster. She studied piano at Hellenic Conservatoire in Athens, Greece, and musicology at the University of Athens. Following studies in ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, she accomplished a PhD on Meaning and Memory in the Music of TV Advertising, also at Goldsmiths College, with a scholarship from the Onassis Institute, Athens.

margalexo@yahoo.co.uk

Rick Altman is Professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa. His latest books are Film/Genre (BFI), Silent Film Sound (Columbia), and the forthcoming A Theory of Narrative (Columbia).

rick-altman@uiowa.edu

Elena Boschi graduated in modern languages and specialised in conference interpreting at Forlì, University of Bologna. She completed her MA in Popular Music Studies at the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool. Her PhD research explores the relationship between popular songs and cultural identity in contemporary British, Italian, and Spanish cinema.

elenawoods@gmail.com

Norma Coates is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Don Wright Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Her published work includes studies in rock music and gender, and histories of popular music on American television. She regularly presents her research at national and international conferences including meetings of the Society for Cinema Studies, Consoleing Passions, and IASPM. She is working on her first book, tentatively entitled Rocking the Wasteland: Rock and Roll on Network Television, 1956–1981, for Duke University Press.

ncoates@uwo.ca

Karen Collins is Canada Research Chair in Communications and Technology at the Canadian Centre of Arts and Technology, University of Waterloo.

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Annette Davison is a lecturer in Music at the University of Edinburgh. Her monograph Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice: cinema soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s was published in 2004 (Ashgate), along with the collection of essays on the work of David Lynch that she co-edited with Erica Sheen, American Dreams, Nightmare Visions: the cinema of David Lynch (Wallflower Press). Essays can be found in a variety of journals and books and cover issues such as film/music synergies, the film music of Hans Werner Henze, and music in film adaptations. She is currently writing a book about Alex North's score for Elia Kazan's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

Helen Hanson is Lecturer in Film in the Department of English at the University of Exeter. Her main research interests are in classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema, gender and genre, and histories of film style. She is the author of Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film (I B Tauris, 2007). She has also written on sound and music in film noir in Robynn Stilwell and Peter Franklin eds. The Cambridge Companion to Film Music (Cambridge U.P, forthcoming), and on the transformations of the female gothic film in Gothic Studies Vol. 9, no. 2, Winter 2007. She is currently researching sound styles in Hollywood's studio era.

H.M.Hanson@exeter.ac.uk

Ulrike Sieglohr is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Staffordshire University. She currently researches the use of sound by independent women film-makers. Amongst her recent publications are: 'Women Filmmakers, The Avant-Garde and The Case of Ulrike Ottinger' in Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter and Deniz Göktürk (eds.), The German Cinema Book (London: BFI, 2002), and 'The Operatic in New German Cinema' in Ian Conrich and Estella Tincknell (eds.), Film's Musical Moments (EUP, 2006).

u.s.sieglohr@staffs.ac.uk [End Page 120]

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