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  • About the contributors

Dee Amy-Chinn is Assistant Head of Division for Philosophy, Culture and Education at Oxford Brookes University. In addition to a number of articles on representations of gender and sexuality in the media, she has published an article on Firefly in Feminist Media Studies and co-edited a special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Mark Bould is a Reader in Film and Literature at the University of the West of England. He is the author of Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City (2005), The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star (2008) and co-editor of Parietal Games: Critical Writings By and On M. John Harrison (2005), Neo-noir (forthcoming) and The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (forthcoming).

Alexia L. Bowler gained her PhD in English from Swansea University in 2007, where she is a part-time tutor in both the Media and English Departments. Her research interests are genre cinema, gender and feminism in literature and film, literary adaptation and theoretical approaches to media, film and literature.

Neil Easterbrook lives, watches, suffers despair and writes in Fort Worth, Texas, where he teaches comparative literature and literary theory at TCU.

Gwyneth Jones, writer and critic of sf and fantasy, is the author of many novels for teenagers, mostly using the name Ann Halam, and several highly regarded genre novels for adults, often addressing feminist, popular culture and gender issues. Her critical essays and reviews are collected in Deconstructing the Starships (1999). She has won the Tiptree award, two World Fantasy awards, the Arthur C. Clarke award, the British Science Fiction Association award, the Philip K. Dick award, and, most recently, the Pilgrim award for sf criticism (2008). She lives in Brighton with her husband and son; and two cats.

Nikki J. Y. Lee holds a PhD in Cultural Studies. She mainly writes on the transnational circulation of East Asian films and on South Korean cinema. Her ‘Salute to Mr. Vengeance!: Oldboy (2003) and the Making of a Transnational Auteur Park Chan-Wook’ appears in East Asian Cinemas: Exploring Transnational Connections on Film (2008) and ‘Chinese Blockbuster and Audiences of a Neighbouring Country: Critical Reception of Hero in South Korea’ appears in Global Chinese Cinema: The Culture and Politics of Hero (2009). She teaches gender and cultural studies and contemporary South Korean popular culture at Yonsei University in Seoul.

Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Science Fiction (2005) and The Trauma Question (2008).

Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction includes Anno Dracula (1992), Life’s Lottery (1999) and The Man From the Diogenes Club (2006). His non-fiction includes Nightmare Movies (1985), Horror: 100 Best Books (1988) and BFI Classics studies of Cat People (1999) and Doctor Who (2005). He is a contributing editor to Sight & Sound and Empire. He wrote and directed a short film, Missing Girl, available online at http://www.johnnyalucard.com/missinggirl.html . His website is at johnnyalucard.com. [End Page 361]

Richard Rushton is Lecturer at the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University. He is the author of a number of articles on film and film theory, and is currently writing a book (with Gary Bettinson) called What is Film Theory?

Patrick B. Sharp is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, where he teaches interdisciplinary courses on science studies, American studies, gender studies and sf. The author of Savage Perils (2007), he is currently writing a book on the image of the woman soldier in sf and co-editing The Descent of Darwin, which examines the transatlantic cultural impact of Darwin’s work.

Sharon Sharp is an Assistant Professor in the Communications Department at California State University, Dominguez Hills. She has published widely on television and gender and is currently completing Yesterday Now: Television, Nostalgia and the Mediation of the American Past.

Greg Tuck is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of the West of England. A co-editor of Neo-Noir (forthcoming), he is currently writing a book on dialectics, phenomenology and sexual representation.

Sherryl Vint is an Assistant Professor...

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