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  • Notes on Contributors

Sheril D. Antonio

Sheril D. Antonio is the Associate Dean of Film, Television, New Media & the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music and an Associate Arts Professor in the Department Art and Public Policy at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is the author of Contemporary African American Cinema (2002); a contributing writer on New Black Cinema-When Self-Empowerment Becomes Assimilation (2005); and “Matriarchs, Rebels, Adventurers, and Survivors: Renditions of Black Womanhood in Contemporary African American Cinema” (Sight & Sound, Supplement, July 2005).

Roy Armes

Roy Armes is Emeritus Professor of Film at Middlesex University. He has written widely on cinema for forty years and is author, most recently, of Dictionary of African Filmmakers published by Indiana University Press in 2008. His current project is a study of Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East.

Gilberto M. Blasini

Gilberto M. Blasini is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Film Studies program at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His work has appeared in the anthologies Film Analysis: A Norton Reader, Prospero’s Isles: The Presence of the Caribbean in the North American Imaginary and Visible Nations: Latin American Film and Video, as well as in the journals Caribbean Studies, Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Objeto Visual, and Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media & Composite Cultures. His current research focuses on the road movie genre in Latin America.

Jane Bryce

Jane Bryce was born and brought up in Tanzania, and has since lived in Italy, the UK, and Nigeria, where she did her doctoral research on Nigerian women’s writing at Obafemi Awolowo University, 1983–1988. Since 1992, she has taught at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, where she is Professor of African Literature and Film. She publishes in the areas of contemporary African and Caribbean fiction, postcolonial cinema and creative writing, and was founder and codirector of the Barbados Festival of African and Caribbean Film. She is the author of Chameleon (2007) a collection of short fiction, [End Page 213] and the editor of Caribbean Dispatches: Inside Stories of the Caribbean (2006), and also contributes to newspapers and journals in the Caribbean and Nigeria. She is working on a memoir/travelogue/portrait of a place drawing on her memories and recent experience of Tanzania.

Kenneth W. Harrow

Kenneth W. Harrow is a professor of English at Michigan State University with specializations in African literature and cinema. He is the author of Thresholds of Change in African Literature (1994), Less Than One and Double: A Feminist Reading of African Women’s Writing (2002), and Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism (2007). He has edited numerous collections on such topics as Islam and African literature, African cinema, and women in African cinema.

Michael T. Martin

Michael T. Martin is director of the Black Film Center/Archive and professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the editor/coeditor of Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: Slavery, Jim Crow, and their Legacies (Duke University Press); Studies of Development and Change in the Modern World (Oxford University Press); Cinemas of the Black Diaspora (Wayne State University Press); and a two-volume work, New Latin American Cinema (Wayne State University Press). His work on the Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solas appeared in Film Quarterly and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video; the Burkinabe filmmaker, Gaston Kaboré, in Research in African Literatures; and the Mexican filmmaker, Francisco Athié, in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and Framework. Forthcoming are interviews with filmmakers Julie Dash in Cinema Journal, Joseph Gai Ramaka in Research in African Literatures, Yoruba Richen in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He also directed and coproduced the award-winning feature documentary on Nicaragua, In the Absence of Peace.

Martin Mhando

Martin Mhando is Associate Professor of Media Studies, Murdoch University, Western Australia.

Bruce Paddington

Bruce Paddington lectures in film and media at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. He has published articles on Caribbean and Latin American cinema and is the director of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. He is an award-winning filmmaker, having made...

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