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  • Contributors to issue 3:2

Steve Chibnall is Professor of British Cinema at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. His most recent books are Quota Quickies (2007) and The British B Film (with Brian McFarlane, 2009), both for BFI/Palgrave. He has previously published monographs on the directors J. Lee Thompson and Peter Walker, the films Get Carter and Brighton Rock, and edited collections on British crime and horror cinema. schib@dmu.ac.uk

Emanuele D’Onofrio has just completed his PhD investigating how film music works in Italian contemporary cinema. He has published articles and book chapters on this subject and on aspects related to the work of Italian directors such as Marco Tullio Giordana and Marco Bellocchio. emadonofrio@googlemail.com

Richard Fawkes is an award-winning writer and film director. He is the author of Opera on Film and wrote the histories of Opera, Classical Music and the Musical for Naxos Audiobooks. His film credits include The Original Three Tenors (a documentary on Caruso, Gigli and Björling) and, most recently, GFWatts – Victorian Visionary, a film about the artist for Sky Arts. rbfawkes@tiscali.co.uk

Alexander Fisher is Lecturer in the School of Languages, Literature and Performing Arts at Queen’s University Belfast, where he teaches modules on world cinemas and film music. He is currently researching music in African cinemas. a.c.fisher@qub.ac.uk

Jill Halstead is currently a Visiting Research Fellow attached to the Music Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has published in the fields of classical and popular music, reflecting her varied research interests. Her publications include The Woman Composer: Creativity and the Gendered Politics of Music (Ashgate, 1997) and Ruth Gipps: Anti-modernism, Nationalism and Difference in English Music (Ashgate, 2006). She is co-editor, along with Dave Laing, of the Icons of Pop book series (Equinox/University of Indiana). j.halstead@gold.ac.uk

Nicholas Reyland is Lecturer at Keele University, where he teaches twentieth-century, screen and popular musics on the Music and Music Technology, Media, Communications and Culture, and Film programmes. His primary research interests are the music of Witold Lutosławski, narrative theory and film/television music. He is presently completing a book for Scarecrow Press [End Page 266] on Zbigniew Preisner’s music for Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours trilogy and a paper, with Keele colleague Alexandra Lamont, on music for young children’s television. n.w.reyland@mus.keele.ac.uk

Richard Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Politics & Russian Studies at Swansea University. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Russian and Soviet cinema including Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. He is General Editor of Eisenstein’s Selected Works in English and of the Kino Series for I. B. Tauris. He is currently working on a study of the Stalinist musical film. richtea21@hotmail.com

Joshua Walden is a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford. He received a PhD in historical musicology at Columbia University and an A.B. in music at the University of California at Berkeley, and has performed as a violinist in New York, Oxford, and the San Francisco Bay Area. He has published essays in Musical Quarterly, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Journal of Musicological Research, and Genre in Eighteenth-Century Music. joshua.walden@merton.ox.ac.uk [End Page 267]

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