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  • Contributors to issue 4:2

Julio Arce is Professor of Musicology at the University Complutense in Madrid (Spain). He is the former director of the Centro de Documentación de Cantabria and adviser of the Consejería de Educación de la Comunidad de Madrid. The primary focus of his studies has been in the field of popular music and the relationship it shares with audio and visual media. He has published various works, among them La música en Cantabria (1994), Mujeres en la escena, 1900-1940 (1996) and Música y radiodifusión (2008). Arce has been a contributor to RNE Radio Clásica, where, alongside Belén Pérez, he has directed and co-produced the Audiovisión programme for the past two years. He has also participated in educational projects for the Juan March Foundation and the Círculo de Bellas Artes.
julioarcebueno@gmail.com

Martin Barnier is Professor in Film Studies in the University Lumière Lyon 2. He specialises in the history of sound in film. He has published: En route vers le parlant: Histoire d'une évolution technologique, économique et esthétique du cinéma (1926-1934) (Éditions du CÉFAL, 2002); and Des films français made in Hollywood: Les versions multiples, 1929-1935 (Éditions L'Harmattan, 2004); and Bruits, cris, musiques de film. Les projections avant 1914 (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010).
Martin.Barnier@univ-lyon2.fr

Teresa Fraile teaches music in the Department of Music Pedagogy at the University of Extremadura (Spain). She graduated in Music Sciences and Art History at the University of Salamanca (Spain) in 2001, followed by an MA (2004) and PhD in Music in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (2008), both at the University of Salamanca. She has presented papers at several national and international conferences on music and media. She takes part in the national research project Music and Cinema in Spain, and has also published several articles on music and cinema, and the book Música de cine en España: señas de identidad de la banda sonora contemporánea (2010).
fraileteresa@hotmail.com

Janet K. Halfyard is Director of Studies (Undergraduate) at Birmingham Conservatoire where she teaches courses in film music as well as twentieth century and contemporary music. Her publications include Danny Elfman's Batman: a film score guide (Scarecrow 2004), edited collections of essays on Berio's Sequenzas (Ashgate 2007) and on music in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Ashgate 2010), and a range of other articles and book chapters on film and television music.
steve.halfyard@bcu.ac.uk

Guido Heldt studied musicology, art history and philosophy in Münster (Germany), London and Oxford, worked at the Free University, Berlin, [End Page 287] briefly at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo (Ontario) and currently at the University of Bristol, and has, among other things, worked on English art music in the early twentieth century, film music and narrative theory, and composer biopics, and has begun to work on musical films in Nazi cinemas.
Guido.Heldt@bristol.ac.uk

Reynold Humphries is the author of The American Horror Film: An Introduction (Edinburgh University Press, 2002) and The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931-1941. Madness in a Social Landscape (The Scarecrow Press, 2006). He has contributed essays on Mario Bava, Tobe Hooper, John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, George A. Romero, Jacques Tourneur and Edgar G. Ulmer to French and American anthologies.
reynold.humphries@laposte.net

Josep Lluís i Falcó teaches History of Cinema and Audiovisual Media at the University of Barcelona. He has been researching on film music for more than twenty years, focusing on the work of Spanish film composers. He has participated in many conferences approaching this field of study, and published the results of his research in his PhD thesis El compositor cinematográfico español: evolución de una profesión, 1930-1989, and in his books: Gregorio García Segura: historia, testimonio y análisis de un músico de cine (1994) and Els compositors de cinema a Catalunya (1930-1959) (2009). He has also participated in many collective volumes, among them Jacinto Guerrero: De la zarzuela a la revista (1995), Història de la música catalana, valenciana i balear (2001...

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