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  • Notes on Contributors

Ina Diane Archer

Ina Diane Archer is a film/video artist and an advocate for moving image preservation, born in Paris. Consequently, she is devoted to “Total Filmmaker” Jerry Lewis. She loves genre movies and Vitaphone shorts. She is the cochair of New York Women in Film and Television’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund and a board member of IMAP (Independent Media Arts Preservation.) Ina blogs about the “interconnectedness of all things (media)” and a bit about horror at continuumfilmblog.typepad.com.

Olivier Barlet

Olivier Barlet is a member of the Syndicat français de la critique de cinema, a delegate for Africa at the Cannes Festival Critics Week, and a film correspondent for Africultures, Continental, and Afriscope. He runs the Images plurielles collection on cinema for L’Harmattan Publishing House. His book Les Cinémas d’Afrique noire: le regard en question has been translated into English as African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze (London: Zed Books), as well as into German and Italian. From 1997 to 2004, Barlet was chief editor of Africultures, an African cultural journal that features a paper edition and a website (www.africultures.com). He has also published articles in numerous journals and is a member of the African Federation of film critics (www.africine.org).

Joi Carr

Joi Carr is an assistant professor of English and film studies at Pepperdine University in the Humanities and Teacher Education Division. Her research interests are interdisciplinary. She teaches film studies, American literature after the Civil War to the present, and theater, including courses such as African American Cinema, Women and Film, Introduction to Film, Fantasy/Sci-Fi, African American Literature, Multicultural Literature and Theory, Multicultural Women Writers, and Theater Ensemble. She currently is the director of the Film Studies program and the director of the Multicultural Theatre Project at Pepperdine’s Seaver College. She is a singer-songwriter, actress, and playwright and has written, directed, and produced several plays for the Multicultural Theatre Project at Pepperdine University. Her current work with this project is developing an interdisciplinary pedagogy for engaging [End Page 292] students in critical reflection on difference: class, race/ethnicity, gender, and religion.

Tony Cokes

Tony Cokes makes video and installation projects that reframe appropriated texts to reflect upon capitalism, subjectivity, knowledge, and pleasure. Sound always functions in his media practice as a crucial, intertextual element, complicating minimal visuals. His works have been exhibited internationally at venues including Centre Georges Pompidou, Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, SF MOMA, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, and La Cinémathèque Française. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Creative Capital, and Getty Research Institute. He is a professor in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.

Terri Francis

Terri Francis developed her Afrosurrealism project while she was a film studies and African American studies professor at Yale University. Currently, Francis is a visiting associate professor of cinema studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research is about what’s absurd, marvelous, and sublime in African Diaspora cinemas.

Akiva Gottlieb

Akiva Gottlieb is a doctoral candidate in English Language and Literature and Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, and writes about film for The Nation magazine. He lives in Ann Arbor.

Nzingha Kendall

Nzingha Kendall is a PhD student in American studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She also works at the Black Film Center/Archive as a programming assistant.

Leah M. Kerr

Leah M. Kerr is collections coordinator for The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. She has worked in the motion picture and television field for over thirty years in production, post-production, and at several motion picture studios. She earned her MA in Moving Image Archive studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and created the moving image and manuscript archive at the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum, progressing from archivist to director of collections at the repository. She is also a screenwriter, author, and journalist. As a consulting archivist, she worked on [End Page 293] projects for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the California African American Museum.

Michael T. Martin

Michael T. Martin is director of the Black...

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