Contributors
- Contributors
Christine Becker is associate professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in film and television history and critical analysis. Her book It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television (Wesleyan University Press, 2009) won the 2011 IAMHIST Michael Nelson Prize for a Work in Media and History. She is currently working on a research project comparing contemporary American and British television production and programming. She is also online editor for Cinema Journal, the host of the Aca-Media pod-cast, and the curator for the News for TV Majors blog.
Drew Morton is an assistant professor of mass communication at Texas A&M University–Texarkana. His publications have appeared in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, and Studies in Comics. His book Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era was recently published by the University Press of Mississippi.
Jason Mittell is professor of film and media culture and American studies, and faculty director of the Digital Liberal Arts Initiative at Middlebury College. His books include Complex Television: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (New York University Press, 2015), The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image (with Christian Keathley; caboose books, 2016), and How to Watch Television (coedited with Ethan Thompson; New York University Press, 2013). He is project manager for [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, codirector of the National Endowment for the Humanities–supported workshop series Scholarship in Sound & Image, and a fellow at the Peabody Media Center.
Shane Denson is assistant professor of film and media studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Previously, he held appointments and affiliations at Duke University, Leibniz Universität Hannover, and in the Popular Seriality—Aesthetics and Practice research collective based at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of Postnaturalism: Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface (Transcript-Verlag/Columbia University Press, 2014) and coeditor of several collections: Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2013), Digital Seriality (special issue of Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, 2014), and the open-access book Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film (REFRAME Books, 2016).
Maria A. Velez-Serna is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Stirling, working on pop-up cinema exhibition. After earning her PhD at the University of Glasgow, she worked on the Early Cinema in Scotland project, and is coeditor of a forthcoming book on the subject. She has also published on Colombian cinema history and is a member of the HoMER Network (History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception).
Patricia Pisters is professor of film at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam and director of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. She is one of the founding editors of the open-access journal NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies and author of The Neuro-Image: A Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture (Stanford University Press). Her latest book, Filming for the Future (Amsterdam University Press), uncovers the legacy of Dutch documentary filmmaker Louis van Gasteren. Currently she is working on a book project about madness, cinema, and contemporary media, and on a multimedia project about metallurgy, media, and minds. For articles, her blog, audiovisual material, and other information, visit www.patriciapisters.com.
Jaap Kooijman is associate professor in media studies and American studies at the University of Amsterdam. His articles on American pop culture have been published in journals such as Velvet Light Trap, Journal of American Culture, Post Script, Journal of International Education, GLQ, Celebrity Studies, and [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies. Kooijman is the author of Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture (Amsterdam University Press, rev. ed. 2013), editor of European Journal of Cultural Studies, and cofounding editor of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies.
Catherine Grant teaches and researches film studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published widely on theories and practices of film authorship and intertextuality and has edited volumes on world cinema, Latin American cinema, digital film and media studies, and the audiovisual essay...
