Contributors
- Contributors
Louis Bayman is lecturer in film studies at the University of Southampton. He has published various works on popular cinema, Italian cinema, and horror and serial killer cinema.
Richard Dyer is professor emeritus, King's College London, and Professorial Fellow, University of St. Andrews.
Victor Fan is senior lecturer in the Department of Film Studies, King's College London. His monograph, Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2015.
Lisa Henderson is professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Love and Money: Queers, Class and Cultural Production (New York University Press, 2013).
Anu Koivunen is professor of cinema studies at Stockholm University. She has written on gender, nation, and sexuality in Finnish cinema and television as well as on the affective turn in feminist and queer theory.
Miriam J. Petty is assistant professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University. Her first book, Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood (University of California Press, 2016) explores the limits and possibilities of stardom for black people in the classical Hollywood era.
Ryan Powell is assistant professor of cinema and media studies at the Media School, Indiana University. He recently published a chapter titled "Gothic Spatiality and the Limits of Gay Visibility in The Boys in the Band " in The Boys in the Band: Flashpoints of Cinema, History, and Queer Politics, ed. Matt Bell (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016). He is currently working on a book titled Coming Together: The Cinematic Invention of Gay Life, 1945–1979.
B. Ruby Rich is professor of film and digital media at the University of California Santa Cruz, author most recently of New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut (Duke University Press, 2013) and editor of Film Quarterly.
Jackie Stacey is professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Manchester and codirector of Manchester's Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture. Her most recent books include The Cinematic Life of the Gene (Duke University Press, 2010) and the coedited collections Queer Screen (Routledge, 2007) and Writing Otherwise: Experiments in Cultural Criticism (Manchester University Press, 2013). She is working on a new research project on Tilda Swinton. [End Page 185]
Amy Villarejo is professor of performing and media arts at Cornell University. Her most recent books are Film Studies: A Global Introduction (Routledge, 2015) and Ethereal Queer (Duke University Press, 2014).
Thomas Waugh retired in 2017 from teaching film studies and sexuality at Concordia University, Montreal, where he started in 1976. His fattest book, The Conscience of Cinema: The Work of Joris Ivens, 1912–1989, was honored by the SCMS Kovacs Book Award in 2017, and his filthiest, Out/Lines, Lust Unearthed, and Gay Art, were nominated in 2003, 2004, and 2005, respectively, for Lambda Book Awards.
Patricia White is Eugene Lang Research Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting 21st Century Feminisms (Duke University Press, 2015) and Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (Indiana University Press, 1999). She is a member of the Camera Obscura editorial collective. [End Page 186]
