Contributors
- Contributors
Courtney R. Baker is an associate professor of American studies at Occidental College. She is the author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death (University of Illinois Press, 2015). Her work concerns blackness and the visual representation of humanity. Her essays have appeared in Journal of American Culture and Parallax. She is currently working on a manuscript titled "The Tyranny of Realism: Twenty-First Century Blackness and the Ends of Cinema."
Tanya Goldman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. Her work and reviews have appeared in Feminist Media Histories, Film Quarterly, and Senses of Cinema, and she has an article forthcoming in Film History. She currently serves as graduate representative for the Nontheatrical Film Scholarly Interest Group of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. Her dissertation concerns the career of American nontheatrical film distributor Thomas J. Brandon (1908–1982).
Thomas Schatz is a professor in the Radio-Television-Film Department at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s (University of California Press, 1999). His current book project, a history of contemporary conglomerate Hollywood, was awarded a Film Scholars grant by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Georgina Torello is a researcher for the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores de la Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación (National Researchers System of the Nacional Agency for Investigation and Innovation) and a professor of Italian literature at Universidad de la República (Uruguay). She specializes in the history of silent film in Uruguay and its relation to other disciplines such as literature, theater, art, and medicine. She is the author of the forthcoming La conquista del espacio: Ficciones del cine silente uruguayo (Conquering space: Fictions in Uruguayan silent cinema) (Yaugurú) and coeditor of Watching Pages, Reading Pictures: Cinema and Modern Literature in Italy (Cambridge Scholars, 2008) and La pantalla letrada: Estudios interdisciplinarios sobre cine y audiovisual latinoamericano (The lettered screen: Interdisciplinary studies of Latin American cinema and audiovisual) (EI/UdelaR, 2016). Together with Andrea Cuarterolo, she codirects the peer-reviewed journal Vivomatografías: Revista de estudios sobre precine y cine silente en Latinoamérica (Vivomatografías: Journal of precinematic and silent cinema studies in Latin America). [End Page 174]
Ryan Watson is an assistant professor of film and visual media in the Fine Arts Program at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. He is currently finishing a book manuscript titled "Militant Evidence: Radical Documentary in the Age of New Media" and coediting (with Sarah Hamblin) the forthcoming special issue of Studies in Documentary Film titled "Radical Documentary in the Globalized Age of New Media." His writing has appeared in Afterimage, Animation Journal, Feminist Media Studies, InVisible Culture, and Journal of Film and Video. [End Page 175]
