Contributors
- Contributors
Samantha Herndon is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on film exhibition and festivals, global film movements, and women's creative labor in media production. Herndon earned her MA from the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a member of the Velvet Light Trap's editorial collective.
Jennifer Malkowski is assistant professor of film and media studies at Smith College. They are the author of Dying in Full Detail: Mortality and Digital Documentary (Duke University Press, 2017) and coeditor with TreaAndrea M. Russworm of Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games (Indiana University Press, 2017).
Justus Nieland is professor of English and teaches in the film studies program at Michigan State University. He is the author of Happiness by Design: Modernism and Media in the Eames Era (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming in 2019) and David Lynch (University of Illinois Press, 2012), and coauthor, with Jennifer Fay, of Film Noir: Hard-Boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization (Routledge, 2009).
Javier Ramirez is assistant professor of English and Mexican American studies at Lee College. His dissertation, "Vamos al cine: Film Exhibition and Moviegoing in El Paso, Texas, 1935–1955," explores the ways American and Mexican film exhibitors individualized theatrical venues, localized movies, and negotiated the demands of a culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse audience in El Paso, Texas. He received his PhD from the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University in September 2019.
Aylish Wood is professor of animation and film studies at the University of Kent. She has published articles in journals including Screen, Journal of Film and Video, and Games. Her books include Technoscience in Contemporary American Film (Manchester University Press, 2002), Digital Encounters (Routledge, 2007), and Software, Animation and the Moving Image: What's in the Box (Palgrave Pivot, 2014).
