After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz is Associate Professor of Film Studies, Comparative Literature, and Humanities, and Associate Director of the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Buñuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema (California, 2003) and of several articles published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Film and History, Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, and various anthologies. He is currently writing a book on Pedro Almodóvar. John Belton is a professor of English at Rutgers University, where he teaches courses in American cinema and film theory. Belton is the author of many journal articles and book chapters devoted to various aspects of American film history and film theory. His books on the cinema include Widescreen Cinema (Harvard, 1992), the textbook American Cinema/American Culture (McGraw-Hill Humanities, 1993; second edition 2004), and Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (Cambridge, 1999). David Boyd is research associate in English and film at the University of Newcastle in Australia. He is the author of Film and the Interpretive Process (Peter Lang, 1989), editor of Perspectives on Alfred Hitchcock (G. K. Hall, 1995), and coeditor of Re-Reading Frye: The Published and Unpublished Works (University of Toronto Press, 1999). Lesley Brill is professor of English at Wayne State University, where he teaches courses in Alfred Hitchcock and introduction to film. Brill’s film criticism has appeared widely in academic journals and as book chapters. He has also 272 notes on contributors published The Hitchcock Romance (Princeton, 1988) and John Huston’s Filmmaking (Cambridge, 1997). Ina Rae Hark is professor of English and film studies at the University of South Carolina. She is an editor of Screening the Male, The Road Movie Book, Exhibition: The Film Reader, and the forthcoming volume on the 1930s in the Screen Decades series. Her essays on a broad spectrum of American film and television have appeared in over thirty different venues, including Cinema Journal, Film History, QRFV, Literature/Film Quarterly, Journal of Popular Film, Hitchcock’s Rereleased Films, Alfred Hitchcock Centenary Essays, and Film and Television After 9/11. Adam Knee is assistant professor in the School of Film at Ohio University and has previously taught at universities in Thailand, Taiwan, and Australia. His writing on film has appeared in a variety of academic journals, as well as in such anthologies as Horror International (ed. Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams, Wayne State, 2005); Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities: Exile and Migration in Cinema (ed. Eva Rueschmann, Mississippi, 2003), and Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Pop Music (ed. Pamela Wojcik and Arthur Knight, Duke, 2001). Thomas M. Leitch is professor of English at the University of Delaware. He has a special interest in such popular narrative modes as detective stories and Hollywood genre films (Westerns, musicals, gangster films, and comedies of all sorts). Since 1989 he has reviewed mystery and suspense fiction for Kirkus Reviews, where he is Senior Editor. Leitch is the author of What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and Interpretation (Penn State, 1986), Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games (Georgia, 1991), Crime Films (Cambridge, 2002), and The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock (Checkmark, 2002). Philippe Met is associate professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in modern poetry and the fantastic, he has published Formules de la poésie (PUF, 1999) and is editing a collection of critical essays on the poetry of André du Bouchet and writing a book on the subversion of signs in fantastic literature. His interests in film studies include international horror cinema and French film noir. A current book project is an examination of the figure of the child and other representations of childhood in films. Walter Metz teaches the history, theory, and criticism of film, television, and theater at Montana State University. He is a specialist in intertextual film notes on contributors 273 theory, having just published his first monograph, Engaging Film Criticism: Film History and Contemporary American Cinema (Peter Lang, 2004). He is the author of numerous academic journal articles and book chapters on film adaptation, genre, and authorship. Metz was a 2003–2004 Fulbright Guest Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Free University in Berlin. Richard Neupert is professor of film studies at the University of Georgia. His books include A History of the French New Wave (Wisconsin, 2002) and The End: Narration and Closure in the...