Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth

Contributors

395 Contributors Christopher Ames is a Ph.D. student in ethnology at the University of Michigan, specializing in urban anthropology, film, East Asian youth culture, and Japanese tourism. He is the author of Okinawa: An Introduction. His dissertation is on urban community revitalization amid the postcolonial contradictions of U.S. military base reduction in a hybrid residential-entertainment community comprised of Okinawan residents, U.S. military sojourners , and Japanese tourists in Okinawa, Japan. Dianne Brooks has been teaching at the University of Massachusetts , Amherst, for twelve years. She was trained as a lawyer at Harvard, practiced family law, and since her time as an academic has been exploring through teaching and writing the ways in which law in the largest sense constructs and is constructed by culture with particular interest in film and the arts. Steven Alan Carr is an Associate Professor of Communication at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne and a 2002–3 Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War II, and is currently exploring the response of the American film industry to the growing public awareness of the Holocaust. Peter Clandfield teaches English and Film at Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. His research interests and publications fall into three main areas: questions of place and space in contemporary novels and films (particularly British and Canadian); questions of race and cultural hybridity in contemporary literature, film, and TV; and theories and practices of censor- contributors 396 ship. With Christian Lloyd, he has recently published an article on class and urban redevelopment in Mike Hodges’s film Get Carter and Jeff Torrington’s novel Swing Hammer Swing. Corey K. Creekmur is an Associate Professor in the Departments of English, and Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa, where he also directs the Institute for Cinema and Culture. He is the author of forthcoming studies of the film western and the musical, and his essays on outlaw couple films, Oscar Micheaux, the western biopic, and the contemporary film soundtrack have appeared in recent collections. His current work focuses on the function of songs and stars in Hindi cinema. Frances Gateward is an Assistant Professor in the Unit for Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Multiple Modernities: Cinema and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia and Still Lifting Still Climbing: Contemporary African American Women’s Activism. She is the editor of Zhang Yimou: Interviews and coeditor of Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood. Nicole Marie Keating is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She has also worked for a number of years in the documentary production industry. After studying philosophy at McGill University, she did her graduate work in communication at the University of Pennsylvania (specializing in documentary theory and historiography). She has published on a variety of media studies topics and is particularly interested in issues concerning gender and media. She became the mother of a baby boy in May 2001 and a baby girl in June 2003. Christian Lloyd teaches English and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Queen’s International Study Centre, Herstmonceux, England. His current research interests include the prehistory of Mod culture in England, and questions of onomastics in contemporary Irish literature . With Peter Clandfield, he has recently published an article on class and urban redevelopment in Mike Hodges’s film Get Carter and Jeff Torrington’s novel Swing Hammer Swing. contributors 397 Sudhir Mahadevan is a doctoral candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University. His interests include histories of technology, including visual technologies, and religion and film. Gina Marchetti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. In 1995, her book, Romance and the “Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction won the award for best book in the area of cultural studies from the Association of Asian American Studies. She has essays in several anthologies, including At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World, Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, and Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema. Her book, From Tian’anmen to Times Square: China on Global Screens, is forthcoming. Chani Marchiselli is currently a Ph...