Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History

Contributors

Vicki Callahan is an associate professor and founder of the Conceptual Studies program in the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, as well as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Zones of Anxiety: Movement, Musidora, and the Crime Serials of Louis Feuilllade (Wayne State University Press, 2004). Her current research project is focused on the silent film comedienne/director Mabel Normand . She also co-authors with Lina Srivastava http://www.transmedia-activism. com, a resource website for using cross-media platforms for social change. Victoria Duckett received her Ph.D. in Critical Studies from UCLA and teaches film history and theory in the Department of Media and Performing Arts, Università Cattolica, Milan. She is completing a book entitled “A Little Too Much is Enough for Me”: Sarah Bernhardt and Silent Cinema and is editing a special issue of Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film which explores the intersections between gender, theater, and early film. Currently, she is a Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Anna Everett is a professor of film, television and new media studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). She has published numerous books and articles including Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909– 1949 (Duke University Press, 2001); New Media Theories and Practices of Digitextuality , edited with John Caldwell (Routledge, 2003); and Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace (SUNY Press, 2009). Sandy Flitterman-Lewis is the author of To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema, 2nd ed. (Columbia University Press, 1996) and coauthor of New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics (Routledge, 1992). Her current work, Hidden Voices: Essays on Childhood, the Family, and Anti-Semitism in Occupation France, comes out of a conference she organized at Columbia University in 1998. She teaches English, cinema studies, and comparative literature and is an associate professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. 431 Contributors 06 Callahan BM.indd 431 1/13/10 12:03 PM 432 C o N t R I B U t o R S Terri Simone Francis is assistant professor in the Film Studies Program and the Department of African American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of several articles on Josephine Baker, and her book analyzing the Parisian’s career as a primal site of black American cinema is forthcoming from Indiana University Press. Further research projects concern Jamaica’s transnational history with film and experimental expressions in black cinemas. Joanne Hershfield is professor and chair of women’s studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Imagining La Chica Moderna: Women and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936 (Duke University Press, 2008), The Invention of Dolores del Rio (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and Mexican Cinema/Mexican Woman, 1940–1950 (University of Arizona Press, 1996). Sumiko Higashi is professor emerita in the Department of History at SUNY Brockport. She is the author of Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era (University of California Press, 1994) as well as numerous essays on American film history, especially the silent period; women in film and television; and film as historical representation. She is currently working on a study of stardom, femininity, and consumption in the 1950s. Soyoung Kim teaches in the Department of Film Studies at Korean National University in Seoul. Her publications include Specters of Modernity: Fantastic Korean Cinema (Ssiaseul Ppurineun Saramdeul, 2000), Cinema: Blue Flower in the Land of Technology (Youlhwadang, 1996), and other books on issues of cinema, modernity, and gender. Her articles have appeared in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Traces, UTS Review, Postcolonial Studies, Shiso (in Japanese), and Gendai Shiso (in Japanese), and she has co-edited the special issue on Cinema, Culture Industry and Political Societies for Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. Her documentaries on Korean women, including Women’s History Trilogy (2000–2004), have been screened at Seoul Women’s Film Festival, Yamgata international documentary film festival, and Hong Kong International film festival, as well as shown on EBS public channel. Annette Kuhn is professor of film studies in the School of Languages, Linguistics, and Film at Queen Mary, University of London, and is an editor of the journal Screen. Her recently published work includes An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory (US title Dreaming of Fred and Ginger) (I. B. tauris; New York University Press, 2002). Suzanne...