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243 conTribuTorS Craig Bernardini is assistant professor of English at Hostos Community College, City University of New York, holding a B.A. in the Writing Seminars from The Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the University of Utah. In the summer of 1990 he interned at Fangoria magazine, and has continued to study, write about, and write stories in the horror genre ever since. In addition to horror cinema, his research interests include popular music and American literature. His most recent work,“Heavy Melville,” analyzes how issues of gender and aesthetics affected the reception of Leviathan, a heavy-metal album inspired by Moby-Dick. He is also researching and writing about the image of the frontier in Hector St. John de Crevecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. David Church is a Ph.D. student in Communication and Culture at Indiana University . He is currently editing Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin. He has contributed to Disability Studies Quarterly, Film Quarterly, The Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Offscreen, and Senses of Cinema. Pamela Craig is a research candidate in the Institute of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her current research project focuses on cinematic representations of Christmas and Halloween in the United States and their relationship to the Gothic mode. Blair Davis holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal. He has been an instructor in film studies at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University since 2003. His essays are featured in Caligari’s Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945, Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear, and Reel Food: Essays on Film and Food, as well as in the Canadian Journal of Film Studies and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Martin Fradley teaches American Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. His published work has appeared in Yvonne Tasker’s edited collections Fifty conTribuTorS 244 Contemporary Filmmakers and Action and Adventure Cinema, edited by Ginette Vincendeau and Alastair Philips; Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood; and Falling in Love Again: The Contemporary Romantic Comedy, edited by Stacey Abbot and Deborah Jeremyn. Steffen Hantke has published essays and reviews on contemporary literature, film, and culture in Paradoxa,College Literature,The Journal of Popular Culture,Post Script, Kinema, Scope, Foundation, Science Fiction Studies, Studies in Twentieth and TwentyFirst Century Literature, and other journals, as well as in anthologies in Germany and the United States. He is author of Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary Literature, as well as editor of Horror, a special topics issue of Paradoxa (2002), Horror : Creating and Marketing Fear, Caligari’s Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945, and, together with Rudolphus Teeuwen, Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers, and the Global Academic Proletariat: Adjunct Labor in Higher Education. He serves on the editorial boards of Paradoxa and The Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance . Since 1999, he has also been chair of the “Horror” area at the Southwest/ Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association. He currently teaches at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, as Associate Professor in the American Culture Program. Reynold Humphries has published Fritz Lang: Genre and Representation in His American Films, The American Horror Film: An Introduction, and The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931–1941: Madness in a Social Landscape. He has written on European horror (Argento, Bava, and Franju) for the Web site Kinoeye, on early Mario Bava for both Monstrous Adaptations and 100 European Horror Films, and has contributed to the special horror issue of Paradoxa, the issue of Post Script devoted to serial killers , 101 Horror Movies, 101 Sci-Fi Movies, and The Cinema of Tod Browning: Essays of the Macabre and Grotesque. A study (in French) of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its sequel appeared in Cauchemars Américains: Fantastique et horreur dans le cinéma moderne, and a forthcoming French anthology devoted to George A. Romero includes chapters by him on The Crazies and Dawn of the Dead. His work in other fields includes contributions to Film Noir Reader 4, Gangster Film Reader, Docufictions, Stanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and Legacy, 501 Movie Directors,and Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row. His latest book is Hollywood’s Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History. James Kendrick holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Communication and Culture. He is an...

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