Contributors
- Contributors
Tina Mai Chen is associate professor of history at the University of Manitoba. She edited, with Yomi Braester, Film and the “Missing Period” (1949–1979) in the People’s Republic of China, a special issue of Journal of Chinese Cinemas and, with David S. Churchill, Film, History, and Cultural Citizenship: Sites of Production (Routledge, 2007).
Nick Davis is an associate professor of English and gender and sexuality studies at Northwestern University, where his research and teaching focus on narrative cinema in several traditions and periods. His book The Desiring-Image: Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2013) offers a queer reading of Deleuze’s Cinema books and, from there, new analyses and theoretical models of queer filmmaking after AIDS. He is also the author of the film reviews at www.nicksflickpicks.com.
Maria San Filippo is author of The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television (Indiana University Press, 2013), and is visiting assistant professor in gender studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her new book manuscript explores twenty-first-century film and digital convergence and its implications for screening sexualities.
Leah Shafer is an assistant professor in the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She has been published in Transnational Cinemas, Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, and Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. Her essay on parodic military dance videos is forthcoming in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the War Film.
Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is a specialist in Japanese language, society, and culture, with an emphasis on the interaction between ideology and practice. Her publications include Japanese Women’s Language (Academic Press, 1985), the edited volume Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology (with Shigeko Okamoto, Oxford University Press, 2004), “Finding Mr. Right” (with Debra Occhi and Cindi Sturtz Sreetharan, 2010, in Japanese Studies) and numerous other articles. [End Page 189]
