Affron, Charles
Charles Affron is professor emeritus of French at New York University. His latest book is Best Years: Going to the Movies, 1945-1956, co-author Mirella Jona Affron (Rutgers University Press, 2009). He is also the author of Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life (Scribner, 2001), Sets in Motion: Art Direction and Film Narrative, co-author Mirella Jona Affron (Rutgers University Press, 1995), Divine Garbo (Editions Ramsay, 1985), Cinema and Sentiment (University of Chicago Press, 1982), and Star Acting: Gish, Garbo, Davis (E. P. Dutton, 1977). Essays: Capra; Lean; Wyler.
Andrew, Dudley
Dudley Andrew, the R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University, teaches French cinema and World cinemas as well as issues in aesthetics (the image, adaptation). Author/editor of a dozen books, he is the biographer of Andr? Bazin and has recently published What Cinema Is!. Essays: Astruc; Becker; Cl?ment; Clouzot; Gr?million; Mizoguchi.
Armes, Roy
Reader in film and television, Middlesex Polytechnic, London. Author of French Cinema since 1946, 1966, 1970; The Cinema of Alain Resnais, 1968; French Film, 1970; Patterns of Realism, 1972, 1983; Film and Reality, 1974; The Ambiguous Image, 1976; A Critical History of British Cinema, 1978; The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1981; French Cinema, 1985; Third World Filmmaking and the West, 1987; On Video, 1988; and Studies in Arab and African Film, 1991. Essays: Carn?; Cocteau; Feuillade; Gance; Melville; Sautet.
Basinger, Jeanine
Jeanine Basinger is the Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, founder and curator of the Wesleyan Cinema Archives, Chair of the Film Studies Department, and a 1996 recipient of Wesleyan?s Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Her book, Silent Stars, won the National Board of Review?s William K. Everson Prize, and her most recent book, The Star Machine, published by Knopf, 2007, won the Theatre Library Association Award. She is the author of numerous articles and book reviews in such publications as The New York Times, American Film, Film Quarterly, and Opera News, as well as ten books on film including A Woman?s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women 1930-1960; The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre, and Anthony Mann: A Critical Study. Her new book, also to be published by Knopf, is in the works. Essay: Siodmak.
Baxter, John
Novelist, screenwriter, TV producer, and film historian. Visiting lecturer, Hollins College, Virginia, 1974-75; broadcaster with BBC Radio and Television, 1976-91. Author of six novels, two anthologies of science fiction (editor), various screenplays for documentary films and features, and works of film criticism including: Hollywood in the Thirties, 1968; The Australian Cinema, 1970; Science Fiction in the Cinema, 1970; The Gangster Film, 1970; The Cinema of Josef von Sternberg, 1971; The Cinema of John Ford, 1971; Hollywoodin the Sixties, 1972; Sixty Years of Hollywood, 1973; An Appalling Talent: Ken Russell, 1973; Stunt, 1974; The Hollywood Exiles, 1976; King Vidor, 1976; with Brian Norris, The Video Handbook, 1982; and Filmstruck, 1989. Essays: Bogdanovich; Ford; Frankenheimer; Malle; von Sternberg.
Bock, Audie
Free-lance author and lecturer. Visiting lecturer at Harvard, Yale, University of California, and others, 1975-83. Assistant producer of the international version of Kurosawa's Kagermusha, 1980. Author of Japanese Film Directors, 1978, 1985; and Mikio Naruse: un maitre du cin?ma japonais, 1983; translator of Something Like an Autobiography by Kurosawa, 1982. Essay: Kurosawa.
Bodeen, De Witt
Screenwriter and film critic. Author of screenplays for Cat People, 1942; Seventh Victim, 1943; Curse of the Cat People, 1944; The Yellow Canary, 1944; The Enchanted Cottage, 1945; Night Song, 1947; I Remember Mama, 1948; Mrs. Mike, 1959; Billy Budd, 1962; and numerous teleplays, 1950-68. Also author of Ladies in the Footlights; The Films of Cecil B. De Mille; Chevalier; From Hollywood; More from Hollywood; 13 Castle Walk (novel); editor of Who Wrote the Movie and What Else Did He Write? Died 1988. Essays: Borzage; Guitry; Korda; Murnau; Stevens; Jacques Tourneur.
Bordwell, David
Emeritus Professor of film, University of Wisconsin?Madison. Author of The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer, 1981; The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960, with Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson, 1984; Narration in the Fiction Film, 1985; Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema, 1988; Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema, 1990; The Cinema of Eisenstein, 1994; On the History of Film Style, 1998; Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment, 2000; Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging, 2005; The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies, 2006; Poetics of Cinema, 2008; Film Art: An Introduction, 9th ed., with Kristin Thompson, 2010; Film History: An Introduction, 3rd ed, with Kristin Thompson, 2010. Essay: Ozu.
Bowles, Stephen E.
Associate professor of film, University of Miami, since 1976. Author of An Approach to Film Study, 1974; Index to Critical Reviews from British and American Film Periodicals 1930-71, 3 volumes, 1974-75; Sidney Lumet: A Guide to References and Resources, 1979; and Index to Critical Film Reviews: Supplement I, 1971-76, 1983. Essay: Lumet.
Burgoyne, Robert
Associate professor of English,Wayne State University, Detroit. Contributor to Film Quarterly, Screen, and October. Author of Bertolucci's 1900: A Narrative and Historical Analysis, 1991; and Imaging Nation: Changing Perspectives on Nation and History in Contemporary American Film,1997. Co?author of New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics, 1992. Essay: Bertolucci.
Ciment, Michel
Associate professor in American Studies, University of Paris. Member of the editorial board of Positif. Author of Erich von Stroheim, 1967; Kazan by Kazan, 1973; Le Dossier Rosi, 1976; Le Livre de Losey, 1979; Kubrick, 1980; Les Conqu?rants d'un nouveau monde, 1981; Elia Kazan: An Outsider, 1982; All about Mankiewicz, 1983; Boorman, 1985; Francesco Rosi: Chronique d'un film annonc?, 1987; and Passport pour Hollywood, 1987. Essays: Angelopoulos; Skolimowski.
Conley,Tom
Professor of French and comparative literature, University of Minnesota. Former editor, Enclitic; and contributor to Theater Journal, MLN, Hors Cadre, Revue des Lettres Modernes, and Litt?rature. Essay: Renoir.
Costa, Kevin J.
B.A. in English and Film Studies and M.A. in English, Rhode Island College. Adjunct instructor of writing, Rhode Island College. Pursuing graduate studies in English at State University of New York at Buffalo. Essay: Sautet.
Cousins, R.F.
Lecturer in French , University of Birmingham. Author of Zola's Theresa Raquin, 1991. Contributor to University Vision and Literature/Film Quarterly. Executive member of British Universities Film and Video Council. Essays: Lumi?re; Rouch.
D'Arpi?o, Tony
Free-lance writer. Author of The Tree Worshipper, 1983; and Untitled Zodial, 1984. Essay: Pasolini.
Derry, Charles
Ph.D. in Film, Northwestern University. Coordinator of Film Studies, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, from 1978. Author of Dark Dreams: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film, 1977. Coauthor, with Jack Ellis and Sharon Kern, of the reference work The Film Book Bibliography: 1940-1975, 1979; Director of the short films Cerebral Accident and Joan Crawford Died for Your Sins. Fiction has appeared in Reclaiming the Heartland: Gay and Lesbian Voices from the Midwest, 1996. Essays: Altman; Chabrol; Lee; Mulligan; Preminger; Spielberg.
Doll, Susan M.
Instructor in film at Oakton Community College and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Author of Marilyn: Her Life and Legend, 1990, and The Films of Elvis Presley, 1991. Essay: Welles.
Durgnat, Raymond
Visiting professor of film, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. Author of numerous publications on film, including Durgnat on Film, 1975; King Vidor?American, 1988; and Michael Powell and the English Genius, 1991. Essays: Clayton; Makavejev.
Edelman, Rob
Author of Great Baseball Films, 1994; Baseball on the Web, 1998. Co?author of Angela Lansbury: A Life on Stage and Screen, 1996, Meet the Mertzes, 1999, and Matthau: A Life, 2002. Editor of Issues on Trial: Freedom of the Press, 2006. Contributing editor of Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia, Leonard Maltin's Family Film Guide, and Leonard Maltin?s Classic Movie Guide. Former director of programming of Home Film Festival. Contributor to The Political Companion to American Film, The Whole Film Sourcebook, Base Ball: The Journal of the Early Game, St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, The Sixties in America, Contemporary Black Biography, Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond, Women Filmmakers and Their Films, Total Baseball, The Total Baseball Catalog, The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, the DVD Reel Baseball: Baseball Films of the Silent Era, 1899-1926, etc. Film critic/commentator, WAMC (Northeast) Public Radio (Web site: www.wamc.org/commentators-edelman.html). Lecturer/presenter, Speakers in the Humanities program, New York State Council for the Humanities. Juror, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum annual film festival. Interviewee, director?s cut DVD, The Natural. Adjunct lecturer, University at Albany (SUNY). Essays: Armstrong; Benton; Bergman; Blier; Burnett; Campion; Costa-Gavras; Dassin; Demme; Demy; Dovzhenko; Erice; Fellini; Forman; Forsyth; Frankenheimer; Godard; Greenaway; Ivory; Jarmusch; Kaurismaki; Kurosawa; Kusturica; Leconte; Loach; Malle; Maysles; Moretti; Marcel Ophuls; Polonsky; Pudovkin; Resnais; Riefenstahl; Roeg; Rohmer; Schl?ndorff; Schrader; Tavernier; Varda; Von Trotta.
Ellis, Jack C.
Professor of film and former chair of the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Also taught at UCLA, New York University, and the University of Texas at Austin. Author of A History of Film, 1979, third edition 1990; John Grierson: A Guide to References and Resources, 1986; and The Documentary Idea, 1989. Founding member and past president of Society for Cinema Studies; editor of society's journal, Cinema Journal, 1976-82. Essay: Marker.
Elsner-Sommer, Gretchen
In the 1980s, Gretchen Elsner-Sommer served as an associate editor of Jump Cut and directed Foreign Images, a distributor of films by European feminist artists. Long interested in the distribution and exhibition of women?s media, Elsner-Sommer worked (1988-1995) with Women in the Director?s Chair, a Chicago-based organization showcasing independent women film and video makers in venues around the country. Elsner-Sommer also sat on the board of Angles: Women Working in Film and Video, a periodical. In this same time frame, Elsner-Sommer served on many local and national funding panels which supported emerging media artists. Since 1995, Elsner-Sommer has lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, engaging in historical research and writing on the lives of women. Her website -- www.lookingoppositely.com ? shifts the focus and angle of observation ?past the insufficient genealogies and the misrouted family stories in which the lives of women have not been well remembered or, in some cases, even remembered at all.? Here, her essays and timelines reshape the telling of family history. Essay: von Trotta.
Erens, Patricia
Associate professor, Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois, since 1977. Author of Akira Kurosawa: A Guide to References and Resources, 1979; and The Jew in American Cinema, 1984; editor of Sexual Stratagems: The World of Women in Film, 1979. Essays: Ichikawa; Pollack.
Estrin, Mark W.
Professor of English and film studies, Rhode Island College, Providence, since 1966. Has published widely on film, dramatic literature, and theatre. Author of books including Conversations with Eugene O'Neill, 1990, and Critical Essays on Lillian Hellman, 1989. Essays: Allen; Nichols.
Faller, Greg S.
Professor of Electronic Media and Film at Towson University since 1986. He received his Masters in Film Production from Syracuse University and his Doctorate in Film Studies from Northwestern University. He has been an essayist, advisor, assistant and associate editor of The International Dictionary of Films & Filmmakers (1984-2001), The Journal of Film & Video (1985-87), Film Reader 5 (1982) and 6 (1985). He has been published in Literature/Film Quarterly, Popular Music and Society, American National Biography, Film Quarterly, Media Criticism (Kendall/Hunt 1992), and The Fifties: Transforming the Screen (Scribners, 2003). He has presented papers at numerous conferences including the Literature/Film Association, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, University Film & Video Association, and the Art Seminar Group. Dr. Faller served as the Director for the Mass Communication Graduate Program (1992-2001). He also ran the Fall Film Series (1989-2009) which hosts an annual, semester-long film series and the Annual Spring Student Media Arts Festival (1989-2009). He helped establish ties between Towson University and the Polish National Film, Television, and Theatre School and co-chaired the inaugural Maryland Sister States International Film Series (2006) which is now an annual state-wide event. Dr. Faller also worked professionally as a film editor. His recent creative work includes collaborating with choreographer Susan Mann to produce dance for the camera. Essays: Lewis; Lubitsch.
Farnsworth, Rodney
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1980. Associate professor of comparative studies, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. Has published internationally in scholarly publications, including Literature/ Film Quarterly. Essay: Herzog.
Felleman, Susan
Susan Felleman is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Women?s Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She is the author of Botticelli in Hollywood: The Films of Albert Lewin (Twayne 1997, Art in the Cinematic Imagination (Texas 2006), and other writings on art, film, and theory. She is currently at work on two book projects: Real Objects in Unreal Situations: Modern Art in Fiction Films and, with Steven Jacobs, a guidebook to an imaginary museum of cinematic art and artists. Essay: Lewin.
Felperin, Leslie
Graduate student in Film, University of Kent, Canterbury. Essay: Armstrong.
Foreman, Alexa
Account executive, Video Duplications, Atlanta, since 1986. Formerly theatre manager, American Film Institute. Author of Women in Motion, 1983. Essay: Malick.
Frampton, Saul
Graduate student at the University of Oxford. Contributor to Time Out and 20/20. Essays: Davies; Greenaway.
Glaessner, Verina
Free-lance critic and lecturer, London. Contributor to Sight and Sound. Essays: Chen Kaige; Rosi.
Gomery, Douglas
Professor, Department of Radio/Television/Film, University of Maryland, and senior researcher, Media Studies Project, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, D.C. Author of High Sierra: Screenplay and Analysis, 1979; Film History: Theory and Practice (co-author), 1985; The Hollywood Studio System, 1986; The Will Hays Papers, 1987; American Media (coauthor), 1989; and Movie History: A Survey, 1991. Essays: Benton; Curtiz; Walsh.
Hanson, Patricia King
Executive editor, American Film Institute, Los Angeles, since 1983. Film critic, Screen International, since 1986. Associate editor, Salem Press, 1978-83. Editor of American Film Institute Catalog of Feature
Films 1911-1920 and 1931-1940. Co-editor of Film Review Index, vols. 1 and 2, 1986-87; and of Source Book for the Performing Arts, 1988. Essays: Mamoulian; Sirk.
Hanson, Stephen L.
Humanities biographer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, since 1969. Film critic, Screen International, since 1986. Associate editor, Salem Press, 1978-83- Co-editor of Film Review Index, vols. 1 and 2, 1986-87, and of Source Book for the Performing Arts, 1988. Essays: Fellini; La Cava; Powell and Pressburger; Rossellini; Wellman.
Heck-Rabi, Louise
Formerly free-lance writer, author of Women Filmmakers: A Critical Reception, 1984, and producer and co-writer of Video Slow Reader, 1991. Died 1995. Essays: Riefenstahl; Varda.
Holdstein, Deborah
Assistant professor of English, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, since 1980. Essay: Pakula.
Hong, Guo-Juin
Guo-Juin Hong is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Chinese Culture in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. He received his PhD in Rhetoric and Film from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. Hong?s forthcoming book, Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen, is the first full-length study of Taiwan cinema in English language scholarship that covers its entire history since the colonial period. Hong?s published articles cover topics on early Shanghai cinema, new Taiwan cinema, documentary film, and queer movement. His essay on colonial modernity in 1930s Shanghai is the winner of the 2009 Katherine Kovacs Essay Awards, Honorable Mention, by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Hong teaches courses on Chinese-language cinemas, film historiography, melodrama, documentary, and visual culture. Essay: Marker.
Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Professor of film, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Author of Don Siegel, Director, 1973; Clint Eastwood, 1974; American Film Genres, 1977; John Huston, Maker of Magic, 1978; Coop: The Life and Legend of Gary Cooper, 1980; Basic Filmmaking (co-author), 1981; American Television Genres, 1985; and Writing for Television, 1988. Editor of Ingmar Bergman: Essays in Criticism, 1975. Also a novelist; works include Murder on the Yellow Brick Road, 1978; He Done Her Wrong, 1983; A Cold, Red Sunrise, 1988; and Buried Caesars, 1989. Essays: Huston; Leone.
Kanoff, Joel
Lecturer in the visual arts, Princeton University, New Jersey, since 1983. Essays: De Sica; Visconti.
Kehr, Dave
Film critic, Chicago Tribune, since 1986. Essays: Edwards; Tati.
Kemp, Philip
London-based free-lance reviewer and film historian. Contributor to Sight and Sound, Variety, and Film Comment. Author of Lethal Innocence: The Cinema of Alexander Mackendrick, 1991, and of a forthcoming biography of Michael Balcon. Essays: Clair; Mackendrick; Penn; Nicholas Ray; Sayles; Wilder.
Khanna, Satti
Research associate, Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley, since 1976. Author of Indian Cinema and Indian Life, 1980. Essay: Satyajit Ray.
Kupferberg, Audrey E.
Film historian and archivist. Lecturer in Film Studies, Art Department,University at Albany (SUNY).Co-author of Angela Lansbury: A Life on Stage and Screen, 1996, Meet the Mertzes, 1999, Matthau: A Life, 2002. Former Director, Yale University Film Study Center. Former Assistant Director, The National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute. Former Project Director, The American Film Institute Catalog. Contributor to The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Women Filmmakers and Their Films, Leonard Maltin's Family Film Guide, The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films, 1961-70, The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films, 1911-20, The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films, Film Beginnings 1893-1910, The Whole Film Source Book, The Most Important and Misappreciated American Films, Before Hollywood: Turn-of-the-Century Films from American Archives. Film Commentator, WAMC (Northeast) Public Radio. Film consultant, The Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College. Former adjunct instructor, University of Bridgeport. Essay: Edwards.
Lanza, Joseph
Free-lance writer. Author of Fragile Geometry: The Films, Philosophy and Misadventures of Nicolas Roeg, 1989. Contributor to Kirkus Reviews, Performing Arts Journal, Research, and Forum. Essay: Roeg.
Lockhart, Kimball
Member of the faculty, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Founding editor, Enclitic, 1977-80, and member of editorial board, Diacritics, since 1978. Essay: Antonioni.
Lorenz, Janet E.
Associate editor and film critic, Z Channel Magazine, since 1984. Assistant supervisor, University of Southern California Cinema Research Library, Los Angeles, 1979-82; and film critic, Selec TV Magazine, 1980-84. Essay: Losey.
Lowry, Ed
Formerly assistant professor of film studies, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Contributor to various film periodicals. Died 1987. Essays: Aldrich; Minnelli; Stahl.
Macnab, G.C.
Free?lance writer, researcher, and filmmaker, London. Author of J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry. Essays: Marcel Ophuls; Rivette; Schrader; Tarkovsky.
Mancini, Elaine
Has taught film at the College of Staten Island, and at St. John's University, New York. Author of The Films of Luchino Visconti: A Reference Guide, and The Struggles of the Italian Film Industry during Fascism. Essay: Lattuada.
Manvell, Roger
Formerly professor of film, Boston University. Director, British Film Academy, London, 1947-59; governor and head of Department of Film History, London Film School, until 1974; Bingham Professor of the Humanities, University of Louisville, 1973. Author of numerous novels, biographies, and books on film, including: Film, 1944; The Animated Film, 1954; The Living Screen, 1961; New Cinema in Britain, 1969; Films and the Second World War, 1975; Ingmar Bergman, 1980; and Images of Madness: The Portrayal of Insanity in the Feature Film, with Michael Fleming, 1985. Died 1987. Essays: Bergman; M?li?s; Sj?str?m; Stiller; von Stroheim.
Marchetti, Gina
Gina Marchetti teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, at the University of Hong Kong. Her books include Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (University of California, 1993), Andrew Lau and Alan Mak?s INFERNAL AFFAIRS?-The Trilogy (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007), and From Tian?anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006), as well as other edited volumes. Essay: Makavejev.
Mast, Gerald
Formerly professor of English and general studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago. Author of numerous books on film, including: A Short History of the Movies, 1971, third edition, 1981; The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies, 1974, 1979; Film/ Cinema/Movie: A Theory of Experience, 1977, 1982; and Howard Hawks.- Storyteller, 1982. Died 1987. Essays: Chaplin; Hawks; Keaton; Sennett; Truffaut.
McCarty, John
Free-lance writer, East Greenbush, New York. Host, narrator, and writer of television series The Fearmakers: The Screen's Directorial Masters of Suspense and Terror, 1996, based on his 1994 book of the same name. Author of Splatter Movies: Breaking the Last Taboo of the Screen, 1984; John McCarty's Official Splatter Movie Guide, Volume 1, 1989, and Volume 2, 1992; Movie Psychos and Madmen: Film Psychopaths from Jekyll and Hyde to Hannibal Lecter, 1993; Thrillers: Seven Decades of Classic Film Suspense, 1992; The Modern Horror Film: Fifty Contemporary Classics, 199O; The Complete Films of John Huston, 1992; Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Ten-Year Television Career of the Master of Suspense, 1985; and the horror novel Deadly Resurrection, 1990. Essays: Lumet; Lynch; Polanski; Pollack.
Merritt, Russell
Visiting Professor, University of California -- Berkeley. Essay: Griffith.
Michaels, Lloyd
Professor of English, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania. Editor of Film Criticism since 1977. Author of Elia Kazan: A Guide to References and Resources, 1983; The Phantom of the Cinema: Character in Modern Film, 1997; Ingmar Bergman?s Persona, 1999; Terrence Malick, 2009. Essay: Kazan.
Milicia, Joseph
Has taught at Colgate University, Stevens Institute, Northwestern University, and the University of Wisconsin?Sheboygan. Has published articles on science fiction film. Also contributor to the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ?Volume 1: Films, Volume 3: Actors and Actresses, and Volume 4: Writers and Production Artists. Essays: Hartley; Soderbergh; Wenders.
Miller, Norman
Journalist and author, London. Author of Toontown: Cartoons, Comedy, and Creativity, and contributor to a variety of periodicals. Essay: Demme.
Monty, lb
Director of Det Danske Filmmuseum, Copenhagen, since 1960. Literary and film critic for newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, since 1958. Editor in chief of the film periodical Kosmorama, 1960-67. Author of Leonardo da Vinci, 1953. Editor of Se-det-er film I-III (anthology of articles on film), with Morten Piil, 1964-66; and of TV Broadcasts on Films and Filmmakers, 1972. Essay: Dreyer.
Morrison, James E.
James Morrison is Professor of Film and Literature at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of several books on film, including Roman Polanski (2007) and, as editor, Hollywood Reborn: Movie Starts of the 1970s (2010). Essay: Ivory.
Murphy, William T.
Chief, Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Branch, National Archives, Washington, D.C., since 1976. Author of Robert Flaherty: A Guide to References and Resources, 1978. Essay: Flaherty.
Nastav, Dennis
Critic and documentary filmmaker. Essays: Pagnol; Rohmer; Tanner.
Newman, Kim
Free-lance writer and broadcaster. Author of Nightmare Movies, 1988, and Wild West Movies, 1990. Contributor to Sight and Sound, Empire, New Musical Express, and other periodicals. Film critic for Box Office, Channel 4, London. Essay: Lynch.
Obalil, Linda J.
Assistant, Special Effects Unit, Dreamscape, Bruce Cohn Cutris Productions/ Bella Productions, since 1983. Essay: Ulmer.
O'Brien, Daniel
Free-lance writer, London. B.A. in Film Studies and Theology, 1988, and M.A. in Film Studies, 1990, University of Kent. Author of The Hutchinson Encyclopedia, ninth edition. Contributor to Robert Alttnan ?Hollywood Survivor, 1995, and Clint Eastwood ? Filmmaker, 1996. Essay: Lester.
O'Kane, John
Film critic and historian, Minneapolis. Essay: Fassbinder.
O'Leary, Liam
Film viewer, Radio Telefis Eireann, Dublin, 1966-86. Director, Liam O'Leary Film Archives, Dublin, since 1976. Producer, Abbey Theatre, 1944. Director of the Film History Cycle at the National Film Archive, London, 1953-66; co-founder, 1936, and honorary secretary, 1936-44, Irish Film Society. Director of the films Our Country, 1948; Mr. Careless, 1950; and Portrait of Dublin, 1951. Author of Invitation to the Film, 1945; The Silent Cinema, 1965; and Rex Ingram, Master of the Silent Cinema, 1980. Essays: Pabst; Paradzhanov; Maurice Tourneur.
Palmer, R. Barton
R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he also directs the film studies program. Palmer is the author, editor, or general editor of nearly fifty volumes on various literary and cinematic subjects. Essays: Bogdanovich; Coen; Malick; Mazursky; Pakula; Stone; Tarantino.
Petley, Julian
Julian Petley is Professor of Screen Media and Journalism in the School of Arts at Brunel University, London, and co-principal editor of the Journal of British Cinema and Television. Amongst his publications are the co-edited collections Ill Effects: the Media Violence Debate (1997, 2001) and British Horror Cinema (2002), and the books Censoring the Moving Image (co-authored with Philip French, 2007) and Censorship: a Beginner?s Guide (2010). Essays: Loach; Sj?berg.
P?trie, Duncan J.
Research officer at the British Film Institute, London. Author of Creativity and Constraint in the British Film Industry, 1991. Essay: Forsyth.
Phillips, Gene D., S.J.
Professor of English, Loyola University, Chicago, (joined faculty, 1970). Contributing editor, Literature/Film Quarterly, since 1977. Author of several books, including Hemingway and Film, 1980; George Cukor, 1982; Alfred Hitchcock, 1984; Fiction, Film, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1986; Fiction, Film, and Faulkner, 1988; Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema, 1990; and Conrad and Cinema, 1995. Essays: Coppola; Cukor; Kubrick; Reed; Russell; Schlesinger.
Polan, Dana B.
Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University. Essays: Fuller; Tashlin.
Reynolds, Herbert
Historian and project coordinator, Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, New York City, since 1981. Consultant, American Federation of Arts Film Program, since 1982. Essay: Schl?ndorff.
Rubenstein, E.
Formerly coordinator of the Program in Cinema Studies, College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Author of Filmguide to "The General, "1973. Died 1988. Essay: Bu?uel.
Saeli, Marie
Adjunct faculty in English and the Humanities, Triton Community College, River Grove, Illinois, since 1983. Free-lance film reviewer. Executive Director, Franklin Park Public Library, Franklin Park, Illinois, since 2003. Essays: Anderson; Lucas.
Schiff, Lillian
Free-lance film critic and consultant, New York. Author of Getting Started in Filmmaking, 1978. Essays: Akerman; Maysles.
Schuth, H. Wayne
Professor in the Department of Drama and Communications at the University of New Orleans. B.S. and M.A. degrees in Radio, Television, and Film from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Ph.D. in Communications from Ohio State University. Author of Mike Nichols, 1978. Contributor of numerous articles to scholarly journals and film books. Member of board of trustees, University Film and Video Foundation, since 1988. Essay: Nichols.
Selig, Michael
Michael Selig is an Associate Professor of Media Studies and former Department Chair of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston. He has published on a wide range of subjects, from Jerry Lewis to domestic melodrama to war films, in a variety of publications including Screen, Wide Angle, and The Velvet Light Trap. He is the former editor of the Journal of Film and Video. Essay: Vidor.
Shipman, David
Film historian and critic, London. Author of many books, including Brando, 1974; The Story of Cinema: From the Beginnings to Gone with the Wind, 1982; The Story of Cinema: From Citizen Kane to the Present Day, 1984; A Pictorial History of Science Fiction Films, 1985; Marlon Brando, 1989; and The Great Movie Stars: The Independent Years, 1991. Essay: Naruse.
Silet, Charles L.P.
Teacher of film and contemporary culture and literature at Iowa State University. Has written widely on a variety of authors and directors, as well as on topics in film and television. Essay: Lang.
Simmon, Scott
Scott Simmon is Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of California, Davis, and curator of the National Film Preservation Foundation?s first three DVD anthologies and of its forthcoming Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938. For the Library of Congress, he supervised restorations of Lois Weber?s Where Are My Children? and Oscar Micheaux?s Within Our Gates. His books include The Films of D.W. Griffith, King Vidor?American, and The Invention of the Western Film. Essay: Boetticher.
Sitney, P. Adams
P. Adams Sitney, Professor of Visual Art, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, co-founder of Anthology Film Archives and its initial Director of Library and Publications.. Author of Visionary Film, Modernist Montage, Vital Crises in Italian Cinema, Eyes Upside Down; editor of Film Culture Reader, The Essential Cinema, The Avant-Garde Film, The Gaze of Orpheus. Essays: Bresson; Mekas; Olmi.
Skvorecky, Josef
Professor of English and Film, University of Toronto, Canada, since 1969. Author of All the Bright Young Men and Women: A Personal History of the Czech Cinema, 1972; and Jiri Menzel and the History of "Closely Watched Trains, " 1982. Works as novelist include Miss Silver's Past, 1975; The Bass Saxophone, 1977; The Engineer of Human Souls, 1984; and The Miracle Game, 1990. Essay: Forman.
Slide, Anthony
Free-lance writer. Associate film archivist, American Film Institute, 1972-75; resident film historian, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1975-80. Author of many books, including Early American Cinema, 1970; The Griffith Actresses, 1973; The Idols of Silence, 1976; The Big V A History of the Vitagraph Company, 1976; Early Woman Directors, 1977; Aspects of American Film History Prior to 1920, 1978; Fifty Great American Silent Films 1912-20, with Edward Wagenknecht, 1980; The Vaudevillians, 1981; A Collector's Guide to Movie Memorabilia, 1983; Fifty Classic British Films 1932-1982, 1985; The American Film Industry: A Historical Dictionary, 1986; and The International Film Industry: A Historical Dictionary, 1989. Editor of seven-volume Selected Film Criticism, 1896-1950, and Scarecrow Press Filmmakers Series. Essays: Browning; Whale.
Smoodin, Eric
Eric Smoodin is Professor of American Studies and Film Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is the author, most recently, of Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930-1960 (Duke, 2004). Essays: De Mille; Mankiewicz; Sturges; Vigo.
Szymczak, Jerome
Researcher and writer, Alameda, California. Essays: Cameron; Zhang Yi-Mou.
Taylor, Richard
Emeritus Professor of Politics and Russian Studies at Swansea University, Wales, he retired in 2003. Author of numerous articles and books on Soviet cinema, including The Politics of Soviet Cinema, 1917-29, 1979, reprinted 2008; Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, 1979, 2nd edn 1998; The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents, 1896-1939 (co-editor), 1988, reprinted 1994; Eisenstein Rediscovered (co-editor), 1993; and studies of Eisenstein?s films, The Battleship Potemkin, 2000; and October 2002. He is also the editor of the English-language edition of Eisenstein's Selected Works, 1988, 2nd edn 2010. Essays: Eisenstein.
Telotte, J. P.
Associate professor of English, Georgia Institute of Technology. Author of Dreams of Darkness: Fantasy and the Films of Val Lewton, and Voices in the Dark: We Narrative Patterns of Film Noir. Member of Film Criticism and Literature/Film Quarterly editorial boards; and co-editor, Post Script. Essay: Polanski.
Tomlinson, Doug
Associate professor of film studies, Montclair State College, New Jersey. Principal researcher for Voices of Film Experience, edited by Jay Leyda, 1977; and editor of Actors on Acting for the Screen, 1989. Essays: Berkeley; Rossen.
Tudor, Andrew
Professor and Head of Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York. Previously Professor of Sociology at the University of York and Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. Formerly film critic for the journals New Society and New Humanist. Author of Theories of Film, Image and Influence: Studies in the Sociology of Film, Monsters and Mad Scientists: a Cultural History of the Horror Movie, Decoding Culture: Theory and Method in Cultural Studies, as well as numerous articles on aspects of the cinema, of the media, and on culture more generally. Essays: Boorman; Eastwood; Peckinpah; Siegel; Wiseman.
Tyrkus, Michael J.
Award-winning independent filmmaker; co-writer and director of over a dozen short films. Writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema. Contributor to International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, vol 1: Films. Editor of Gay & Lesbian Biography and co-editor of Outstanding Lives: Profiles of Lesbians and Gay Men. In-house project editor for St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia. Essays: Chronology of Film History; Cronenberg.
Urgos?kov?, Blazena
Film historian, Czechoslova-kian Film Archives, Prague. Author of History of Science Fiction Films. Essay: Kieslowski.
Vincendeau, Ginette
Ginette Vincendeau is Professor of Film Studies at King?s College, London. She has written widely on popular French and European cinema and is a regular contributor to Sight and Sound. She is the author of P?p? le Moko (BFI, 1998); Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (Continuum, 2000); Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris (BFI, 2003), and La Haine (I.B. Tauris, 2005). Her collection of essays, Popular French Cinema, From the Classical to the Trans-national will be published by I.B. Tauris in 2011. She is currently writing a book on Brigitte Bardot, French Star, International Icon (BFI/Palgrave) and Cinema Under the Mediterranean Sun: Provence, Marseille and the C?te d?Azur on Film (I.B. Tauris).
Ginette Vincendeau is also the editor of The Encyclopedia of European Cinema (BFI/Cassell, 1995) and co-editor, with Susan Hayward, of French Film: Texts and Contexts (Routledge, 1990 and 2000), with Alastair Phillips, of Journeys of Desire, European Actors in Hollywood (BFI, 2006) and with Peter Graham of The New Wave: Critical Landmarks (BFI, 2009). Essay: Pialat.
Welsh, James M.
Associate professor of English, Salisbury State University, Maryland. Editor, Literature/Film Quarterly. Author of His Majesty the American: The Films of Douglas Fairbanks Sr., 1977; Abel Gance, 1978; Peter Watkins: A Guide to References and Resources, 1986; and Abel Gance and the Seventh Art. Essays: Levinson; Zinnemann.
White,
M. B. White is a Professor in the Department of Radio/TV/Film and doctoral program in Screen Cultures at Northwestern University. She has published widely on film and television. Essays: Autant-Lara; Duras; Resnais.
Williams, Colin
Researcher and writer, London. Essay: Walters.
Wine, Bill
Author, biographies on Johnny Depp and Salma Hayek, 2009. Associate professor of communication at La Salle University, Philadelphia, since 1981. Film critic, KYW Newsradio (CBS), since 2001. Film critic for Fox Television, 1990-2001. Film, theater, television critic, Camden Courier-Post, 1974-1981. Television critic, Village Voice, 1973-1975. Essay: Cassavetes.
Winning, Rob
Author and film scholar, Pittsburgh. Essay: Jarmusch.
Wood, Robin
Professor of film study, Department of Fine Arts, Atkinson College, York University, Toronto, 1977-90. Member of the film studies Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 1969-72, and University of Warwick, England, 1973-77. Member of the editorial board, Cine Action! Author of Hitchcock's Films, 1965; Arthur Penn, 1968; Ingmar Bergman, 1969; Antonioni (co-author), 1970; Claude Chabrol (co-author), 1971; The Apu Trilogy of Satyajit Ray, 1971; Personal Views: Explorations in Film, 1976; Howard Hawks, 1977; The American Nightmare: Essays on the Horror Film (co-author), 1979; Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan, 1985; and Hitchcock's Films Revisited, 1989. Took early retirement to devote himself to fiction, 1990. Novels include That Last and Fatal Time, 1990; and / Remember..., 1991. Essays: Burton; Demy; Franju; Godard; Hitchcock; Mann; McCarey; Max Ophiils; Scorsese; Stone; Tavernier.