Some of the world's most renown scholars, critics and writers have written for Film International. This list is to be considered a work in progress. If you are a contributing writer to the magazine, and your name is missing from the list, or your entry is out-of-date, please get in touch with us. This list is presented in alphabetic order.
 

Gillian Anderson is a musicologist and conductor, USA. She has has worked all over the world. President of the Sonneck Society for American Music 1993-1995. Now a board member of the Film Music Society and a member of the Executive Committee of the Film Music Museum. Books (selected): Music in New York During the American Revolution (Boston: Music Library Association, 1987), Music for Silent Films 1894-1929: A Guide (Washington: Library of Congress 1988), Film Music Bibliography (Hollywood: Society for the Preservation of Film Music, 1995).

Lars Gustaf Andersson, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Film Studies, Lund University. Currently at work with a study of early Swedish experimental cinema.

Steve Anker is the Executive Director of San Fransisco Cinématheque, USA.

Anna Arnman is a PhD in Film Studies at Lund University, Sweden. She has written anthology articles and reviews to several books, including The Man with the Movie Camera (Lund: Absalon, 1999) and Popular Fictions (Stockholm/Stehag: Symposion, 2000). Her latest book is called Hellraiser - Om Clive Barkers Film (Lund: Ellerströms förlag, 2005).

Craig Baldwin, M.A. in 1986 at San Francisco State University, is interested in the recontextualization of found imagery. This has led him to the theories of the Situationist International and to various practices of copy-art, mail art, ’zines, altered billboards, and other creative interventions beyond the fringe of the traditional fine-arts curriculum. His desire is to liquidate the formal distinctions between “popular” and “fine” art, public and “private” imagery, and “political” and “aesthetic” categories through a proliferation of discursive modes. Baldwin currently serves as an independent programmer for various arts-presenting organizations in San Francisco, while teaching part-time. Over the years he has won a number of significant awards for his work. Films: Wild Gunman (20 mins., 1978), RocketKitKongoKit (30 mins., 1986), Tribulation 99 (48 mins., 1991), O No Coronado! (40 mins., 1992), Sonic Outlaws (80 mins., 1995).

John Baxter is a freelance critic and author, France. Books (selected): Fellini (London: Fourth Estate, 1994); Steven Spielberg. The Un-Authorized Biography (London: HarperCollins, 1996); Stanley Kubrick: A Biography (London: HarperCollins, 1997); Mythmaker: The Life and Work of George Lucas (London: HarperCollins, 2002).

Todd Berliner is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He has written for Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Style, Journal of Film and Video, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and is the author of “Hollywood Movie Dialogue and the ‘Real Realism’ of John Cassavetes,” Film Quarterly 52:3 (Spring 1999) 2-16.

Robert Bodle recently completed his Ph.D. in Critical Studies at the School of Cinema/Television, University of Southern California. His dissertation, Radical Culture in the Digital Age: A Study of Critical New Media Practice, examines online cultural activism and issues of access and control in informational politics. His most recent essay, “Online Activist Collectives in Los Angeles: An Argument Against the Dematerialization View of Cyberspace,” was published in Leonardo Electronic Almanac, October 2003, by MIT Press. Robert was an early participant in the Indymedia Movement and co-organizer of the Los Angeles Independent Media Center. He currently works in video production and is Director of a Community Newspaper Project with disadvantaged kids in San Diego, CA.

Dan Callahan is a freelance writer based in New York City, USA. He studied acting at New York University and upon graduation took the job of Arts Editor at Show Business Weekly, a position he held for three years. Dan has also written about film for Time Out New York, and various websites.

Valeria Camporesi is an Associate Professor of Film and Audiovisual Media History in the Art History and Theory Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She also teaches in the PhD Program in Film History of the same University. Since 1989 she lives and works in Madrid. Her current research interests range from extensive and intensive analyses of representations of Spanish cultural identity in film history (an overall approach can be found in her book Un cine para los españoles, 1940-1990); historical approaches to intertextuality in European film history; analysis of changing patterns of verisimilitude in production and reception of audiovisual media; and explorations of the establishment of electronic media in relation with European film history of the 1960s. Books: Para grandes y chicos. Un cine para los españoles, 1940-1990 (Turfán, 1994). Mass Culture and National Traditions. The BBC and American Broadcasting, 1922-1954 (European Press Academic Publishing, 2001; a book on British reactions to Americanization in broadcasting history in the inter-war years.)

Sven E Carlson teaches media at Birka Folh High School, Sweden. He is also a lecturer in film sound technique and aesthetics, publisher of the web site www.filmsound.org and a honorary member of the Swedish Sound Editors Association, FSFL (Föreningen Svenskt FilmLjud).

Evans Chan is a New York-based critic and filmmaker who recently won a Golden Plaque at the 2005 Chicago International Television Competition for his TV short Subway, New York. Chan's filmography includes four narrative features (To Liv(e), Crossings, Bauhinia, and The Map of Sex and Love) and five documentaries, including Journey to Beijing, Adeus Macau, and The Life and Times of Wu Zhong Xin. His latest documentary is Sorceress of the New Piano – The Artistry of Margaret Leng Tan. His filming of Tan's performance of George Crumb's Makrokosmos I & II was released on DVD by Mode Records this spring. His website can be found at www.evanschan.com.

James Chapman is a Lecturer in Film and Television History at The Open University, UK. Books: The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-1945 (London: I B Tauris, 1998); Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films (London: I B Tauris, 1999); Saints and Avengers: British Adventure Series of the 1960s (London: I B Tauris, 2002); Cinemas of the World: Film and Society from 1895 to the Present (London: Reaktion Books, 2003).

Steve Chibnall is the Head of Film Studies and Co-ordinatior of the British Cinema and Television Research Group at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is a contributor to Cineaste, Sight and Sound, and numerous academic journals. His next project is a history of the British ‘B’ movie. 

John R. Cook is a Senior Lecturer in Mass Media at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. Books: Dennis Potter: A Life on Screen (Manchester: Manchester University Press; 1st ed. 1995; rev. 2nd ed. 1998); (co-editor) The Passion of Dennis Potter: International Collected Essays (St. Martin's Press, New York, 2000); (co-author) Freethinker: The Life and Work of Peter Watkins (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming). Also: researcher, writer and narrator of critical commentaries and other special features, DVD release of Culloden (dir. Peter Watkins, UK 1964), British Film Institute, Archive Television series, 2003.

Jeffrey Crouse, Acquisitions Editor at Parmenides Publishing, has a PhD in Film and Television Studies from Warwick University, England. Beginning in 2003, with his essay ‘Letting His Wish Provide the Occasion: Fred Astaire in Top Hat’, he has been a regular contributor to Film International. In 2006 he was the guest editor for the Stanley Cavell special issue, followed by the André Bazin one in 2007, and Film and the Romantic in 2009. In 2008 he was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year for his work in the Philosophy Department at UNLV.

Nicholas J. Cull is Professor in American Studies, University of Leicester, UK. He was educated at the University of Leeds and Princeton University, where he held a Harkness Fellowship. He has written widely on issues of film and history. His current project is a history of the United States Information Agency, 1953-1999. Books: Selling War: British Propaganda and American ‘Neutrality’ in World War Two (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).

Marina Dahlquist is a PhD at Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Robert von Dassanowsky is Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is the founding co-director of the Austrian American Film Association, writes a column for the European Film magazine Celluloid, contributes to the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and is an independent film producer. His latest book, Austrian Cinema: A History (2005), is the first English-language survey of that nation's cinema art and industry.

Paul Dave is a Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of East London. Researching class and contemporary cinema. Next publication: Visions of England: Class and Contemporary Cinema (forthcoming, Berg).

Martin Degrell is a member of the Film International editorial board, and the Online Editor of the magazine. He is the Film Editor of Plaza Magazine, member of Sweden's most popular film and TV blog collective Weird Science, and a prolific freelance writer in various newspapers and magazines. A filmmaker, independent scholar and critic, he lives in Malmö, Sweden. His twitter account can be found here.

Tony Earnshaw is the Head of Film Programming at The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, United Kingdom.

Arthur M. Eckstein, Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the author of two books and almost 40 articles on imperialism (mostly but not solely in the ancient world). He has also written reviews for Film Quarterly, and his article, ”Darkening Ethan: John Ford's The Searchers from Novel to Screenplay to Screen,” Cinema Journal 38 (1998), was nominated for the Katherine Kovaks Award for Outstanding Scholarly Article on Film. Books: (co-editor) The Searchers: Essays and Reflections on John Ford’s Classic Western (forthcoming from Wayne State University Press).

Richard Edwards received his Ph.D. in Critical Studies from USC's School of Cinema-Television. He recently was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Communication at St. Mary's College of California. His ongoing research focuses on the relationship between emerging technologies and media activism since 1968, especially three key moments: video in the 1960s/1970s, satellite broadcasting in the 1980s, and the World Wide Web in the 1990s/2000s. Richard Edwards is also a media activist who has participated in a variety of media collectives, including Indymedia.org.

Chris Fujiwara, USA, contributing editor of Hermenaut and a regular contributor to The Boston Phoenix. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, Senses of Cinema, Filmfax, Outré, Feed, Suck, Britannica.com, and other publications. Furthermore he has written essays accompanying several Criterion Collection DVDs and has contributed to two critical anthologies, The Film Comedy Reader (Limelight Editions) and The Science Fiction Reader (forthcoming from Limelight Editions). Fujiwara is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics. He is currently working with A. S. Hamrah on a book on world cinema in the 1970s, to be published by Basic Books. Fujiwara is also working on a study of the films of Jerry Lewis, to be published by the University of Illinois Press, and a critical biography of Otto Preminger, to be published by Faber & Faber. Books: Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). His website can be found here.

Tag Gallagher, PhD in cinema studies, USA. He has written innumerable essays and articles. Books: John Ford. The Man and His Films (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988); The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini (New York: Da Capo Press, 1998).

Associate Professor Andrew Gordon has been a member of the University of Florida faculty since 1975, teaching American Fiction since 1945, Jewish-American Fiction, and Science Fiction Literature and Film. He has also been a Fulbright Lecturer in Spain (1973–75), Portugal (1979), and Yugoslavia (1984–85), a visiting professor of contemporary American Literature in Hungary (1995) and Russia (1997), and an invited lecturer at universities in France, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, and Poland. Professor Gordon's publications include An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer (Farleigh Dickinson/Associate University Presses, 1980); an anthology co-edited with Peter Rudnytsky, Psychoanalyses/Feminisms (SUNY Press, 2000); and a book co-authored with UF sociologist Hernan Vera, Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). In addition, he has 50 essays and 25 reviews in journals including Modern Fiction Studies, Literature and Psychology, and Saul Bellow Journal, on Jewish-American writers such as Bellow, Ozick, and Kosinski, on other contemporary writers such as Barth and Pynchon, and on contemporary American science fiction and SF films. He is currently working on a book on the science fiction and fantasy films of Steven Spielberg. He is an editorial consultant to the journal Science Fiction Studies and to the PSYART Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts (IPSA), and, with Norman Holland, organizes the annual International Conference on Literature and Psychology e-journal.

Barry Keith Grant, Director of the Film Studies Program at Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Books: (co-editor) Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1999); (co-editor) The Dread of Difference. Gender and the Horror Film (Austin, TX: University of Texas press, 1996); (editor) Film Genre Reader II (Austin, TX: University of Texas press, 1995).

Torben Grodal, Professor in Film Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has published 95 articles in Danish and international journals on film teory, film analysis, narrative theory, computer games, literary history and general aesthetics. Books: (co-editor) Tekststrukturer. En indføring i tematisk og narratologisk tekstanalyse (chapters VII-XII; Copenhagen: Borgen 1974 [2nd, revised edition, 1976; reprinted 1978]); (contributor) Dansk Litteraturhistorie, vol. 6: Dannelse, folkelighed, individualisme 1848-1901 (pages 269-316, 333-425, 471-540, 568-614, notes in vol. 9, pages 118-122, 124-12;. Copenhagen: Gyldendal 1985); Cognition, Emotion, and Visual Fiction. Theory and Typology of Affective Patterns and Genres in Film and Television (Copenhagen: Department of Film and Media Studies 1994, 312 pages [Doctoral dissertation; new version: Moving Pictures, 1997]); Moving Pictures. A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition (Oxford: Oxford University Press/Clarendon); Filmoplevelse. En indføring i audiovisuel teori og analyse (Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur 2003).

Judith Halberstam is Professor of English and Director of The Center for Feminist Research at USC. Halberstam teaches courses in queer studies, gender theory, art, literature and film. She has written books such as Posthuman Bodies (Co-Edited with Ira Livingston, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995), Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,1995), Female Masculinity (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,1998), The Drag King Book (with Del LaGrace Volcano. London: Serpent's Tail,1999) and In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (New York University Press, 2005).

Amy R. Handler, MFA, is a filmmaker, film scholar, writer and critic. Her work is speculative – examining time, fate, coincidence and our capacity for good and evil. Aside from Film International, her work appears at Cineaste, Film Threat, Moving Pictures Magazine and other magazines throughout the world. She is presently writing several chapters in the books: German Cinema: A Critical Filmography to 1945, and World Cinema France.

Erik Hedling, Professor of Film Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Books: Lindsay Anderson: Maverick Director (London: Cassell 1999).

Olof Hedling, Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Lund University, Sweden. He received his PhD in 2001. He has written more than a hundred essays, articles and reviews, covering a wide array of topics, in books, journals, magazines and newspapers. Books: Robin Wood - brittisk filmkritiker (Lund: Filmhäftet 2001).

Daniel Herbert is an assistant professor in Screen Arts & Cultures at the University of Michigan. He holds a Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California. His essays appear in several edited collections and journals, including Film Quarterly and Millennium Film Journal.

Soo Yee Ho, PhD, Senior Tutor, Division of Communication Research, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Bert Hogenkamp, Head of Research at the Nederlands Audiovisueel Archief and also eaches at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is a film historian and has written extensively on the relationship between film, the working class and the labour movement. Books (incomplete): Deadly Parallels: Film and the Left in Britain, 1929-39 (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1986); Film, Television and the Left in Britain, 1950 to 1970 (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2000).

Tom Hopkins, M.A. in Cinema Studies, New York University.

I.Q. Hunter, Senior Lecturer in Film at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Current research is on Hammer's SF and fantasy films, British exploitation cinema, and British spy films. Books: (co-editor) Trash Aesthetics. Popular Culture and Its Audience (London: Pluto Press 1997); (co-editor) Alien Identities. Exploring Differences in Film and Fiction (London: Pluto Press 1999); (editor) British Science Fiction Cinema (London: Routledge 1999); (co-editor) Retrovisions. Re-Inventing the Past in Film and Fiction (London: Pluto Press 2001).

Ira Jaffe, retired since July 2003 as Professor and chair of the Department of Media Arts at the University of New Mexico. His essays on Welles and Chaplin appear, respectively, in the books Perpectives on Citizen Kane (ed. Ronald Gottesman) and Hollywood as Historian. American Film in a Cultural Context (ed. Peter Rollins). He is co-editor (with Diana Robin) of Redirecting the Gaze. Gender, Theory, and Cinema in the Third World (State University of New York Press), and his reviews and articles have appeared in ARTSPACE, Contemporary Arts Quarterly, East-West Film Journal, Film Quarterly, Journal of Film and Video, Literature/Film Quarterly. Jaffe is also the author of Hollywood Hybrids. Mixing Genres in Contemporary Films (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), and his essay Errol Morris's Forms of Control, which originally appeared in Film International, will appear in the book Three Documentary Filmmakers (ed. William Rothman, State University of New York Press, 2009).

David E. James, Professor at the School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California, USA. Books: Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989); Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture (London and New York: Verso, 1996). (co-editor) The Hidden Foundation: Cinema and the Question of Class (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,1996).

Marian Keane, PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University, USA. She has taught film at the University of Colorado, MIT, Harvard, and at the University of Stockholm on a Fulbright Fellowship. Also, she has written numerous essays and recorded DVD commentaries for The Criterion Collection, most recently on their releases of Spellbound and Rebecca. Currently she is writing about films by American documentarian Frederick Wiseman. BOOKS: (co-author) A Philosophical Perspective on Film: ’Reading Cavell's The World Viewed’ (Detroit, Ill: Wayne State University Press, 2000).

Omar Kholeif Omar Kholeif is a UK-based writer, and film programmer. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, PopMatters, Film International, The Pink News What’s On Stage, Scope, and The Advocate, to name but a few. His dramatic writing has been produced professionally for the stage, and his short films have been developed through the UK Film Council. Omar is a graduate of the University of Glasgow (Film & Television Studies and Politics) & Screen Academy Scotland, and is an Inspire candidate at the Royal College of Art, London and FACT (The Foundation For Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool. He is also a contributor to Document (www.docfilmfest.org.uk), the UK’s only documentary film festival, with a human rights focus, based at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Glasgow, Scotland. To find out more about the author, and his work, please visit: www.everythingok.co.uk

Maaret Koskinen, Professor at Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. Fulbright grantee at Cornell University 1994. Organizor of the first "Ingmar Bergman Symposium" 2005. Publications on authorship, intermediality, and popular film have appeared in a number of national and international films journals. BOOKS: Nothing is, Everything Represents: Ingmar Bergman and Interartiality (Nora: Nya Doxa 2001); In the Beginning Was the Word: Ingmar Bergman and His Early Writings (Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 2002). Forthcoming on Wallflower Press in 2007 (editor) : Ingmar Bergman Revisited. New Perspectives on Artistic Intermediality, with contributions by, amongst others, Janet Staiger, Thomas Elsaesser, Paisley Livingston, and Liv Ullmann.

Gary M. Kramer is a freelance writer and film critic. His book, Independent Queer Cinema: Reviews and Interviews is forthcoming from Haworth Press in June, 2006.

Bill Lawrence, Head of Film, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, UK. He is also on the board of Screen Yorkshire, one of England’s newly established regional screen agencies. He has worked in cinema exhibition for 25 years.

Charles Jason Lee, PhD, has taught film at the University of Essex, the University of Central Lancashire and the University of Hertfordshire. He is currently Lecturer in Creative Writing at St Martin's College, Lancaster, UK. His publications included the double volume The Metaphysics of Mass Art. He is working on Screening Abuse-Child: Sexual Abuse in Film for Wallflower Press, London.

Nam Lee, Ph.D. student, Cinema Studies, USC, Los Angeles, USA.

Manana Lekborashvili, film critic, PhD candidate at Tbilisi State University of the Theatre and Cinema in Republic of Georgia, working on the thesis about genre features of the Georgian cinema.

Esther Leslie teaches in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London. Her writings include Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism (Pluto 2000), and Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant GardeHistorical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, Radical Philosophy and Revolutionary History, and has also edited and contributed to a collection called Mad Pride: A Celebration of Mad Culture. She translated Georg Lukács' A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic, (Verso 2000). Essays by her have appeared in Things, New Formations, New Left Review, Journal of Design History, Inventory, De-, Dis-, Ex-, Modernism/Modernity, Theory, Culture, Society and Mute. Her website can be found at www.militantesthetix.co.uk. (Verso 2002). Her next book is a study of the German chemical industry in relation to the Romantic philosophy of nature, and the politics and poetics of modernity.

Jon Lewis, Professor of English, Oregon State University, USA. Beginning January 1, 2003, he will begin a five-year term as editor of Cinema Journal. BOOKS: The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture (New York: Routledge, 1992); Whom God Wishes to Destroy... Francis Coppola and the New HollywoodHollywood v Hard Core: How the Struggle Over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry (New York: New York University Press, 2000); (editor) The New American Cinema; (editor) The End of Cinema as We Know It: American Film in the Nineties (New York: New York University press, 2001). (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995);

Mikael Lindström, M.A. in Cinema Studies, University of Stockholm.

Daniel Lindvall is Film International's editor-in-chief. He's a freelance writer and a PhD student in Cinema Studies at Lund University, Sweden. His research interests include visions of the global justice movement in feature films, Marxism and cultural politics, the labour movement and class relations on screen, avantgardism and revolutionary socialism between the World Wars, and participatory culture as a means of democratic social change.

Pär Linnertz is the chairman of the Film International board. An independent scholar, he lives in Lund, Sweden.

Jan Lumholdt, freelance writer, Sweden. He has contributed to several daily papers, the Swedish Filmography and Film Comment. BOOKS: (editor) Lars von Trier: Interviews (Jackson, Miss: University Press of Mississippi, 2003).

Robert W. McChesney, Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is also co-editor of the independent socialist magazine Monthly Review and host of the weekly talk show Media Matters, on WILL-AM radio. He has written eight books and hundreds of journal and newspaper articles on subjects such as the political economy of communication, twentieth century media history, and media and social change. BOOKS (selected): (co-author) Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002).

Patrick McGilligan, USA, freelance writer and author of many books include several biographies, a series of interview books with screenwriters and documentations of the Hollywood Blacklist. BOOKS: Cagney: The Actor as Auteur (New York: Barnes, 1975), Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters from Hollywood’s Golden AgeBackstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters from the 1940s and 1950sBackstory 3: Interviews with Screenwriters from the 1960s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), Robert Altman: Jumping Off the Cliff (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1989), George Cukor: A Double Life (London: Faber and Faber, 1991), Jack’s Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson (London: Hutchinson, 1994), (co-author) Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1997), Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast (London: Faber and Faber, 1997), Clint: The Life and Legend (London: HarperCollins, 1999; New York: St Martin’s Press, 2002), Film Crazy: Interviews with Hollywood Legends (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000), Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (New York: ReganBooks, 2003). (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986),

John McMurria, PhD candidate, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University, USA. He is working on projects involving digital television policy, transnational television programming, and Hollywood’s international financing. He has written anthology and encyclopedia articles. BOOKS: (co-author) Global Hollywood (London: BFI, 2001).

Gina Marchetti, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College, USA. Member of the editorial board of scholarly journals Popular Communication and Jump Cut.

Christer Mattsson, PhD student, Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, USA.

Ranjani Mazumdar, independent filmmaker, film scholar and visiting faculty at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre (MCRC), Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. An alumnus of MCRC, Mazumdar received her Ph.d in Cinema Studies from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University in 2001. She is co-founder member of Mediastorm, a collective of six women filmmakers. Her publications and films focus on women's issues, popular cinema, politics, and everyday lives. Currently Mazumdar is working on a historical study of the Bombay Film Poster along with a co-authored book on the Contemporary Indian Film Industry.

Xavier Mendik, Director of the Cult Film Archive, University College, Northampton, UK. BOOKS (selected): (editor) Shocking Cinema of the Seventies (Hereford: Noir Publishing, 2002), (co-editor) Underground USA: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon (London & New York: Wallflower Press, 2002).

Toby Miller, Professor in the Cinema Studies Department, New York University, USA. BOOKS: The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject (Baltimore, Md: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993); The AvengersTechnologies and the Truth (1998); (co-author) Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Thousand Oakes, CALIF: Sage, 1998); (co-editor) SportcultFilm and Theory: An Anthology (Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishing, 2000); (co-editor) A Companion to Film Theory (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999); SportsexGlobalization and Sport: Playing the World (London: Sage, 2001); (editor) A Companion to Cultural Studies (London: Blackwell, 2001); (associate editor) The Television Genre Book (London: BFI 2001), (editor) Television Studies (London: BFI, 2002). (London: BFI, 1997); (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001); (Minneapolis, Minn: Universityn of Minnesota Press, 1999); (co-editor)

Caroline Moine is a film historian and a Ph D-student at the Paris 1/Sorbonne university, though presently living in Berlin. Her main interest is GDR fiction films and documentaries, and the theme of her dissertation is the history of the international documentary film festival in Leipzig between 1955 and 1990.

Dave Monahan is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His short films have screened at the Rotterdam, Chicago, Edinburgh, Karlovy Vary, Moscow, Adriatico, Melborne, Sao Paolo and Barcelona International Film Festivals. He is currently a contributing consultant and supplementary materials author for W.W. Norton’s “Looking At Movies” film studies textbook.

Patrick Murphy, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television, St John’s York, UK. He is in the process of submitting a PhD by publication to the University of Leeds. He has a background in film and television production in the UK and the US and has written a number of articles on Peter Watkins for national UK newspapers, magazines and academic journals. Watkins invited him to write and record the Director’s Commentary for the BFI’s DVD of The War Game and a verbal essay on the extent of the controversy that blighted the film. BOOKS: (co-author)The War Game (dir. Peter Watkins, UK 1965), British Film Institute, Archive Television series, 2003. Freethinker: The Life and Work of Peter Watkins (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming). 

Robert Murphy, Professor in film studies, De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. BOOKS (selected): Realism and Tinsel (London: Routledge, 1989); Sixties British Cinema (London: BFI, 1992); (co-editor) British Crime Cinema (London: Routledge, 1999); (editor) British Cinema of the 90s (London: BFI, 1999); British Cinema and the Second World War (London: Continuum, 2000); (editor) The British Cinema Book (London: BFI 1997; 2nd ed. 2001).

Eija Niskanen, PhD student, Film Studies program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and film / DVD / festival review editor for Film International. Her research interest is Japanese cinema, and she has been a research student at Nihon University in Tokyo. Her home country is Finland, where she is one of the programmers for Helsinki International Film Festival.

Jakob J. Norberg, PhD student in Germanic Philology at Princeton University, USA.

Onookome Okome earned his PhD from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 1991 and taught theater and cinema studies at the Department of Theatre Arts, University of Calabar, Nigeria from 1989 to 2002. With Jonathan Haynes, he coauthored Cinema and Social Change in Nigeria (Jos: Nigerian Film Corporation). He edited Before I am Hanged: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Literature, Politics and Dissent, a book of essays on the slain minority rights activist published by Africa World Press, New Jersey. He has also edited and introduced a book of essays on the Niger Delta poet and scholar based in North Carolina, Professor Tanure Ojaide, Writing the Homeland: The Poetry and Politics of Tanure Ojaide (Bayreuth African Studies Press (2002). He is currently working on a book of essays on re-thinking Chinua Achebe in the literary debate on globality/locality and a full length study of the video film phenomenon in Nigeria, Stories About the Postcolony: The Nigerian Video Film. Dr. Okome is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He is widely traveled and has given lectures in Israel, Switzerland, Ghana, Germany, England, Italy, the US and Canada. Okome now teaches African literature and cinema at the Department of English, University of Alberta, Canada. He holds a position as associate professor of African literature and cinema.

Liza Palmer is Film International's Review and Festival Editor. She holds a BA in film from Bard College and a MA in film studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, she serves as Film Studies Librarian at William Madison Randall Library, University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Tim Palmer, Assistant Professor, Film Studies at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA. He received a Research MA from Warwick University, England, and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He has published articles on French cinema, Japanese film and classical Hollywood cinema. His current research interests include revisionist historiographies of French filmmaking, contemporary American independent film, and acting in cinema.

Manjunath Pendakur, Professor & Dean, Southern Illinois University, USA. Pendakur's research interests are in the political economy of communication, ethnography, critical cultural theory, and Third World cinema. He has done field research in the US, Canada, Africa and India. His current work focuses on globalization of the U.S. and Indian film industries and public policy. BOOKS: Canadian Dreams and American Control: The Political Economy of the Canadian Film Industry (Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1990); (co-editor) Citizenship and Participation in the Information Age (Toronto: Garamond Press 2002); Indian Popular Cinema: Industry, Ideology, and Consciousness (Hampton Press 2003).

Elizabeth Peterson is a Public Services Librarian at University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She provides specialized reference and instruction services to the departments of English, Women's Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Philosophy & Religion, Anthropology, Native American Studies, Middle East Studies, Music, and Forensic Science. She is currently working on a book about American Indian tribal libraries.

Paula Rabinowitz, Professor at the Department of English, University of Minnesota, USA. Her research interests include film, Marxist and feminist theories, and working class and minority writers. BOOKS (selected): Labor and Desire: Women’s Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991); They Must Be Represented: The Politics of DocumentaryBlack and White and Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002). (New York and London: Verso, 1994);

Mario Relich, Ph.D at the University of Edinburgh (1976), M.A. at McGill University. Associate Lecturer in Film Studies for the Open University in Scotland. Articles (with Dennis Walder) on the Edinburgh International Film Festival (1972-76). Articles on African, African-American Films, and Third World films for the weekly newsmagazine West Africa (1978-90), chapter on Ousmane Sembene for Open University Third World Studies course unit (1983), “Acting, Realism and Transcendental Style in the Bill Douglas Film Trilogy and Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher”, Etudes Ecossaises, no. 6 (1999-2000), 65-73.

Mats Rohdin, PhD, Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. BOOKS: Vildsvinet i filmens trädgård (Stockholm: Stockholm University 2003).

Steven J. Ross, Professor of History, University of Southern California, USA. BOOKS (selected): Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).

William Rothman, Professor of Motion Pictures and Videofilm, University of Miami, USA. BOOKS: Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze (Cambridge, Mass: 1982), The ”I” of the Camera (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), (co-author) A Philosophical Perspective on Film: ’Reading Cavell's The World Viewed’ (Detroit, Ill: Wayne State University Press, 2000).

Jeannie Rutenburg, a Lecturer in History at the University of Mary-land, where she teaches courses on European History of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. She studied at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley.Her main areas of specialization are Medieval and Renaissance religious and cultural history, and the history of humanism.

Michelle Scatton-Tessier is an Assistant Professor of French at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA. She has recently contributed to Studies in French Cinema and The French Review. Her current research interests focus on female protagonists in contemporary French cinema.

Christopher Sharrett is Professor of Communication and Film Studies at Seton Hall University. He is the author of The Rifleman, and editor of Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media, Crisis Cinema: The Apocalyptic Idea in Postmodern Narrative Film, and co-editor of Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film. His articles have appeared in Cineaste, Kinoeye, Film Quarterly, Cineaction, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Senses of Cinema, and numerous anthologies, including The End of Cinema as We Know It, Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers, Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch", Perspectives on German Cinema, Japanese Horror Cinema,
and other books.

Tytti Soila, Associate professor, Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. Double Fulbright grantee: at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1992, and The Bunting institute at Harvard University 1998-1999, Cambridge. Visiting Fellow at University of Warwick '93. Publications in Scandinavian film history and feminist film theory. BOOKS: (editor) Nordic National Cinemas (London: Routledge 1998).

Patrik Sjöberg, Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Division of Culture and Communication, Karlstad University, Sweden.

Tom G. Stanek was born and raised in Madison, Wi and attended the University there, graduating in 1970. For much of his life he has been in the food industry and, prior to semi-retiring in 2001, was a food safety/food science "in-house consultant" (as opposed to an outhouse
consultant) for a major food packaging company based in Greenville, S.C. As a foiled and failed writer, Stanek is an avid reader and afficianado of a "good read" of which many abound.

Oliver C. Speck is Assistant Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. He has published essays on Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and on the figure of the parasite in film and literature. He is the author of Der unter-sagte Blick: Zum Problem der Subjektivität im Film (St. Ingbert: Röhrig, 1999). He is currently working on a book on national identity in European cinema.

Moira Sullivan holds a doctoral degree in cinema studies from Stockholm University and is based in Stockhholm. She is a lecturer, non-narrative filmmaker and film critic for venues in Stockholm, Paris, and  San Francisco and contributor to the anthology edited by Bill Nichols: Maya Deren and the American Avantgarde.

John Sundholm, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden.

Michael Tapper is the former editor-in-chief of Film International (formerly Filmhäftet) and a PhD student at Lund University, Sweden. Tapper is also a film critic at Sydsvenska Dagbladet. Books (contributor): Nationalencyklopedin (Höganäs: Bokförlaget Bra Böcker, 1990-1996), Svensk filmografi (Stockholm: Svenska Filminstitutet, 1997-2000), Lars von Trier: Interviews (Jackson, Miss: University Press of Mississippi, 2003), 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (London: New Burlington Books, 2003).

Per Vesterlund, Lecturer, Department of Media, Communication & Film, College University of Gävle, Sweden.

Janet Wasko is Professor and Knight Chair of Communication Research University of Oregon, USA. BOOKS (selected): Movies & Money: Financing the American Film Industry (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp, 1982); Hollywood in the Information Age: Beyond the Silver Screen (Oxford: Polity Press, 1994); Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy (Cambridge: Polity Press/Basil Blackwell, 2001). She has also edited ten other volumes.

Mike Wayne, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Brunel University, UK. This essay develops a chapter on commodity fetishism from his book, Marxism and Media Studies, Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends (Pluto Press, 2003).

Linda Williams is Professor of Rhetoric and Film Studies at University of California, Irvine, USA. BOOKS (selected): Figures of Desire : A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film (2nd edition; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), Hard Core : Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible (expanded edition; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), (co-editor) Reinventing Film Studies (London: Arnold, 2000), Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001).

Peter Wilshire, film critic, Cinema Studies Honours Degree from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He regularily contributes to Metro, Australian Screen Education,and the on-line journal Senses of Cinema.

Ronald Wilson received his PhD in Film Studies from the University of Kansas, USA. He has written reviews for Film Quarterly, Literature/Film Quarterly, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Film-Philosophy, and is a regular contributor to Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies. BOOKS: (contributor) Film Genre 2000: New Critical Essays (Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2000); (contributor) Encyclopedia of Stage Plays Into Film (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2001); (contributing editor) Encyclopedia of Filmmakers (New York: Facts on File Inc., 2002); (contributor) The Columbia Companion to American History on Film (forthcoming from Columbia University Press); (contributor) Mob Culture: Essays on the American Gangster Film (forthcoming from Rutgers University Press)

Robin Wood is a former Professor of Cinema Studies, Canada. Currently he is one of the editors of Canadian cinema journal CineAction. BOOKS (selected): Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986, revised and expanded edition 2003), Hitchcock's Films Revisited (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989; revised edition 2002), Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), The Wings of the Dove (London: BFI 1999), Rio Bravo (London: BFI, 2003).

Ulf Zander, PhD, History, Lund University, Sweden. Except the dissertation Fornstora dagar, moderna tider. Bruk av och debatter om svensk historia från sekelskifte till sekelskifte (Glorious Days, Modern Times. Use of and Debates on Swedish history from theOne turn of Century to theNext) (2001), he has written numerous articles on monuments, film and history, historiography and the uses of history in Sweden and the Baltic Sea region. Zander is also co-editor of volumes dealing with images, the Baltic Sea region, contemporary history and counterfactual history.

Anders Åberg is Associate Professor at the School of Humanities, Växjö University, Sweden. Books: Tabu: Filmaren Vilgot Sjöman (Taboo: Vilgot Sjöman - Film-maker, Lund: Filmhäftet, 2001); (contributor) Mannen med filmkameranThe Man with the Movie Camera, Lund: Absalon, 1999).