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Bill Nichols is Professor of Cinema and Director of the Graduate Program in Cinema Studies at San Francisco State University and a historian and theoretician of documentary film. He edited the two-volume anthology Movies and Methods which helped to define film studies. He is the author of Newsreel: Documentary Filmmaking on the AmericanLeft (Arno Press, 1980), Ideology and the Image (Indiana University Press, 1981), Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde ( University of California Press, 2001) and Introduction to Documentary (Indiana University Press, 2001).

Notes on Contributors

Chris Darke has written on film and the arts for a variety of publications. A collection of his essays, Light Readings: Film Criticism and Screen Arts, was published in 2000 by Wallflower Press. His monograph on Godard's ‘Alphaville' was published in 2005 by I.B.Tauris. He is co-author (with Kieron Corless) of a book on the Cannes Film Festival forthcoming from Faber and Faber. He has lectured at the universities of Warwick, Middlesex and Kent and at the Art Academy in Malmo, Sweden.

Terri Francis is Assistant Professor of Film Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. Her current research interests focus on Josephine Baker's stardom. Her work on Baker, 'Embodied Fictions, Melancholy Migrations: Josephine Baker's Cinematic Celebrity' has been published in Modern Fiction Studies. Her next project will concern Jamaican film history.

Lalitha Gopalan is an Associate Professor and teaches Film Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC. She is the author of Cinema of Interruptions: Action Genresin Contemporary Indian Cinema (BFI, 2002) and Bombay (BFI, 1995)

Chris Jones has taught literature, theatre and film studies for a number of years. He has participated in gay-related theatre and video work. He wrote about Derek Jarman for his film MA. He has taught film theory and creative writing at the University of Greenwich.

Mark Joyce is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Cultural Studies at Southampton Solent University. He is also course leader of the recently validated BA degree programme in media communication. He has co-authored Advanced Level Media (Hodder & Stoughton, 2001) and is currently writing a chapter on ‘Consumer Identities for Key Themes in Interpersonal Communication’ (OUP, 2007).

Searle Kochberg is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and Video Production at the University of Portsmouth. He also works as a film critic and as a consultant to various media/arts organisations.

Lawrence Napper gained his PhD from the University of East Anglia in 2001. He taught at UEA for a number of years, and has also taught at the University of Warwick and at  Kings College, London. He has written variously on British Cinema, including articles on Quota Quickies in Robert Murphy (ed.) The British Cinema Book (BFI Publishing, 1999) and 'British Cinema and the Middlebrow' in Justine Ashby and Andrew Higson (eds) British Cinema: Past and Present (Routledge, 2000). His book on British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture is due to be published by the University of Exeter Press in 2007. He currently lives and works in London.

Jill Nelmes is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of East London and has taught a range of courses from A Level  to postgraduate . She has been an examiner for WJEC media studies. She is also a scriptwriter and has a variety of projects in development. Over the last three years she has spent much time in LA where she worked as a script reader as well as studying screenwriting at UCLA.

Patrick Phillips is Principle Lecturer in Film Studies at Middlesex University and heads up their Media Studies department. He wrote the national syllabus for A Level Film Studies initiated in the year 2000 and is Chief Examiner in A Level Film Studies. He is the author of Understanding Film Texts (British Film Institute, 2000).

Suzanne Speidel is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and Course Leader for BA in Film and Literature at Sheffield Hallam University. She is currently working on a book of film adaptations of the works of E. M. Forster, forthcoming in 2008, and has published articles in books and journals on Joseph Conrad and cinema, and TV drama and narrative theory.

Paul Ward is Senior Lecturer in Animation Theory and History at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. He is the author of Documentary: The Margins of Reality (Wallflower Press, 2005), and numerous journal and anthology articles on documentary and animation. His work has appeared in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Scope: AnOnline Journal of Film Studies and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. He is Reviews Editor for Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal and a Board Member of the Society for Animation Studies.

Paul Watson is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Teesside, UK. He is the co-author of Three Minute Wonders: Music Video and the Politics of Representation (forthcoming) as well as numerous other articles on aspects of film, media and the politics of representation.

Paul Wells is Director of Animation in The Animation Academy at Loughborough University. He has published widely in the field, including Understanding Animation (Routledge 1998), Animation and America (Rutgers University Press, 2002), Animation:Genre and Authorship (Wallflower Press, 2002). He has also made a Channel Four documentary called Cartoons Kick Ass, three BBC programmes on British Animation and an educational video on Special Effects for the British Film Institute.

Additional website contributor

Julia Knight is Reader in Moving Image at the University of Sunderland, and author of New German Cinema: Images of a Generation (2004) and Women and the New German Cinema (1992).  She is currently researching film and video distribution and is co-editor of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.