Maimunah

United Kingdom

Keywords Arisan!, non-normative sexualities, hetero-normativity, Detik Terakhir, Tentang Dia.

Maimunah is a lecturer in Faculty of Humanities, Airlangga University, Surabaya-Indonesia. This article is part of her thesis (master by research) at the University of Sydney (2008). She teaches Film and Literature and Southeast Asian Literature.

Indonesian Queer and the Centrality of Heteronormative Family, Asian Cinema, 21.2, 114–134.

Richard Abel

University of Michigan, Department of Screen Arts & Cultures, 6419 North Quad, 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109–1285, United States of America

Keywords early American cinema, Americanization, French silent cinema

Richard Abel is Robert Altman Collegiate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures at the University of Michigan. His latest book, Americanizing the Movies and 'Movie-Mad' Audiences, 1910 –1914 (California), was published in 2006. Forthcoming books include Early Cinema and the 'National', co-edited with Giorgio Bertellini and Rob King (John Libbey), and Menus for Movie Land: Newspapers and the Movies, 1911–1915.

Frame Stories for Writing the History of French Silent Cinema, Studies in French Cinema, 2.1, 5–13.

Anders Wilhelm Aberg

Institutionen för språk och litteratur, Linnéuniversitetet, 351 95 Växjö, Sweden

Keywords Swedish cinema, Vilgot Sjöman, televised fiction, Swedish children's films

Anders Wilhelm Åberg is an Associate Professor in Film Studies at Linnaeus University of Kalmar/Växjö. He has published a book on the Swedish film-maker Vilgot Sjöman and articles on televised fiction, film criticism and, more recently, on Swedish children's films.

Art is born on the border of taboo: Vilgot Sjöman in Hollywood, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 1.2, 159–162.

May Adadol Ingawanij

University of Westminster, Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), London, United Kingdom

Keywords Thai cinema, cosmopolitanism, world cinema, cinephilia, ultra-modern

May Adadol Ingawanij joined CREAM after completing her Ph.D. at the London Consortium, University of London (with Prof. Laura Mulvey). Her thesis, 'Hyperbolic Heritage: Bourgeois Spectatorship and Contemporary Thai Cinema', traces the relationship between cinematic spectacle, royalism, and the Thai bourgeois fantasy of attaining global prestige by displaying 'world-class Thainess'. The research has been published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (2007), South East Asia Research (2006), and Representing the Rural (2006). May is one of the organisers of the Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas conference, the main forum of intellectual exchange concerning the region's cinemas held on a rotating basis in each of its countries. With Benjamin McKay she is editing the first volume of critical writings on the independent cinemas of the region.

Blissfully whose? Jungle pleasures, ultra-modernist cinema and the cosmopolitan Thai auteur, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 4.1, 37–54.

John Adams

University of Bristol, Department of Drama (Theatre, Film, Television), Cantocks Close, Bristol, BS8 1UP, UK

Keywords screen media, practice research, creative industries, documentation

John Adams is emeritus professor of Film & Screen Media Practice in the School of Arts (Drama) at the University of Bristol, where he taught for many years. He has produced and/or directed over 30 broadcast films and theatre productions, and co-founded and has chaired the Watershed Media Centre (Bristol) and the production company Watershed Television Ltd. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Media Practice, a member of the Higher Education Funding Council media and communications panel for the RAE 2008. He writes and lectures on practice-based approaches to screen media teaching and research. His current interests include film and creative industries policy, space and place in film, and screen acting and performance.

Book Reviews, Film International, 3.13, 50–51.

Adewole Adejayan

University of Ibadan, UI, Oyo State, Ibadan, Oyo State, P O Box 21156, Nigeria

Keywords soccer, fandom, Nollywood, cultural passage, Nigeria, Thierry Henry

Adewole Adejayan is a postgraduate student of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His current research explores the intersection between religion and African politics.

Thierry Henry as Igwe: Soccer fandom, christening and cultural passage in Nollywood, Journal of African Cinemas, 3.1, 25–42.

Mara Adelman

Seattle University, Department of Communication, 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, United States of America

Keywords social support systems, AIDS, communication, community development

Mara Adelman (Ph.D., University of Washington) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Seattle University. Her research is on social support systems and AIDS; communication and community development; intercultural communication; cross-cultural adaptation/expatriation; service industry and interpersonal communication; communication networks and restorative solitude. Dr Adelman is a co-author on four books and her research has been published in Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Journal of Health Communication and Journal of Marriage and the Family, among others.

Looking for Love in All the White Places: A Study of Skin Color Preferences on Indian Matrimonial and Mate-Seeking Websites, Studies in South Asian Film & Media, 1.1, 65–83.

Gbemisola Adeoti

Obafemi Awolowo University, Department of English, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Keywords governance, Nigeria, theatre, video, Yoruba

Gbemisola Adeoti (Ph.D.) is lecturer in the English Department of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. His areas of teaching and research include Dramatic Literature, Poetry, Literary History/Theory and Popular Culture. He is the author of Naked Soles, co-editor (with Bjorn Beckman) of Intellectuals and African Development and editor of Muse and Mimesis: Critical Perspectives on Ahmed Yerima's Drama. He was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the School of English, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, from October to December 2008. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the African Humanities Program organized by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

Home video films and the democratic imperative in contemporary Nigeria, Journal of African Cinemas, 1.1, 35–56.

Gunhild Agger

Aalborg Universitet, Department of Culture and Global Studies, Kroghstraede 3, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark

Keywords Swedish and Danish TV crime fiction, best-seller, blockbuster, The Killing, emotion, gender and genre

Gunhild Agger, D. Phil, is Professor at Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. Agger has been the director of a cross-disciplinary research programme 'Crime Fiction and Crime Journalism in Scandinavia', funded by the Danish Research Council for Culture and Communication (cf. www.krimiforsk.aau.dk). Her current research areas include history of the media, national film, television drama, theory of genre and style. She is co-editor of Medieog Kommunikationsleksikon (2009). She has published a number of books and articles in Danish and co-edited Den skandinaviske krimi – bestseller og blockbuster (2010). Among her publications in English and French are Approaches to Scandinavian Crime Fiction (2010)

http://www.krimiforsk.aau.dk/uk/awpaper/Agger_ApproachesToScandinavien CrimeFiction.w15.pdf; 'Histoire et culture mediatique: le roman policier historique en Scandinavie' 2010; 'The element of childhood. From children's television to Dogme 95'.

Emotion, gender and genre: Investigating The Killing, Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, 9., 111–125.

Media and crime: Fiction and journalism, Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, 9., 3–7.

Wisdom Agorde

University of Alberta, Department of English and Film Studies, 3–89 Humanities Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E5, Canada

Keywords evangelical Pentecostal churches, 'charismatic churches', The Broken Wall, masculinity, hallelujah video films

Wisdom Agorde teaches at the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton. He specializes in Ghanaian dance, theatre and music. He has an MA in Drama from the University of Alberta and is currently working towards his Ph.D. in English and Film Studies in the Department of English. Wisdom teaches, choreographs and coordinates all the dances and the movements within the West African Music Ensemble course.

Creating the balance: hallelujah masculinities in a Ghanaian video film, Film International, 5.4, 51–63.

Louise Agostino

Keywords cinema, horror

Louise Agostino is an undergraduate enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts course at Melbourne University, Australia. Majoring in Cinema Studies, her interests lie with early horror and classic cinema. She enjoys writing about film and maintains a blog called Cupcake Suspiria. http://cupcakesuspiria.blogspot.com/

Reviews DVDs, Film Matters, 2.2, 37–40.

Talat Ahmed

Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of History, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, United Kingdom

Keywords art house, Bollywood, All-India Progressive Writers' Association (AIPWA), Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), Satyajit Ray

Talat Ahmed is a Teaching Fellow in Modern South Asian History at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) University of London. She has recently completed a Ph.D. on the Progressive Writers' Movement in South Asia: 1932–56.

Realism in South Asian cinema, Film International, 4.24, 40–49.

Soo Jeong Ahn

Pusan National University, Ga-102, 474–5, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 143–858, Korea Sout

Keywords South Korean cinema, Kim Ki-Young, Shin Sang-Ok, auteur, Asian cinema

Soo Jeong Ahn is the author of the chapter 'Bibliography of Works on Korean Cinema' in New Korean Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2005). Her essays on film festivals and Asian cinema have been published in the anthologies What a Difference a Region Makes: Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in North-East Asia (Hong Kong University Press) and in Cinemas, Identities and Beyond (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). She currently teaches at the Pusan National University in South Korea.

Re-imagining the Past: Programming South Korean retrospectives at the Pusan International Film Festival, Film International, 6.4, 24–33.

Ian Aitken

Singtao Communication Centre, 224 Waterloo Rd, Rm.STC801, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Keywords Bazin, Grierson, Kracauer, Lukacs, realism

Ian Aitken is the author of Film and Reform (Routledge, 1990), The Documentary Film Movement: An Anthology (EUP, 1998), Alberto Cavalcanti (Flicks, 2001), European Film Theory and Cinema (EUP, 2001), Realist Film Theory and Cinema (MUP, 2006), and The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film (ed.) (Routledge, 2006). He is Associate Professor in Film Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, and Senior Research Fellow in Film Studies at De Montfort University.

The European realist tradition, Studies in European Cinema, 3.3, 175–188.

Physical reality: the role of the empirical in the film theory of Siegfried Kracauer, John Grierson, André Bazin and Georg Lukács, Studies in Documentary Film, 1.2, 105–122.

José Alaniz

University of Washington, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Seattle, United States of America

Keywords Sokurov, death, excess, nature, C.D. Friedrich

José Alaniz is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Comparative Literatures at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research interests include late/post-Soviet Russian literature and culture, cinema, death and dying, disability, eco-criticism and comics. He is currently writing a book on comics in Russia.

'Nature', illusion and excess in Sokurov's Mother and Son, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, 2.2, 183–204.

Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla

Keywords corporeality, dance, gesture, silence, subjectivity

Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla completed his Ph.D. dissertation in 2004 on questions of gender, sexuality and subjectivity in the Spanish and Mexican cinema of Luis Buñuel at the University of Cambridge. His research interests are in modern Spanish cultural studies and film studies, critical theory, and psychoanalytic criticism. His publications include articles on gender, visual arts and Buñuel. He spent the summer of 2005 in Paris researching the theme of Spanish economic emigration to France during the late Francoist period, and how this theme might be inscribed in Buñuel's French films.

Body, silence and movement: Pina Bausch's Café Müller in Almodóvar's Hable con ella, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 2.1, 47–.

Dominic Alessio

The American International University in London, Queens Road, Richmond-Upon-Thames, London, TW10 6JP, United Kingdom

Keywords science fiction, modernity, postcolonialism, extreme nationalism, India

Dominic Alessio is Professor of History and Director of the Study Abroad Programme at Richmond, The American International University in London. He was also a Visiting Research Fellow in the English and Media Department of the University of Northampton, UK, and formerly Vice Chair of the New Zealand Studies Association. His research interests relate to empire history, the far right, science fiction and New Zealand.

Nationalism and postcolonialism in Indian science fiction: Bollywood's Koi ... Mil Gaya (2003), New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 5.3, 217–230.

Tabea Alexa Linhard

Washington University in St. Louis, Romance Languages and Literatures, Campus Box 1077, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States of America

Keywords confession, cultural memory, gender

Tabea Alexa Linhard is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War (University of Missouri Press 2005). Recent publications include 'In the Precarious Exilic Realm: Edward Said's Andalusian Journeys', Humanism and the Global Hybrid: Reconstellating Edward Said and Jacques Derrida (eds. Assimina Karavanta and Nina Morgan, Cambridge Scholars P, 2009). 'The Maps of Nostalgia: Juana Salabert's Velodromo de invierno', Revista Hispanica Moderna, 60.1 (June 2007): 72–93 and 'Between Hospitality and Hostility: Immigration in Contemporary Spanish Culture', MLN. 122.2 (March 2007): 400–22. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript on Jewishexile in Spain during Word War II.

Unheard confessions and transatlantic connections: Y tu mamá también and Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 5.1&2, 43–56.

Samirah Alkassim

Independent

Keywords alterity, media signifier, accented cinema, installations

Samirah Alkassim is an independent researcher and filmmaker with several years experience living in Egypt and Jordan. Formerly head of the Film Program at the American University in Cairo, and Film Production Workshops Coordinator at the Royal Film Commission of Amman, Samirah currently resides in the US. Current projects include research on Ramadan television serials, and a documentary in progress about Palestinian artists in Jordan.

Cracking the monolith, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 1.3, 5–136.

Blaine Allan

Queen's University, Film and Media, 160 Stuart Street, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada

Keywords Phillip Borsos, historical approaches to film, Canadian cinema, Canadian television, film authorship

Blaine Allan teaches film at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is working on a book about the Australia-born Canadian film-maker, Phillip Borsos. His research interests include historical approaches to film, Canadian film and television and film authorship.

Matters of life and debt, Studies in Documentary Film, 2.3, 257–277.

Julie K. Allen

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Keywords Henny Porten, national identity, discursive Germanisation, 1920s, Denmark

Julie K. Allen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on the cultural phenomena of national and gender identity construction in 19th and early 20th century Denmark and Germany. Her forthcoming book, Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen: The Godparents of Danish Cultural Modernity, examines the role of celebrities and the mass media in shaping European and Danish perceptions of modern Danish national and cultural identity in the late 19th and early 20th

Where does 'die Asta' belong? The role of national identity in Asta Nielsen's German and Danish reception in the early 1920s, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 2.1, 13-26.