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Rachel Barraclough is a PhD student in the School of Media at The University of Lincoln and formally an Undergraduate and Postgraduate student at the Bradford Media School in The University of Bradford. Her research is concerned with Deleuzian and phenomenological reconceptualizations of Japanese horror genre.
Rebecca Bartlett is a final year PhD student at the University of Glasgow. Her thesis examines the characteristics of cult badfilm of the 1950s and 1960s. Her interests include cult film, counter-culture, fandom, science fiction, horror and Werner Herzog. In her spare time, she is also a freelance film journalist.
Daniel Biltereyst is Professor in Film and Media Studies at the Communication Studies Department at Ghent University, in addition to being Director of the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (CIMS). His work deals with media and the public sphere, more specifically with film and screen culture as sites of controversy, public debate and moral/media panic. He is the editor of various volumes, including Explorations in New Cinema History (with R. Maltby and Ph. Meers, 2011), Silencing Cinema (with R. Vande Winkel, 2013), and Moralizing Cinema (with D. Treveri Gennari, 2015).
Etienne Boumans studied law, European law, and criminology. He was Administrator of European Parliament’s Human Rights Unit (1984-1993) and Head of European Parliament’s committee secretariat on culture and education (2004-2007). He has published articles on European policies, human rights, and cultural issues. At present, he is an independent scholar, working on (popular) culture related topics. He was appointed by the Government of Flanders as Member of Evaluation committee on national cultural heritage organisations, and is a member of IAMHIST, PCA/ACA, ICOM, SHAFR, SHARP cultural organisations and The Historical Association (UK).
Lee Broughton is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Leeds. His current research focuses on the representations of “North” and “South” found in Italian Westerns. He is the designer and convenor of the Level 2 module ‘Psychotronic Cinemas: the Cult Movie World Wide’.
Kate Egan is a Lecturer in Film Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK. She is the author of Trash or Treasure?: Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties (2007) and The Evil Dead (2011), and co-editor (with Sarah Thomas) of Cult Film Stardom (2012). She is currently working (with Martin Barker, Tom Phillips and Sarah Ralph) on the book Alien Audiences: Understanding the Pleasures of Ridley Scott’s Film (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
Ekky Imanjaya is a PhD candidate at Art, Media, and American Studies, University of East Anglia. He is also faculty member at Film Department, BINUS INTERNATIONAL, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta. He has published articles in journals, including Jump Cut, Asian Cinema, Cinematheque Quarterly, Wacana, and Cinemaya. He has recently guest edited a special issue entitled “The Bad, The Worse, and The Worst: The Significance of Indonesian Cult, Exploitation, and B Movies” for Plaridel : A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society.
Steve Jones teaches at Northumbria University and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media. He is also leader of the degree programme, Media, Culture and Society. He is the author of Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw (2013 and co-edited Zombies and Sexuality: Essays on Desire and the Living Dead (2014).
Lorenzo Mari holds a PhD in Postcolonial Literature from the University of Bologna. His research interests are in African postcolonial literature, in a tight interdisciplinary relationship with Film Studies. In 2011 he was awarded the 1st AISCLI Postgraduate Essay Prize for his essay “Chaos as a Matter of Frame: Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down (2001) and Nuruddin Farah’s Links (2004)”.
Dave McCaig is a Senior Lecturer in Media Theory at The University of Lincoln where he co-ordinates and teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate classes on the BA Media Production, BA Film and Television Studies and MA Culture Studies programmes. His research is currently focused on East Asian Cinemas, in particular popular forms within South Korea and Japan.
Mark McKenna is a Lecturer in Digital Media at Glyndwr University, North Wales. He is currently editing a book about global media censorship with John Mercer (Birmingham City) and Oliver Carter (Birmingham City) and has forthcoming chapters in Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Ben Murtagh is Senior Lecturer in Indonesian and Malay at SOAS, University of London. His main research interests are in the fields of Indonesian film and literature with a particular focus on genders and sexualities. His book, Genders and Sexualities in Indonesian Cinema: constructing gay, lesbi and waria identities on screen was published by Routledge in 2013.
Emma Pett is Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project ‘Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s’ based at UCL. She recently completed her PhD, an AHRC-funded collaborative project with the BBFC on audiences of Asian Extreme cinema. Emma has published in New Review of Film and Television Studies, Participations and has forthcoming chapters in Media, Margins and Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Controversies: Histories and Debates in Film Controversy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Steven Rawle is a senior lecturer in film and television production at York St John University. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on cult Japanese cinema, especially the work of Miike Takashi. His writing has appeared in Film Criticism, the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, and the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema. Currently, he’s working on a book on Transnational Cinema and an editing collection on the collaboration between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann.
Adrian Smith is currently studying for a PhD in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. His principal research interests are in the British film industry of the 1960s. He has written extensively on film distribution, exhibition and censorship in this period. He is currently focusing upon the distribution and exhibition of international film in British cinemas.
Iain Robert Smith is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Roehampton, London. He is author of Hollywood Meme (EUP, 2015) and editor of Cultural Borrowings (Scope, 2009). He is co-investigator on the AHRC funded research network Media Across Borders and co-chair of the SCMS Transnational Cinemas Scholarly Interest Group.
Vibhushan Subba is currently pursuing doctoral research from the Department of Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi. The focus of his research is the production, distribution and circulation of Indian Paracinema. His MPhil dissertation, entitled ‘Fear and Loathing: Kanti Shah and the Cinema of Secrets’, looked at Indian Paracinema, with a special focus on the work of Kanti Shah.
Sarah Thomas is Lecturer in Film Studies at Aberystwyth University. She is author of Peter Lorre – Facemaker: Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe (Berghahn Books, 2012), co-editor (with Kate Egan) of Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), and is currently working on a volume for BFI Palgrave’s Film Star series on James Mason.
Laura Treglia received her PhD in Gender Studies and MA in Japanese Studies from SOAS, University of London. Her doctoral thesis and current research interests focus on genre cinema, gender, sexuality, violence and representation, 1970s feminisms and countercultural movements. She has been teaching at the University of Chester and is currently working on various projects, including articles submitted to Asian Ethnology (under review), and chapters in forthcoming books, including Pornographies: Critical Positions (University of Chester Press) and A Companion to the Gangster Film (Wiley Blackwell).
Lies Van de Vijver is a visiting professor Film Historiography (Antwerp University) and a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (Ghent University). She is working on various research projects on the history of screen culture, film programming and cinema experience in Flanders. She frequently co-organizes conferences on media history research and she published in several international journals and readers on the history of screen culture in Ghent and Flanders. She is currently working on contemporary cinemagoing habits in a post-moviegoing era and the sociality and eventfulness of cinema culture today.
Jonathan Wroot teaches Film Studies classes at the University of Worcester. His PhD thesis investigates the distribution and marketing of Japanese films on DVD in the UK. His findings are due to be published in 2015 in several journals, following papers presented at in Bournemouth, Coventry, London, Manchester and St Andrews.
Rebecca Bartlett is a final year PhD student at the University of Glasgow. Her thesis examines the characteristics of cult badfilm of the 1950s and 1960s. Her interests include cult film, counter-culture, fandom, science fiction, horror and Werner Herzog. In her spare time, she is also a freelance film journalist.
Daniel Biltereyst is Professor in Film and Media Studies at the Communication Studies Department at Ghent University, in addition to being Director of the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (CIMS). His work deals with media and the public sphere, more specifically with film and screen culture as sites of controversy, public debate and moral/media panic. He is the editor of various volumes, including Explorations in New Cinema History (with R. Maltby and Ph. Meers, 2011), Silencing Cinema (with R. Vande Winkel, 2013), and Moralizing Cinema (with D. Treveri Gennari, 2015).
Etienne Boumans studied law, European law, and criminology. He was Administrator of European Parliament’s Human Rights Unit (1984-1993) and Head of European Parliament’s committee secretariat on culture and education (2004-2007). He has published articles on European policies, human rights, and cultural issues. At present, he is an independent scholar, working on (popular) culture related topics. He was appointed by the Government of Flanders as Member of Evaluation committee on national cultural heritage organisations, and is a member of IAMHIST, PCA/ACA, ICOM, SHAFR, SHARP cultural organisations and The Historical Association (UK).
Lee Broughton is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Leeds. His current research focuses on the representations of “North” and “South” found in Italian Westerns. He is the designer and convenor of the Level 2 module ‘Psychotronic Cinemas: the Cult Movie World Wide’.
Kate Egan is a Lecturer in Film Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK. She is the author of Trash or Treasure?: Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties (2007) and The Evil Dead (2011), and co-editor (with Sarah Thomas) of Cult Film Stardom (2012). She is currently working (with Martin Barker, Tom Phillips and Sarah Ralph) on the book Alien Audiences: Understanding the Pleasures of Ridley Scott’s Film (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
Ekky Imanjaya is a PhD candidate at Art, Media, and American Studies, University of East Anglia. He is also faculty member at Film Department, BINUS INTERNATIONAL, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta. He has published articles in journals, including Jump Cut, Asian Cinema, Cinematheque Quarterly, Wacana, and Cinemaya. He has recently guest edited a special issue entitled “The Bad, The Worse, and The Worst: The Significance of Indonesian Cult, Exploitation, and B Movies” for Plaridel : A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society.
Steve Jones teaches at Northumbria University and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media. He is also leader of the degree programme, Media, Culture and Society. He is the author of Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw (2013 and co-edited Zombies and Sexuality: Essays on Desire and the Living Dead (2014).
Lorenzo Mari holds a PhD in Postcolonial Literature from the University of Bologna. His research interests are in African postcolonial literature, in a tight interdisciplinary relationship with Film Studies. In 2011 he was awarded the 1st AISCLI Postgraduate Essay Prize for his essay “Chaos as a Matter of Frame: Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down (2001) and Nuruddin Farah’s Links (2004)”.
Dave McCaig is a Senior Lecturer in Media Theory at The University of Lincoln where he co-ordinates and teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate classes on the BA Media Production, BA Film and Television Studies and MA Culture Studies programmes. His research is currently focused on East Asian Cinemas, in particular popular forms within South Korea and Japan.
Mark McKenna is a Lecturer in Digital Media at Glyndwr University, North Wales. He is currently editing a book about global media censorship with John Mercer (Birmingham City) and Oliver Carter (Birmingham City) and has forthcoming chapters in Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Ben Murtagh is Senior Lecturer in Indonesian and Malay at SOAS, University of London. His main research interests are in the fields of Indonesian film and literature with a particular focus on genders and sexualities. His book, Genders and Sexualities in Indonesian Cinema: constructing gay, lesbi and waria identities on screen was published by Routledge in 2013.
Emma Pett is Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project ‘Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s’ based at UCL. She recently completed her PhD, an AHRC-funded collaborative project with the BBFC on audiences of Asian Extreme cinema. Emma has published in New Review of Film and Television Studies, Participations and has forthcoming chapters in Media, Margins and Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Controversies: Histories and Debates in Film Controversy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Steven Rawle is a senior lecturer in film and television production at York St John University. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on cult Japanese cinema, especially the work of Miike Takashi. His writing has appeared in Film Criticism, the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, and the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema. Currently, he’s working on a book on Transnational Cinema and an editing collection on the collaboration between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann.
Adrian Smith is currently studying for a PhD in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. His principal research interests are in the British film industry of the 1960s. He has written extensively on film distribution, exhibition and censorship in this period. He is currently focusing upon the distribution and exhibition of international film in British cinemas.
Iain Robert Smith is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Roehampton, London. He is author of Hollywood Meme (EUP, 2015) and editor of Cultural Borrowings (Scope, 2009). He is co-investigator on the AHRC funded research network Media Across Borders and co-chair of the SCMS Transnational Cinemas Scholarly Interest Group.
Vibhushan Subba is currently pursuing doctoral research from the Department of Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi. The focus of his research is the production, distribution and circulation of Indian Paracinema. His MPhil dissertation, entitled ‘Fear and Loathing: Kanti Shah and the Cinema of Secrets’, looked at Indian Paracinema, with a special focus on the work of Kanti Shah.
Sarah Thomas is Lecturer in Film Studies at Aberystwyth University. She is author of Peter Lorre – Facemaker: Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe (Berghahn Books, 2012), co-editor (with Kate Egan) of Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), and is currently working on a volume for BFI Palgrave’s Film Star series on James Mason.
Laura Treglia received her PhD in Gender Studies and MA in Japanese Studies from SOAS, University of London. Her doctoral thesis and current research interests focus on genre cinema, gender, sexuality, violence and representation, 1970s feminisms and countercultural movements. She has been teaching at the University of Chester and is currently working on various projects, including articles submitted to Asian Ethnology (under review), and chapters in forthcoming books, including Pornographies: Critical Positions (University of Chester Press) and A Companion to the Gangster Film (Wiley Blackwell).
Lies Van de Vijver is a visiting professor Film Historiography (Antwerp University) and a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (Ghent University). She is working on various research projects on the history of screen culture, film programming and cinema experience in Flanders. She frequently co-organizes conferences on media history research and she published in several international journals and readers on the history of screen culture in Ghent and Flanders. She is currently working on contemporary cinemagoing habits in a post-moviegoing era and the sociality and eventfulness of cinema culture today.
Jonathan Wroot teaches Film Studies classes at the University of Worcester. His PhD thesis investigates the distribution and marketing of Japanese films on DVD in the UK. His findings are due to be published in 2015 in several journals, following papers presented at in Bournemouth, Coventry, London, Manchester and St Andrews.