Contributors
Contributors
Christopher Bird is a documentary film editor who works mainly on programs for the BBC and Channel 4. He spent several years at Photoplay Productions, where he edited various films for Kevin Brownlow, including The Tramp and the Dictator and the twopart Cecil B. De Mille: American Epic. He also codirected Buster Keaton: So Funny It Hurts, I'm King Kong! and Garbo with Kevin Brownlow. Most recently, he edited the film sequences for a revival of Kenneth MacMillan's ballet Isadora for the Royal Ballet, and a feature-length documentary about the British withdrawal from Basra.
Michael S. Duffy is an adjunct faculty member at Towson University, with interests in the aesthetics of contemporary cinematic visual effects, technology and industry, and the transition from practical to digital techniques in visual effects and production. He earned a PhD in film studies from The University of Nottingham and an MA in cinema studies from New York University. He is currently coauthoring a study of how the film and media industries use stars' posthumous performances and is coediting a collection on the histories and theories of visual effects.
Eric Hoyt is a PhD student in the Critical Studies Division of the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. He is the recipient of the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Student Writing Award.
Martin L. Johnson is a doctoral candidate in cinema studies at New York University, where he researches the production and theatrical exhibition of local films in the United States from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Lindy Leong is a PhD candidate in cinema and media studies at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Her research interests lie at the intersections of moving image archival studies and film studies. She is currently serving as lecturer in cinema studies at Purchase College–SUNY.
Ross Lipman is a senior film preservationist at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, where his many restorations include Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep, Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles, the Academy Award–winning documentary The Times of Harvey Milk, and works by Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Shirley Clarke, Kenneth Anger, and John Cassavetes. He was a 2008 recipient of Anthology Film Archive's Preservation Honors, and is a two-time winner of the National Society of Film Critics' Heritage Award. His essays on film history, technology, and aesthetics have been published in numerous books and journals. Lipman is also an independent filmmaker whose works have screened internationally and been collected by museums and institutions including the Oberhausen Kurzfilm Archive, Budapest's Balazs Bela Studios, and Munich's Sammlung Goetz.
Scott MacQueen has worked for three decades in the film industry. During the 1980s he worked as an assistant director and line producer on features, television, and commercials. From 1991 to 2003, he was senior manager of film restoration for the [End Page 193] Walt Disney Company. From 2003 to 2009, he was director of restoration services at Pro-Tek Media Preservation. He has written for American Cinematographer, Cinefex, SMPTE Journal, and The Perfect Vision, and has provided DVD audio commentaries for many classic films. Mr. MacQueen was the 1997 Anthology Film Archives Preservation Honoree and received a 2001 Annie Award from ASIFA-Hollywood for Special Achievement in Animation.
Leonard Maltin is one of the world's most respected film critics and historians. His annual paperback Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide is a widely used reference work, and he has appeared on the popular television show Entertainment Tonight since 1982. He teaches at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, hosts a weekly show, Secret's Out, on ReelzChannel, and introduces movies on DirecTV. His books include Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, The Great Movie Comedians, The Disney Films, The Art of the Cinematographer, Movie Comedy Teams, The Great American Broadcast, Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide, and Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia. He served two terms as president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, is a voting member of the National Film Registry, and was appointed by the Librarian of Congress to sit on the board of directors of the National Film Preservation Foundation...
