Reconstruction 7.3 (2007)
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Editor
Bennett Huffman was Insect Program Coordinator for the Oregon Department of Agriculture's Portland Field Office. He was an associate editor and Film and Television Domain editor for Reconstruction since its inception to his passing. Huffman holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Liverpool. His essays were published in Organization & Environment, Oregon Quarterly, and Modern Drama, among other places. [introduction] [obit]
Contributors
tyler lorey adams has degrees in Biology and Political Science, and is currently working on a Doctorate in English at Denver University. Tyler has presented papers at professional conferences, and had essays published in Culture and State and Cultural Life of Capital Punishment, among others. [essay]
Alan Clinton is the author of Mechanical Occult: Automatism, Modernism, and the Specter of Politics (Peter Lang: 2004) and has an essay on connections between the historical avant-garde, Classic Hollywood, and automatism forthcoming in a collection on the Exquisite Corpse to be published by University of Nebraska Press. [review]
Todd Comer is an Assistant Professor of English at Defiance College. He is currently writing a book provisionally titled, Mourning, and the Day After: Contemporary Fiction and Film, in which he argues for postmodern subjectivity as essentially riven by mourning. Additionally, Mourning traces the ethical limits of the subject - its presumption of beneficence, its diversity - and its metaphysical cousins (community, city, nation, and Humanism) and argues for a postmodern subjectivity that is essentially communal. He has published two essays from this project - on Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren (The Journal of Narrative Theory; Summer 2005) and Joel and Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski (SubStance; Fall 2005). Two additional essays, "The Disabled Hero: The Ethics of the Wound in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings," and "The Plurality of Vision in Peter Weir's Witness" are under review. Todd is currently writing essays on Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, and on the anti-fascist dialogue that is enacted between the works of Alan Moore and Thomas Pynchon. [essay]
Anthony Enns is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Iowa. His work has appeared in such journals as Culture, Theory & Critique, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Popular Culture Review, Studies in Popular Culture, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He is also co-editor of the anthology Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability (University Press of America, 2001). [essay]
Martin Flanagan is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Bolton, in the North West of England. His doctoral thesis (Sheffield) concerned the cinematic relevance of the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, concentrating on issues of genre, narrative, and spectatorship; an article applying Bakhtinian ideas to action film aesthetics appeared in the collection Action and Adventure Cinema (Routledge 2004). He has explored dimensions of film authorship in articles on Robert Rodriguez and Terrence Malick, and developed the notion of the "blockbuster auteur" in an essay concerning Ang Lee's Hulk (2003), published in the New Review of Film and Television Studies (2:1, 2004). Articles exploring textual and thematic issues in comic book adaptations (including Spiderman [2002] and V for Vendetta [2006]) are due to be published in 2007. He has also extended a long-standing interest in Westerns in work exploring female-driven entries in that genre, focusing on Ron Howard's The Missing (2003) and its relationship with The Searchers (1956); this piece appears in the collection Women Willing to Fight (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007). [essay]
Cheryl Greene is a Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. She received her PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics from Arizona State University in May 2005 with a concentration in Visual Rhetoric. Her research focuses on transnational feminist documentaries, migration studies, and media and propaganda. She has entries in The Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture (Greenwood Publishers, 2004), and has an article "Power Coffees, Silence(s) and Other Speech Acts of Female Power," in Women and Language. With Zachary Waggoner she co-wrote, "Meditations on Brutality and Digital Violence," for Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life. And her work has also appeared in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy. [essay]
Anton Karl Kozlovic (MEd, MEdStudies, MA, PhD [forthcoming]) researches screen studies at Flinders University. He is interested in the fields of religion-and-film, interreligious dialogue, DeMille studies, computer films, popular culture, and the new age. He has published over eighty papers in forty different journals in ten different countries including the recent publications: "The Holy Cinema: Christianity, the Bible and Popular Films" in Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review, "The Old Story Teller as a John the Baptist-figure in DeMille's Samson and Delilah" in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (2006), "Making a 'Bad' Woman Wicked: The Devilish Construction of Delilah within Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949)" in McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry (2006) and "Seven Logical Consequences of Interreligious Dialoguing" in M. Taher (Ed.), Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives (2006). He is currently writing two books, A Human Communication Approach to Interreligious, Intrareligious and Interideological Dialogue and "Behold His Mighty Hand!" The Biblical Cinema of Cecil B. DeMille: A Pop Culture Approach to Religious Education. He lives in Adelaide, Australia. [review]
Marc Ouellette teaches Cultural and Gender Studies at McMaster University. His most recent publication, which appears in UNIversitas (Fall 2006) considers the depictions of masculinities in NYPD: Blue. Earlier works appear in Arachne, TEXT Technology, and Reconstruction. Forthcoming papers include a look at the Lebowski cult and an examination of "discursive littering." Ouellette is a member of Post Identity's review board, and is managing editor of Reconstruction. [essay]
Markus Rheindorf holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and is currently a research fellow at the University of Vienna where he also teaches classes in media studies and discourse analysis. He was Junior Fellow at the IFK (International Research Centre for Cultural Studies) in Vienna and at the ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis) at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are largely transdisciplinary and include contemporary American literature, systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis, general semiotics, film theory, and cultural studies. He has participated in research projects on student's academic writing and the visual rhetoric of election campaigns, but has always maintained an interest in the study of popular culture. His most recent project is a discourse-historical survey of early film theory, focusing on the contextual articulation of film theoretical concepts with socio-political projects between 1920 and 1960. [essay]
Zach Saltz is an undergraduate student at Concordia University, Portland, where he is majoring in History. He is particularly interested in European cinema of the 1950s and 60s, and is currently preparing a thesis exploring post-WWII American cultural hegemony in France and its impact writ large on the silver screen, as well as in its perpetuation of anti-American "culture wars" within Andre Malraux's Ministry of Culture. He has written on Weimar cinema, the New Wave, and the films of Louis Malle. [essay]
Deborah Shaw is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Portsmouth University. Her research areas are Latin American Cinema, representing Latin Americans, Latinos in Hollywood film and Latin American women's writing, and she has published numerous articles in this field. She has also published Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Ten Key Films (Continuum, 2003) and is editor of the book Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Breaking into the Global Market (Rowman and Littlefield 2007). [essay]
D. Bruno Starrs holds Masters degrees from Bond University and the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a published novelist and playwright, presently working toward a PhD on auteurism and the films of Rolf de Heer at the Queensland University of Technology. [review essay]
Mike Taormina graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the Honors College of the University of Oregon in June, 2006. His Thesis is entitled "Leidenfrost Ratchets". [essay]
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