Reconstruction 8.3 (2008)
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Editors
Adam Ganz studied at Cambridge and Bristol Universities and the National Film and Television School. He is a lecturer in Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written a number of screenplays for different production companies including the BBC, Granada, Redwave Films, Kismet films, APT Films, and IWC Media for Channel 4. He has directed a number of short films, which have been shown at festivals around the world. He has also worked as a script consultant for a number of companies including Complicité and Working Title. His research interests lie in screenwriting, narrative and digital cinema. [introduction]
Contributors
Chiara Armentano will present her Ph.D. Thesis entitled "Postmodern Elements in American Horror Film: Cultural and Textual Forms of Mutation (1968–1998)" at the University of Bologna (Film Studies Department), where she also teaches classes in media studies and contemporary cinema. She spent a period at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to complete her research. She has written about David Lynch's filmography regarding between Expressionism and Postmodern Fiction. Her interests are interdisciplinary and include new media studies, contemporary cinema, postmodernism, film theory and cognitive film analysis. Her next project examines the problems of "convergence" between film and new media. [article]
Marshall Deutelbaum is Professor Emeritus of English at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He is co-editor with Leland Poague of the revised edition of A Hitchcock Reader forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell. In addition to Hitchcock Studies, his primary research interest is in the visual logic of film narrative. [article]
Ashley Holmes is a researcher and Senior Lecturer at Central Queensland University, Australia. He pursues an interest in social computing and enhanced computer-mediated corporeal experience through visual art practice, exhibition and academic publishing. Recent undergraduate teaching program developments include studies of interactivity in online social media and a foundational illustration and visualization course. Prior to gaining a PhD in studio-based visual practice Ashley gained twenty year's experience in multi media communications as a creative director. [article]
Stewart McKie is a PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has a M.A. Screenwriting from Bournemouth University and writes for Scriptwriter magazine. Stewart hopes his interest in screenplay analysis and visualization will help him and others to write better screenplays.
Ingrida Povidiša is a PhD candidate at the University Bayreuth, Germany. Her research subject is forensics, especially anthropological forensics in the popular culture with the particular aspects of science rhetoric, visual culture and conceptions of body, and the working title of the thesis is "The Pathology of the Gaze/Glance" (Die Pathologie des Blickes). [article]
Peter Robinson is a British photojournalist. Born in 1944, he was educated in Leicestershire and has a Master's degree from The Royal College of Art in London. Over a 40-year career he became one of the world's leading sports photographers. He retired in 2008. [article]
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