Contributors
Angela Dalle Vacche is Professor Emerita at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her areas of inquiry are the historiography of classical film theory, history in film, cinema and painting, colour in film, the museum film, film and science, and early cinema and women. She has published numerous articles and written several books, including The Body in The Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema (1992); Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film (1996); Diva: Defiance and Passion: Italian Women and Early Cinema (2008). Her latest book is Andre Bazin’s Film Theory: Art, Science, Religion (2020). Bo Florin is Professor of Cinema Studies at the Department for Media Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. Publications include: Moderna motiv, Mauritz Stiller i retrospektiv (ed, 2001); Regi: Victor Sjöström/Directed by Victor Seastrom (2003); Transition and Transformation: Victor Sjöström in Hollywood 1924-1930 (2013) and (together with Patrick Vonderau) A Tale from Constantinople. The History of a Film that Never Was (2019).
Eirik Frisvold Hanssen is a research librarian in the Department of Collections and Research at the National Library of Norway. He has a PhD in Cinema Studies from Stockholm University (2006) and is the co-editor of Adaptation Studies: New Challenges, New Directions (2013, with Jørgen Bruhn and Anne Gjelsvik) and Small Country, Long Journeys: Norwegian Expedition Films (2017, with Maria Fosheim Lund). Thor Holt is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo, and was a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley in 2021–22 with a research project on Ibsen in Weimar cinema. Holt earned his PhD in 2020 with a dissertation on Ibsen adaptations in Nazi cinema. He is currently revising the dissertation and working on the interconnections between Ibsen and German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Rob King is a professor of Film and Media Studies at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He is the author of Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture (2017) and the award-winning The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture (2009). He is currently working on a monograph on adult filmmaker Radley Metzger and an edited collection on mystery writer Cornell Woolrich.
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