Maimunah

United Kingdom

Keywords Arisan!, non-normative sexualities, hetero-normativity, Detik Terakhir, Tentang Dia.

Maimunah is a lecturer in Faculty of Humanities, Airlangga University, Surabaya-Indonesia. This article is part of her thesis (master by research) at the University of Sydney (2008). She teaches Film and Literature and Southeast Asian Literature.

Indonesian Queer and the Centrality of Heteronormative Family, Asian Cinema, 21.2, 114–134.

Richard Abel

University of Michigan, Department of Screen Arts & Cultures, 6419 North Quad, 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109–1285, United States of America

Keywords early American cinema, Americanization, French silent cinema

Richard Abel is Robert Altman Collegiate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures at the University of Michigan. His latest book, Americanizing the Movies and 'Movie-Mad' Audiences, 1910 –1914 (California), was published in 2006. Forthcoming books include Early Cinema and the 'National', co-edited with Giorgio Bertellini and Rob King (John Libbey), and Menus for Movie Land: Newspapers and the Movies, 1911–1915.

Frame Stories for Writing the History of French Silent Cinema, Studies in French Cinema, 2.1, 5–13.

Anders Wilhelm Aberg

Institutionen för språk och litteratur, Linnéuniversitetet, 351 95 Växjö, Sweden

Keywords Swedish cinema, Vilgot Sjöman, televised fiction, Swedish children's films

Anders Wilhelm Åberg is an Associate Professor in Film Studies at Linnaeus University of Kalmar/Växjö. He has published a book on the Swedish film-maker Vilgot Sjöman and articles on televised fiction, film criticism and, more recently, on Swedish children's films.

Art is born on the border of taboo: Vilgot Sjöman in Hollywood, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 1.2, 159–162.

May Adadol Ingawanij

University of Westminster, Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), London, United Kingdom

Keywords Thai cinema, cosmopolitanism, world cinema, cinephilia, ultra-modern

May Adadol Ingawanij joined CREAM after completing her Ph.D. at the London Consortium, University of London (with Prof. Laura Mulvey). Her thesis, 'Hyperbolic Heritage: Bourgeois Spectatorship and Contemporary Thai Cinema', traces the relationship between cinematic spectacle, royalism, and the Thai bourgeois fantasy of attaining global prestige by displaying 'world-class Thainess'. The research has been published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (2007), South East Asia Research (2006), and Representing the Rural (2006). May is one of the organisers of the Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas conference, the main forum of intellectual exchange concerning the region's cinemas held on a rotating basis in each of its countries. With Benjamin McKay she is editing the first volume of critical writings on the independent cinemas of the region.

Blissfully whose? Jungle pleasures, ultra-modernist cinema and the cosmopolitan Thai auteur, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 4.1, 37–54.

John Adams

University of Bristol, Department of Drama (Theatre, Film, Television), Cantocks Close, Bristol, BS8 1UP, UK

Keywords screen media, practice research, creative industries, documentation

John Adams is emeritus professor of Film & Screen Media Practice in the School of Arts (Drama) at the University of Bristol, where he taught for many years. He has produced and/or directed over 30 broadcast films and theatre productions, and co-founded and has chaired the Watershed Media Centre (Bristol) and the production company Watershed Television Ltd. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Media Practice, a member of the Higher Education Funding Council media and communications panel for the RAE 2008. He writes and lectures on practice-based approaches to screen media teaching and research. His current interests include film and creative industries policy, space and place in film, and screen acting and performance.

Book Reviews, Film International, 3.13, 50–51.

Adewole Adejayan

University of Ibadan, UI, Oyo State, Ibadan, Oyo State, P O Box 21156, Nigeria

Keywords soccer, fandom, Nollywood, cultural passage, Nigeria, Thierry Henry

Adewole Adejayan is a postgraduate student of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His current research explores the intersection between religion and African politics.

Thierry Henry as Igwe: Soccer fandom, christening and cultural passage in Nollywood, Journal of African Cinemas, 3.1, 25–42.

Mara Adelman

Seattle University, Department of Communication, 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, United States of America

Keywords social support systems, AIDS, communication, community development

Mara Adelman (Ph.D., University of Washington) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Seattle University. Her research is on social support systems and AIDS; communication and community development; intercultural communication; cross-cultural adaptation/expatriation; service industry and interpersonal communication; communication networks and restorative solitude. Dr Adelman is a co-author on four books and her research has been published in Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Journal of Health Communication and Journal of Marriage and the Family, among others.

Looking for Love in All the White Places: A Study of Skin Color Preferences on Indian Matrimonial and Mate-Seeking Websites, Studies in South Asian Film & Media, 1.1, 65–83.

Gbemisola Adeoti

Obafemi Awolowo University, Department of English, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Keywords governance, Nigeria, theatre, video, Yoruba

Gbemisola Adeoti (Ph.D.) is lecturer in the English Department of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. His areas of teaching and research include Dramatic Literature, Poetry, Literary History/Theory and Popular Culture. He is the author of Naked Soles, co-editor (with Bjorn Beckman) of Intellectuals and African Development and editor of Muse and Mimesis: Critical Perspectives on Ahmed Yerima's Drama. He was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the School of English, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, from October to December 2008. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the African Humanities Program organized by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

Home video films and the democratic imperative in contemporary Nigeria, Journal of African Cinemas, 1.1, 35–56.

Gunhild Agger

Aalborg Universitet, Department of Culture and Global Studies, Kroghstraede 3, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark

Keywords Swedish and Danish TV crime fiction, best-seller, blockbuster, The Killing, emotion, gender and genre

Gunhild Agger, D. Phil, is Professor at Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. Agger has been the director of a cross-disciplinary research programme 'Crime Fiction and Crime Journalism in Scandinavia', funded by the Danish Research Council for Culture and Communication (cf....