Notes on Contributors

Dr. Stephen Goddard lectures at Deakin University in the School of Communication and Creative Arts (Melbourne).

Elena Gorfinkel is Assistant Professor of Art History & Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. She is editor, with John David Rhodes, of Taking Place: Location & the Moving Image. Her writing on film has appeared in Framework, Cineaste, World Picture, Electric Sheep, and several edited collections. 

Justine Grace is a PhD candidate in the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne. She has spent the past year based in Europe, undertaking research and observing trends in contemporary exhibitions of art cinema and video art. 

James Guida is the author of Marbles, a book of aphorisms. He grew up in Australia and is a 2011 fellow in Nonfiction Literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Shigehiko Hasumi is former President of the University of Tokyo. His many books include studies of Ozu, Ford and Renoir.

Andrew Klevan is University Lecturer in Film Studies and a Fellow of St Anne's College at the University of Oxford where he convenes the Master's Degree in Film Aesthetic. He has recently co-edited a collection entitled The Language and Style of Film Criticism (Routledge 2011) and is currently working on a book exploring the film performances of Barbara Stanwyck.

Sylvia Lawson writes history, critical journalism and fiction; her most recent books are The Outside Story, a novel on the early history of the Sydney Opera House, and How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia, a collection of stories and essays.  From the Verandah, a sequence on resistance, is due out in early 2012 from Melbourne University Publishing.

Adrian Martin is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at Monash University (Australia). He is the author of six books, including the forthcoming A Secret Cinema (re:press 2012). His regular columns appear in Cahiers du cinema. España and De Filmkrant. He is Co-Editor of LOLA and Screening the Past.

Joe McElhaney is Professor of Film Studies at Hunter College/City University of New York.  His books include The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli; Albert Maysles; and Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment.

Luc Moullet is a director, actor and critic. His most recent films are Toujours moin (2011) and Chef-d'œuvre (2010). His writings have been gathered in Piges choisies (de Griffith à Ellroy) (Capricci, 2009).

Bill Mousoulis is an Australian filmmaker now based in Greece, with about 100 films to his name, including nine features, the latest of which is Wild and Precious (2012). He founded the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group in 1985 and Senses of Cinema in 1999. He is Webmaster of LOLA.

David Phelps is a writer, translator and programmer.

Richard Porton is one of Cineaste's editors as well as an occasional contributor to Cinema Scope, The Daily Beast, and Moving Image Source.

William D. Routt does more or less what he wants in Melbourne.

Girish Shambu teaches at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, and runs a community-oriented film-blog at girish. His writings have appeared in Framework, Cineaste, Artforum.com, and the collection Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Wallflower Press, 2009). He is Co-Editor of LOLA.

Darren Tofts is a Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. He is the author of Interzone: Media Arts in Australia (Thames & Hudson, 2005).