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CONTRIBUTORS
Djoymi Baker is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Melbourne, Australia,
where she teaches in the Cinema Studies program. She works for Australian network
tele\ ision as a f(M)tage librarian, researcher and producer's assistant.
.Steven C'arfer is Professor of l:nglish at California State University, Bakersfield.
His Iatest book. A Do It Yoursclj Dystopia: The A m ericanization o f Big Brother,
was released by University Press of America in 2000. UPA will publish his fourth
book. Expecting the Barbarians a nd O ther Essays, in June 2001. In 2000 he won
the coveted Nuove Lettere International Poetry and Literature Prize awarded by
the Instituto Italiano di Cultura di Napoli.
Wheeler Winston Dixon is Ryan Professor of Film Studies, and Chairperson of
the Film Studies Program at The University of Nebraska. His most recent book is
The S econd Century o f Cinema (State University of New York Press, 2000).
James H. Forse is a professor of History and Theatre at Bowling Green State
University.
Kate Harts teaches high school English in Phoenix, Arizona and is also a graduate
student working towards an illusive Ph.D. in English/Education at ASU. She counts
her marriage, her daughter Meagan, and her certification from the National Board
of Professional Teaching Standards as her proudest accomplishments.
Cyndy Hendershot is Assistant Professor of English at Arkansas State University.
She is the author of The A n im a l Within: M asculinity a nd the G othic (University of
Michigan Press, 1998). Her most recent book is Paranoia, The Bomb, a nd 195 0s
Science-F iction Films (Popular Press, 1999). She is currently working on a study
of anti-Communist propaganda in 1950’s America.
Caroline Oates joined the University of Sheffield’s Management School as a
lecturer in marketing in 1997. She holds a first degree in Sociology and Social
Policy from the University of Sheffield and a Ph.D. from the Department of
Sociological Studies, also at Sheffield. Her teaching and research interests include
marketing promotions and communication, research methods, children and
advertising, and the consumption of popular culture. Her publications include
articles on the role of market information in the design process, qualitative research
methods, and women’s magazines.