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Richard Allen is chair professor of film and media art and dean of the School of Creative Media at City University, Hong Kong. He has published widely on film theory, aesthetics, and poetics. His book, Bombay Cinema’s Islamicate Histories, edited with Ira Bhaskar, will be published by Intellect and Orient Blackswan early next year. He recently curated the exhibition Art Machines: Past and Present at City University exhibition gallery (catalogue: City University Press).

Roy Anker is professor emeritus of English at Calvin University. His most recent book is Beautiful Light: Religious Meaning in Film (2017).

Jamie Chambers is a lecturer in film and television at Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh). Alongside his research into the global possibilities of a folk cinema he is an award-winning film director, having made a series of films about community folk cultures in Scotland including When the Song Dies (2013) and Blackbird (2014). He is the founder and curator of the Folk Film Gathering (folkfilmgathering.com), the world’s first film festival of folk cinema.

Paul Cooke is centenary chair of world cinemas at the University of Leeds and has published widely on the cultural politics of contemporary film. He is currently the Principal Investigator on Changing the Story: Building Civil Society with and for Young People in Post Conflict Settings, a project looking at the ways in which heritage and arts organizations can help young people to shape civil society in post-conflict countries. He is also co-lead of “Community Engagement for AMR” at the University of Leeds, a project that seeks to use participatory practices to unlock community-level knowledge in order to overcome antimicrobial resistance, one of the largest public health issues we face as a planet. He has also run numerous advocacy-focused participatory video projects, working with communities in the United Kingdom, Germany, Kenya, Nepal, Cambodia, India, and Colombia.

Jared Del Rosso is an associate professor in the department of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver. He researches and teaches on denial, with a specific focus on the collective denial of torture. His work in this area has been published in Social Forces, Sociological Forum, and Social Problems. He also published a book on the denial of torture, Talking About Torture: How Political Discourse Shapes the Debate, with Columbia University Press. He is currently writing a new book on the sociology of denial, which is under contract with New York University Press.

John Nguyet Erni is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Chair Professor of Cultural Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong. He is an elected fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, and an elected corresponding fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2017–2018, Erni served as president of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. A recipient of the Gustafson, Rockefeller, Lincoln, and Annenberg research fellowships, and many other awards and grants, Erni’s wide-ranging work traverses international and Asia-based cultural studies, human rights legal criticism, Chinese consumption of transnational culture, gender and sexuality in media culture, youth consumption culture in Hong Kong and Asia, cultural politics of race/ethnicity/migration, and critical public health. He is the author or editor of 9 academic titles, most recently Law and Cultural Studies: A Critical Rearticulation of Human Rights (2019), and Visuality, Emotions, and Minority Culture: Feeling Ethnic (2017).

Ann Hardy is a senior lecturer in the screen and media studies Program at Waikato University, Hamilton, whose research explores how intersections between media, religion, and culture are creating new identities in contemporary New Zealand. From 2016 to 2019 Hardy was an investigator on the Royal Society’s Marsden Fund Project Te Maurea Whiritoi: the sky as a cultural resource - Māori astronomy, ritual and ecological knowledge, outputs from which included curating a section of the Te Whaanau Maarama (Family of Light) exhibition on the recent resurgence of the indigenous celebrations of the rising of the Matariki constellation in winter. She also has an interest in audiences for popular culture and was one of four authors of the 2017 volume Fans, Blockbusterization and the Transformation of Cinematic Desire: Global Receptions of the Hobbit Film Trilogy (Palgrave Macmillan).

Mette Hjort is chair professor of humanities and dean of arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, affiliate professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Washington, and visiting professor of cultural industries at the University of South Wales. Hjort holds an honorary doctorate in transnational cinema studies from the University of Aalborg and has served on the board of the Danish Film Institute (appointed by the Danish Ministry of Culture). Her current research focuses on moving images as they relate to public value in the context of health and well-being.

Pietari Kääpä is a reader in media and communications at University of Warwick. He is a specialist in environmental screen media, focusing especially on environmental media production, policies, practices, and content (especially film and television). He has published widely in the field, including Environmental Management of the Media (Routledge 2018) and Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas (Bloomsbury 2014). He also works on media industry studies, especially in relation to Nordic film and television. Publications include The Politics of Nordsploitation (with Tommy Gustafsson, Bloomsbury 2021) and Nordic Genre Film (with Tommy Gustafsson, Edinburgh University Press 2015). He is an editor of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema and a docent (affiliate professor) in film and television studies at the University of Helsinki. He is principal investigator (with Hunter Vaughan) of the AHRC Network on Global Green Media Production (https://globalgreenmedianetwork. com/).

Paisley Livingston (BA, philosophy, Stanford University, PhD The Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University) is professor emeritus of philosophy at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He taught previously at the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, and McGill University. He has published various papers and books in aesthetics, including Art and Intention (Oxford University Press 2005), “History of the Ontology of Art” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy), and Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman (Oxford University Press 2009).

Anne Ahn Lund is co-founder of Jordnær Creative and Nordic Eco Media Alliance (NEMA). She is teaching creative sustainability in the Nordic countries, has trained production assistants and runners in sustainable practices, and has presented recommendations directly to the Danish Minister of Culture. Lund is a filmmaker and has taught film production practices at University of Copenhagen and The Royal Academy of Fine Arts. She holds an MA in film studies with a focus on embodied aesthetics.

Josefine Madsen founded Jordnær Creative in 2017 to fight for climate action and social justice in the creative industries. She has put the climate footprint of the cultural sector on the Danish public agenda with appearances and press coverage in national radio as well as news media. Madsen is also a co-founding member of Nordic Eco Media Alliance (NEMA). She holds a BA and an MA in film and media studies from the University of Copenhagen, and specialized in sustainable film and TV production as the first Danish student to do so. Furthermore, Madsen has worked with documentaries and film financing.

Ruth McElroy is professor of creative industries and faculty head of research at the University of South Wales. She is co-director with professor Lisa Lewis of the Centre for the Study of Media and Culture in Small Nations. In public life, McElroy is chair of Ffilm Cymru Wales and a member of Ofcom’s Advisory Committee Wales. She helps inform media policy through her membership of the Institute of Welsh Affair’s Media Policy Group. McElroy’s main research interests are in film and TV studies, media policy and cultural identity with a particular interest in minority-language media.

Dooley Murphy is an audiovisual media researcher poised to receive his PhD from the University of Copenhagen, Department of Communication. His recently-completed doctoral thesis addresses the form and function of interactive virtual reality (VR) artworks from a cognitive–analytic perspective, with a particular focus on manifestations of narrative. He has published on video game player and VR participant experience, the structure and process of audiovisual narration, and design strategies in interactive storytelling. His next avenue of research will likely be avatars, characters, and virtual embodiment. In his spare time, he likes to make media art about the wonderful mundanity of technology and culture.

Ted Nannicelli teaches at the University of Queensland. His most recent books are Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Truth in Visual Media: Aesthetics, Ethics Politics (co-edited with Marguerite La Caze, Edinburgh University Press, 2021). He is the editor of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind.

Dr. Caitriona Noonan is senior lecturer in media and communication in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University. She is an active researcher in the areas of film and television production, creative labor, and cultural policy. She is co-author of the book Producing British Television Drama Local Production in a Global Era (2019) with Ruth McElroy. More information about her research is available at smallnationsscreen.org.

Tom O’Regan was a key figure in the development of cultural and media studies in Australia. His major works include Australian Television Culture (1993), Australian National Cinema (1996), The Film Studio: Film Production in the Global Economy (2005, with Ben Goldsmith), Local Hollywood: Global Film Production and the Gold Coast (2010, with Ben Goldsmith and Susan Ward), and Rating the Audience: The Business of Media (2011, with Mark Balnaves and Ben Goldsmith). He co-founded Continuum: Journal for Media & Cultural Studies and edited it between 1987 and 1994. In addition to his prolific and influential research output, Professor O’Regan held a series of key leadership roles throughout his career. He was director of the Centre for Research in Culture and Communication from 1996 to 1998 at Murdoch University and Director of the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy at Griffith University from 1999 to 2002. He was Australia’s UNESCO professor of communication from 2001 to 2003 and elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2002.

Glenn Parsons is an associate professor of philosophy at Ryerson University in Toronto. His interests include aesthetics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of science. His book Aesthetics and Nature (Bloomsbury 2008) is currently being revised for a new edition.

Dr. Karen Pearlman is a senior lecturer in screen practice and production at Macquarie University and the author of Cutting Rhythms (Focal Press 2016). Her research into creative practice, distributed cognition, and feminist film histories has produced a number of published articles and chapters, and three award winning short films about Soviet women filmmakers in the 1920s and the 1930s. The third of this trilogy, I want to make a film about women (2019), the case study for the chapter in this volume, was long-listed for an Oscar, short-listed for an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, and has won three best directing awards (from the Australian Directors’ Guild, Women in Film and Television Australia, and Cinéfest Oz), along with 10 other nationally competitive awards.

Carl Plantinga is Arthur H. De Kruyter chair of communication at Calvin University. His two latest books are Alternative Realities (2020) and Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement (2018). He is also co-editor of Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion (1999) and The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film (2009). He is former president of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI).

Anna Potter is an associate professor of creative industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She is a researcher focusing on children’s screen production cultures and distribution networks, media industries, and communication policy. She is the author of Creativity, Culture, and Commerce: Producing Australian Children’s Television with Public Value (Intellect 2015), Producing Children’s Television in the On-Demand Age (Intellect 2020) and multiple journal articles and book chapters.Potter is chief investigator (with Amanda Lotz and Kevin Sanson) on the Australian Research Council Discovery project (2021–2023) “Making Australian Television in the 21st Century.” This project investigates the intertwined implications of non-Australian ownership, technological adjustments, policy changes, and support adjustments enacted since the mid-2000s that have challenged the making of “Australian” television.

Willemien Sanders is a lecturer at the department of media and culture studies and an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University. She also conducts research at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Her research interests include, but are not limited to, documentary film and non-fiction, film and television production, and digital humanities/data studies with a focus on questions of ethics, production cultures, and gender. She is currently a co-chair of the Media Production Analysis Working Group of International Association for Media and Communication Research. She is also an avid traveler.

Kaia Scott holds a PhD in film and moving image studies from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Her dissertation, Picturing the Damaged Mind: Film and Techniques of Visualization in the Modernization of World War II Military Psychiatry is a critical history of the role of media in the modernization of the United States military’s psychiatry program during World War II. She specializes in institutional visual culture and is a contributing author to Cinema’s Military Industrial Complex.

Khatereh Sheibani is a scholar, author, and curator of Iranian cinema and Persian literature and culture. She has established multiple courses in Persian studies (language, literature, and culture) at York University, where she is working as a lecturer. Sheibani completed her doctorate degree in comparative literature and film studies at the University of Alberta, Canada in 2007. Her book entitled The Poetics of Iranian Cinema: Aesthetics, Modernity, and Film after the Revolution was published in November 2011 by I. B. Tauris, United Kingdom. She has co-edited a special issue of Iran Namag on Abbas Kiarostami (University of Toronto Press 2018). Sheibani has written articles on modern Persian literature, Iranian cinema and Middle Eastern cinemas in literary and film anthologies and journals, such as Iranian Studies and Canadian Journal of Film Studies. She is collaborating with Iran Namag for a special issue on radio to be published in 2022. She has written two novels (in Persian) so far. The first novel titled Hotel Iran will be published in 2021 by Nashr-e Ameh in Tehran. Her second novel, Blue Bird Café is going to be published in Europe in 2021. Sheibani was consulted and interviewed on issues regarding Iranian cinema by broadcasting services and journals such as CBC, PRI, and the New York Times. She is currently working on a book-length project on gender representation in Iranian cinema.

Dr. Meryl Shriver-Rice is a media anthropologist and environmental archaeologist, and director of environmental media at the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami. She developed and teaches for the Master’s of Environment, Media, and Culture program and is a founding editor (with Hunter Vaughan) of the Journal of Environmental Media (Intellect Press).

Robert Sinnerbrink is associate professor of philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of New Philosophies of Film (Second Edition): An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking (Bloomsbury 2021), Terrence Malick: Filmmaker and Philosopher (Bloomsbury 2019), Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film (Routledge 2016), New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images (Continuum/Bloomsbury 2011), and Understanding Hegelianism (Acumen 2007, Routledge 2014). He has edited two books (Emotion, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience (Berghahn Books 2021) and Critique Today (Brill 2006)), and is a member of the editorial boards of Film-Philosophy, Film and Philosophy, and Projections: The Journal of Movies and Mind.

Professor Jane Stadler holds an honorary appointment in film and media studies at The University of Queensland, Australia. She led a collaborative Australian Research Council project on landscape and location in Australian cinema, literature, and theater (2011–2014) and co-authored Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives (2016). She is author of Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film, and Ethics (2008) and co-author of Screen Media (2009) and Media and Society (2016). Her philosophically informed screen media research focuses on ethics, aesthetics, and the audience’s affective responses, drawing on phenomenological and cognitivist approaches.

Professor John Sutton works in the philosophy of mind, cognition, and action, in cognitive psychology, and in the interdisciplinary cognitive humanities. His main research topics are autobiographical and collaborative memory, embodied memory and skilled movement, distributed cognition, and cognitive history. He is a member of the ARC College of Experts, 2019–2021; Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities; and was first President (2017–2019) of the the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Books and edited collections by Sutton include: Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to connectionism (Cambridge University Press 2007) and Johnson, Sutton, & Tribble (Eds.), Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Early Modern Body-Mind. (Routledge 2014).

Dr. C. Claire Thomson is professor of cinema history and director of the MA in film studies at UCL (University College London). She is the author of Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen (Nordic Film Classics, University of Washington Press 2013) and Short Films from a Small Nation: Danish Informational Cinema 1935–1965 (Edinburgh University Press 2018), editor of Northern Constellations: New Readings in Nordic Cinema (Norvik 2006), co-editor of A History of Danish Cinema (Edinburgh University Press 2021), and Transnational Media Histories of the Nordic Model (Palgrave 2023). Her research interests include documentary and public information film, short films, unrealized films, and the cinema of Carl Theodor Dreyer.

Dr. Pia Tikka is a professional filmmaker and EU Mobilitas Pluss research professor at the Baltic Film, Media, and Arts School, Tallinn University. She holds the honorary title of adjunct professor of new narrative media at the University of Lapland, and is a former director of Crucible Studio, department of media, Aalto University (2014–2017). She acted as a main investigator of neurocinematics in the research project aivoAALTO at the Aalto University (2010–2014) and founded her NeuroCine research group to study the neural basis of storytelling. She has published widely on the topics of enactive media, narrative complex systems, and neurocinematics. Her filmography includes international film productions as well as two feature films and interactive films she has directed. She is a fellow of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and a member of the European Film Academy. Currently, she leads her Enactive Virtuality Lab associated with the MEDIT Centre of Excellence, Tallinn University.

Dr. Hunter Vaughan is a research fellow at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge. Dr. Vaughan is the author of Where Film Meets Philosophy (Columbia University Press 2013) and co-editor (with Tom Conley) of the Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory (Anthem Books: London 2018, 2020). His most recent book, Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: the Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies (Columbia University Press 2019) offers an environmental counter-narrative to the history of mainstream film culture and explores the environmental ramifications of the recent transition to digital technologies and practices. He was a 2017 Rachel Carson Center Fellow and is a founding editor of the Journal of Environmental Media (Intellect Press). He is currently Principal Investigator, with Pietari Kääpä, on the AHRC-funded Global Green Media Network, and is also Principal Investigator with Anne Pasek, Nicole Starosielski, and Anjali Sugadev on the Internet Society Foundation’s Sustainability and the Subsea Telecommunication Cable Network project.