Popular Culture Review Vol. 11, No. 1, February 2000 | Page 159

Contributors
Sheri Chinen Biesen is a Student-Recommended Lecturer at University of
California, University of Texas, and USC School of Cinema-Television and author
of The Hard-Boiled Homefront: Film Noir and World War II, Temple U.R 2000;
“Censorship, Film Noir and Double Indemnity,” Film & History 1995; and “Raising
Cain with the Censors Again: The Postman Always Rings Twice,” Literature/Film
Quarterly 2000.
Jack Bushnell teaches and writes about the constructions of science and technology
as they appear in technical and professional venues, as well as in popular media
such as comic books and advertising. He is particularly interested in the ways
science becomes an autobiographical enterprise. His third children’s book will be
published in 1999.

Nicola Dibben is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of
Music, University of Sheffield, UK. As well as a number of publications on music
and culture - in particular, contemporary, popular music and the social construction
of gender - she has published on the perception of atonal music and the relationship
between music analysis and cognition.

Wheeler Winston Dixon is the Chairperson of the Film Studies Program at the
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the Editor of the Cultural Studies in Cinema
Video Series from State University of New York Press. He is the author of more
than fifty articles on film theory, history and criticism. His latest book is The
Transparency o f Spectacle: Mediations on the Moving Image (SUNY UP).

David J. Lambkin is a Canadian who is currently a doctoral candidate in Speech
Communication at Louisiana State University and an Instructor at Louisiana Tech
University. His academic background includes both an M.A. and a B.A. in English
Language and Literature. Current research involves the rhetorical construction of
masculinity.

Karen Lynch teaches literature at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia)
and has previously taught in the area of Women’s Studies. She has recently been
awarded her doctoral thesis on “Female Gothic and Feminist Detective Fiction:
Narrative Repetitions.” Her recent research interests include poststructuralist
feminist theory, spatial theory and the writing and reading of genre fic ѥ