Public Space, Media Space

CHRIS BERRY is the professor of Film and Television Studies in the Department of Media and Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London. His academic research is grounded in work on Chinese cinema and other Chinese screen-based media, as well as neighboring countries. His primary publications include: Cinema and the National: China on Screen (with Mary Farquhar, Columbia University Press and Hong Kong University Press, 2006); Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: the Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution (New York: Routledge, 2004); The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record (edited with Lu Xinyu and Lisa Rofel, Hong Kong University Press, 2010);), Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and Social Space (edited with Kim Soyoung and Lynn Spigel, University of Minnesota Press, 2010); Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia: What a Difference a Region Makes (edited with Nicola Liscutin and Jonathan D. Mackintosh, Hong Kong University Press, 2009); TV China (edited with Ying Zhu Indiana University Press, 2008); Chinese Films in Focus II (British Film Institute, 2008); and Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After (edited with Feii Lu Hong Kong University Press, 2005).

JANET HARBORD is a professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of several books on film and philosophies of screen technologies in the digital age including Chris Marker: La Jetee (Afterall Books & MIT, 2009), The Evolution of Film: Rethinking Film Studies, (Polity Press, 2007) and Film Cultures, (Sage, 2002) and editor of Temporalities: autobiography and everyday life, (with J. Campbell, Manchester University Press, 2002) and Psycho-politics (Taylor and Francis, 1998).

RACHEL MOORE is a lecturer in International Media at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is the author of (nostalgia) (Afterall/MIT Press, 2006), Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic (Duke, 2000), as well as articles on Patrick Keiller (LUXonline), James Benning, and Kenneth Anger (Afterall).