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popular culture, in journals such as Cinema Journal and Signs, andinvarious
anthologies. She is currently writing a book on high-profile, disruptive
girls in 20th/21st century popular culture.
Alexandra Seibel is a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University
and is currently teaching film at the University of Vienna. Her main
areas of research include representations of the city of Vienna in international
filmmaking from 1920 to 1950, teen films and youth culture, and feminist
film and video practice. Her publications include ‘‘A Topography of Excess:
Visions of Vienna in Erich von Stroheim’s The Wedding March (1928),’’
in Reverberations: Representations of Modernity, Tradition and Cultural
Value in-between Central Europe and North America (2002), and ‘‘Carnival
of Repression: German Left Wing Politics and The Lost Honor of Katharina
Blum,’’ in Film and Literature (2004).
Timothy Shary is Associate Professor and Director of the Screen Studies
Program at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he teaches
courses on film and television. He is the author of numerous articles on teen
films, including two books, Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in
Contemporary American Cinema (2002) and Teen Films: American Youth
on Screen (2005). His commentary has appeared in over 30 newspapers
and magazines around the world, and in 2004 he was named Outstanding
Teacher of the Year at Clark University and given the Distinguished Alumni
Award by Ohio University.
Stephen Tropiano is the founding director of the Ithaca College Communications
Program in Los Angeles, where he teaches courses in film and television
studies. He is the author of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays
and Lesbians on Television (2002) and Rebels and Chicks: A History of the
Hollywood Teen Movie (2006). Stephen contributes a bi-monthly column for
the Web site PopMatters entitled, ‘‘The Prime Time Closet,’’ which addresses
issues on contemporary queer representation on television. He is currently
editor of the Journal of Film and Video, the oldest film journal in the United
States.
Mary M. Wiles published an essay on Rivette’s film adaptation of Debussy’s
Pelléas et Mélisande in the anthology Between Opera and Cinema (2002).
Other publications include ‘‘French Folie: Memory and Madness in Bunuel’s
Belle de Jour,’’ in Paroles Gelées: UCLA French Studies, and an essay on Luc
Besson’s La Femme Nikita in the journal Post Identity. Her future projects
include a book that traces the figure of the coming-of-age girl in contemporary
international cinema. She has published an essay on the construction
of lesbian subjectivity and the coming-of-age girl in Dorothy Allison’s
Bastard Out of Carolina and she is currently working on an essay on Julie
Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, in which the coming-of-age narrative of girlhood
overlaps with themes of race and nationalism. This piece will be included
in a forthcoming anthology titled On the Fringe and in the Center:
Women and Avant-Garde Filmmaking 1920–2000.