Contributors
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Paul Corupe
Paul Corupe is a Toronto-based writer and editor, and the creator of Canadian film website Canuxploitation!
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Alexei Perry Cox
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Matthew Creith
Matthew Creith is a film & TV Critic, contributing to IN Magazine, Edge Media Network, and Matinee With Matt. He is a proud member of the Critics Choice Association, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ+ Entertainment Critics, and Hollywood Critics Association.
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Michael Crochetière
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Joshua Crosby
Joshua Crosby studies film production at Concordia University, working primarily in sound design with a special appreciation for sound in horror.
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Olivia Curry
Olivia Curry is an undergraduate film studies student at Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, guest editor/contributor to Offscreen and one-time conspiracy theory listicle writer. Her research interests include reflexivity and structure in horror, reality television and experimental film.
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Roberto Curti
Roberto Curti is an Italian film critic and film historian who lives in Cortona, Italy and has written many books on Italian cinema, with a focus on Popular cinemas. He’s a regular contributor to Nocturno and has collaborated, among others, to the Spanish mag Quatermass. In 2003 he co-wrote (with Tommaso La Selva) Sex and Violence, a volume on extreme cinema, which is in its second edition, 2007, and in 2004 a Spanish-published monography on James Coburn, El samurai del oeste (The Samurai of the West). He is also the author of Italia odia (Italy Hates, 2006), an in-depth history of Italian crime and noir films, and Stanley Kubrick: Rapina a mano armata (Stanley Kubrick: The Killing, 2007), an in-depth analysis of Kubrick’s The Killing, Demoni e dei, a book on the devil and god in American horror cinema, and Fantasmi D’Amore, a book on the Italian gothic across cinema, literature and television. Since then he has published many books in English on Italian cinema for McFarland Press, including Italian Crime Filmography 1968-1980 (2013); Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema (2016), Tonino Valeri: The Films (2016), Mavericks of Italian Cinema: Eight Unorthodox Filmmakers, 1940s-2000s (2018); Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker (2017), and a trilogy of volumes on Italian Gothic Horror Films (1957-1969; 1970-1979; 1980-1989) in 2015, 2017, 2019 respectively. He has also written the monograph on Blood and Black Lace in the Devil’s Advocates series for Auteur Publishing (2019).
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Pascal D
Pascal Déry is a BFA (2009 – with Distinction) at Concordia University, with a Major in Film Studies. Formerly a talk radio personality on XM Satellite Radio, Pascal currently performs podcasting and teaches martial arts at his own karate school in Longueuil, Qc (South shore of Montréal). Mr. Déry also strongly believes that being a Decepticon is cooler than being an Autobot.
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Antonio D’Alfonso
Poet, novelist, essayist, translator, Antonio D’Alfonso has published more than 40 book titles and has directed three feature films. He is the founder of Guernica Editions which he kept alive for thirty-three years before passing it on in 2010. He is also co-founder of the magazine Vice Versa and the Association of Italian-Canadian Writers. For his writing D’Alfonso has won the Trillium Award, the Bressani Award, and other prizes; and for his film Bruco (2005), he won two awards at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
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Parvathy Das
Parvathy Das is a research scholar in the National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India. Though her core area of research is intersex and gender studies, she has also presented papers in numerous national and international seminars on areas like Australian studies and Dalit studies.
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Graham Daseler
Graham Daseler is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in Film and Digital Media. He currently reside in Los Angeles, and works as a film editor and animator. His writing has previously been published in The Times Literary Supplement, The Lost Angeles Review of Books, The Moving Arts Film Journal, Film International, 34th Parallel Magazine, Senses of Cinema, Bright Lights Film Journal, and Offscreen.
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Diya Dekhar-Powell
Diya Dekhar-Powell is a fourth-year student at Concordia University, Montreal, completing a Hons B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Film Studies. Although she was born and raised in London, Diya’s French-Algerian and Jamaican roots have led her to develop a keen interest in social/racial commentaries on contemporary society. As well as examining these themes through literature and film, Diya also explores notions of existentialism through poetry and scriptwriting.
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Peter Dellolio
Born in NYC 1956. Raised in Bensonhurst Brooklyn and Little Italy New York. Went to Nazareth Regional High School; graduated 1974. New York University graduate 1978; B. A. & B.F.A. Directed many short subject 16mm films, including adaptation of James Joyce short story “Counterparts.” Published poetry, fiction, short plays, and film criticism in KINEMA, AURA Literary Arts Review, Cross-Cultural Communications, The Midwest Quarterly, Literature/Film Quarterly, Dramatika, Bogus Review, Flickhead, Mascara Review, NYArts Magazine, Both Sides Now, and many others. Taught arts and language skills at LEAP. Exhibited paintings at Leonora Vega and 8th Floor galleries. His book of poetry, “A Box of Crazy Toys” was published earlier this year by Xenosbooks/Chelsea Editions. Artist website linked below.
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Tim Deschaumes
Tim Deschaumes received his MA in philology and English literature from The University of Antwerp and his MA in Communication Science from the University of Ghent. He taught film aesthetics at the Flemish Service for Film Culture. His interests include Japanese cinema, new wave cinemas, film style and film emotion. He is very passionate about Yasujirō Ozu. Tim’s work appeared on Photogénie, Cinea and in De Geus. Together with Ive Verdoodt he’s building Cafelumière.be, a website born out of the urge to celebrate eminently cinematic moments. The title refers to Hou-hsiao Hsien’s homage to Ozu.
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Pierre-Alexandre Despatis
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Ryan Diduck
Ryan Alexander Diduck is an independent scholar and author. Along with Offscreen, his writing appears in Fact Magazine,, The Quietus, and The Wire. Diduck’s latest book is called Mad Skills: MIDI and Music Technology in the Twentieth Century. He lives in Montreal.
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Roberto Donati
Roberto Donati (from Arezzo, Italy) graduated in Modern Literature and Film Studies from the University of Siena in Italy, and also studied in the UK (The University of Warwick). Donati’s first publication was a book on the theme of nostalgia in the films of Sergio Leone (Sergio Leone. America e nostalgia, Falsopiano 2005), and he is in the process of writing his second book (on Douglas Sirk). As a professional journalist, he has written for publishing houses, newspapers, journals, and magazines on culture, film and literary topics. Donati has worked in the film industry in Los Angeles and is developing screenplays and documentary projects for television and cinema. As Demon #2, he greatly enjoyed slaughtering Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni in Dario Argento’s The Third Mother. He is a freaky blogger.
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Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Gönül Dönmez-Colin is film scholar and author of several books on cinema. including Women, Islam and Cinema, Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging and The Routledge Dictionary of Turkish Cinema. Her latest monograph, Women as Images and as Image-makers in the Cinemas of Iran and Turkey is forthcoming from Routledge.
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Ben Dooley
Ben Dooley has a First Class Degree in Film and Literature from the University of Essex and is currently taking a Masters in Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London. His undergraduate dissertation was on Jim Jarmusch. He also has specific interest in the auteurs of ‘Golden Age’ Hollywood: John Ford, Nicholas Ray, Douglas Sirk, Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock, as well as the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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Olivier Dorais
