Contributors
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Murray Leeder
Murray Leeder’s research interests include silent cinema, film genre with a focus on horror, film history and theory, and issues of ghosts and haunting. Murray’s published works include Halloween (Auteur Press, 2014) and the upcoming Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era (Bloomsbury, 2015).
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George Lellis
George Lellis, Professor Emeritus of Communication at Coker University, will be familiar to Offscreen readers for his articles with Hans-Bernhard Moeller on the work of Volker Schlöndorff. His most recent publication has been a piece for Millennium Film Journal on Gardens of Negotiation, a video installation by Miroslaw Rogala.
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David Lemieux
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Elaine Lennon
Elaine Lennon is a film historian and the author of ChinaTowne and Pathways of Desire: Emotional Architecture in the Films of Nancy Meyers. Elaine Lennon obtained a PhD in Film Studies at the School of Media, Dublin Institute of Technology where she lectured in film and screenwriting for a decade.
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Mike LeSuer
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Mathieu Li-Goyette
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Jason Lindop
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Sean Lindsay
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Teresa Lobos
Teresa Lobos has a masters in Film Studies from Concordia University and is an avid consumer of horror and gothic cinema. She lives and writes in Montreal in a crumbling, haunted mansion filled with books and guarded by two demon cats. She also really likes ice cream.
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Maya Lussier-Seguin
Maya was born in Quebec in 1986 and is a graduate from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (Concordia University, Montreal) where she was introduced to documentary filmmaking by such inspirational directors as Martin Duckworth, Michael Snow and Pierre Falardeau. After completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2010, Maya moved to Paris, where she began her career as a production assistant with “What’s Up Films”. In 2014, she chose to focus on her creative career and participate in the production of historical documentaries of international scope for PBS: D-day’s Sunken Secrets, directed by Doug Hamilton and the six hour documentary series: The Great War, by Stephen Ives, which explores the American force’s role in WWI. Maya is also a dedicated swimmer of over 25 years and has met senior swimmers through her competitive career, which inspired her to make her first documentary film Swim for Life (Troisième nage). In 2015, she was selected by the Fondation de France to be the recipient of the Salavin-Fournier grant for young artists.
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Daniel Lynds
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Alessandra M. Pires
Alessandra M. Pires is Assistant Professor in French and Portuguese at Missouri State University. She holds a doctorate in Romance Languages from the University of Georgia and a D.E.A. in European Literatures and Cultures from the Université de Nice, France. Her current research addresses mourning and loss in French Quebec cinema as well as the notion of abjection in the works of Portuguese painter Paula Rego. Her research interests are the interface between Francophone and Luso-Brazilian literature and the visual arts, French and Quebec cinema, and psychoanalysis. She has co-edited and published a bilingual interdisciplinary book Images of Madness / Imagens da Loucura in 2010.
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Henry M. Taylor
Henry M. Taylor (*1965), Dr.phil., Research Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Zurich. He is the author of a book on biographical films (Rolle des Lebens. Die Filmbiographie als narratives System, Marburg: Schueren Verlag, 2002), and on Franco-Argentinian filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky (Der Krieg eines Einzelnen. Eine filmische Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte, Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 1995). Numerous lectures at the Universities of Konstanz (Germany), Zurich, and Lucerne (Switzerland). His current research deals with conspiracy culture and the paranoid thriller in film and television.
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Heather Macdougall
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James MacDowell
James MacDowell is the founder of the film review and criticism website Alternatetakes.co.uk, a site that attempts to bridge the gap between ‘high’ academic and ‘low’ journalistic film writing. He is a graduate of the University of Warwick, currently researching for his masters thesis on the Hollywood romance happy ending. His favourite filmmakers include Paul Thomas Anderson, Atom Egoyan, Lars Von Trier, Gus Van Sant and Spike Lee. He lives and works in Dublin.
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Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr.
Dr. Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr. is an Associate Professor of Composition and Communication at SUNY Cobleskill in Upstate New York. He had written multiple book reviews, encyclopedia entries, and essays for a variety of journals, magazines, and books since 2006. He loves to read, watch movies, read, travel, and read.
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Kieran Macnamara
Kieran Macnamara is a musician and film editor who lives in Montreal. He has studied Literature, Cultural Studies and Music Theory at McGill University and screenwriting at a New York University exchange course held at University College Dublin. He has a Diplôme d’études professionnelles in Photography from Dawson College and graduated from Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema with a B.A. in Film Production in 2010.
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Ryan Madson
Ryan Madson is a writer, urban planner, and professor of architecture at the Savannah College of Art & Design. He writes about art, cities and environments, and their intersections with futurity. His essays have been published in CLOT Magazine, Medium, Satellite, Sound of Life, Strelka Mag, and as chapters in books published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Mazyar Mahdavifar
Mazyar Mahdavifar is a California-based writer, journalist, and media producer. He is currently pursuing his MA degree in Film Studies at Chapman University. His academic interests include feminist film theory, national cinemas, and cinema of the Middle East.
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Tanya Maheshwari
Tanya Maheshwari is an MA student at Ambedkar University and is based out of Delhi. She is interested in suburban imageries and landscapes, media ecologies, and working class representations/materialist perspectives in film.
