Contributors
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Jason Mark Scott
Jason Mark Scott is a book seller and cinephile from the UK with a particular interest in the 1960s New Wave cinema of France, Italy, and England. Previous writing has appeared in Offscreen, Bright Lights Film Journal, and Senses of Cinema.
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Jeremy Maron
Jeremy Maron is a Researcher-Curator at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Canada. He holds a PhD in Cultural Mediations from Carleton University, where he wrote his dissertation on the treatment of the Holocaust in Canadian cinema. While not his primary academic interest, horror has always been Dr. Maron’s preferred film genre, stemming in part from his mother’s permission to allow him and his friends to watch Child’s Play at his 12th birthday party.
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Xavier Martinez
Xavier Martinez is a writer and filmmaker based in Montreal. His writing has been published in Scarlet Leaf Review, ZEAL and The McGill Daily. His photography has been published in The Sunlight Press and Scrivener Creative Review.
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Nicola Marzano
Nicola Marzano was born in Naples, Italy. He is currently working as a Film Sales Co-ordinator for a film and TV company in Dublin. After obtaining his B.A. in Law at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), he recently received his M.A. in Film & Television from Dublin City University (Ireland) with a final dissertation on European cinema and its problems of film distribution beyond national borders. Last year he started a website and podcast discussing mainstream and art house cinema.
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Brian D. McKenna
Brian D. McKenna was born in Ottawa in 1975, some 2 hours and 20 minutes before the earth-orbit docking of Apollo and Soyuz. He grew up in the former European Union countries of Scotland and England before settling in Western Canada in the mid-1980’s. He received a multidisciplinary BFA in visual-art and music from the University of Lethbridge and an MFA in visual-art from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Since 2002 he lives and works in Amsterdam as an independent audiovisual artist and his work is presented internationally. McKenna works part-time as an instructor and researcher of media-technology at the Sandberg Institute and more recently is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam.
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Justine McLellan
Justine T. McLellan is a teacher of Cinema and Communications at Dawson College. She produced the second season of “The Oldest Profession”, a podcast about the history of sex workers. Her research interests include feminist interpretations of pornography, the representation of marginalized sexualities, and the sex worker’s rights movement.
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Jurij Meden
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Max Mehran
Max received his Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in June 2016. His research interests focused on the relationship between our social behaviors and the stories told in film, television, and other media. He is now completing a Master of Arts in Film Studies at Concordia University, expected graduation in 2020. He is a horror-buff in his downtime and researches queer representation in cinema academically. Max also works for local theatre non-profit groups and has been an actor for a few years. He can be seen in local and national plays, films, and television shows.
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Zach Melzer
Zach Melzer is currently enrolled as a PhD student at the Concordia University Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Film and Moving Image Studies. Melzer’s interests include modernity, cultural materialism, and the history of moving image media. His current research focuses on understanding the social, economic, and cultural factors that inform the dynamics of screen technologies found in public spaces.
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Kathryn Michalski
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Maude Michaud
Maude Michaud recently obtained her Master’s degree in Media Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. Her thesis project “Horror Grrrls: Resistance and Agency within the Interpretive Community of Women Horror Filmmakers” included a documentary webseries titled Bloody Breasts as well as a written component which analyzed and compared the obtained data while also situating the women in horror movement. Her research interests include fan culture, gender studies, representation of sexuality in the media, television studies and horror cinema. She also works as a filmmaker and photographer.
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Alice Michaud-Lapointe
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Lise Millay Stevens
Lise Millay Stevens is a freelance writer based in New York City. Daughter of a father-writer and mother-humanitarian, she was raised in New York, Boston, Martha’s Vineyard, Barcelona (Spain) and Cleveland in the company of writers, artists and other gypsy/libertine types. She pursued film, theater, literature and language studies at Ohio University and Cleveland State University, where she received her Master’s of Arts in 1989. A film buff who was encouraged at an early age to stay up late and watch classics, she has worked with the Chicago Filmmakers, a group of independent filmmakers in the heart of Chicago, and currently chases down actors, directors, producers, writers and composers at film festivals to get a good story. She is a medical writer to pay her huge NYC rent.
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Miaad Minooie
Miaad Minooie completed his M.A. in Film Studies at Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.
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Hans-Bernhard Moeller
Hans-Bernhard Moeller, associate professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and George Lellis, professor of communication at Coker College, are authors of Volker Schlöndorff’s Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the “Movie-Appropriate” (Southern Illinois University Press, 2002). Both have recently contributed essays to Straight through the Heart: Doris Dörrie, German Filmmaker and Author (Scarecrow Press, 2004), edited by Franz A. Birgel and Klaus Phillips and Film Quarterly (“The Ninth Day.” 59(2005-06): 51-55. Their “Heroes without Compromise: An Interview with Volker Schlöndorff, “ appeared in Journal of Film and Video 58(2006): 43-53.
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N Malavika Mohan
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Mitra Moin
Mitra Moin graduated with distinction from Concordia University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in 2016. Born and raised in Washington, D.C. by a French mother and an Iranian father, she attended the French International School until 2013, where she took cinema classes. She has interned at various renowned news organization such as WAMU/NPR at The Diane Rehm Show, and the Washington Report, where several of her articles were published. She hopes to work in broadcast journalism in the future.
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Tamas Molnar
Tamas Molnar is currently completing an MA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, Montreal. He holds a Graduate Diploma and a BA in Media Studies from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research interests include the relationship between media texts and the lived experiences of built environments; the links between visual aesthetics and the spectatorial gaze in environmental communication and the social and cultural aspects of media piracy in the pre-internet age. In his free time Tamas makes stop motion animation films, goes cycling or climbs mountains.
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Felix Monguilot Benzal
Felix Monguilot Benzal is a Spanish Art Historian with a specialization in cinema, education and 20th Century art. He completed his Ph.D program at the University of Murcia, Spain in 2015. For several years, Monguilot had been working for institutions in the Italian art world, both as researcher and art project coordinator. He has published and presented widely in a number of different countries and at a variety of institutions. He also received several fellowships and awards, including the Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (2012-2013).
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Isabelle Morissette
