The Institutionalization of Educational Cinema

Marina Dahlquist is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University. She is editor of Exploring Perilous Pauline: Pearl White and the Serial Film Craze and co-editor (with Doron Galili, Jan Olsson, and Valentine Robert) of Corporeality in Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form (IUP, 2018).



Joel Frykholm is Research Associate at Stockholm University, Department of Media Studies, Section for Cinema Studies. He is author of George Kleine and American Cinema: The Movie Business and Film Culture in the Silent Era.



Oliver Gaycken is Associate Professor of English and a core faculty member of the Film Studies and Comparative Literature Programs at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author of Devices of Curiosity: Early Cinema and Popular Science.



Frank Kessler is Professor of Media History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands and Director of the Research Institute for Cultural Inquiry. He is co-editor (with Sarah Dellmann) of A Million Pictures (IUP, 2018), author of Mise en scene, and co-editor (with Nanna Vergoeff) of Networks of Entertainment (IUP, 2008).



Sabine Lenk is Researcher in the Belgian Excellence of Science project "B-Magic. The Magic Lantern and Its Cultural Impact as Visual Mass Medium in Belgium, (1830-1940)" at Antwerp University and Universite libre de Bruxelles. She is author of Vom Tanzsaal zum Filmtheater. Eine Kinogeschichte Duessedorfs.



Jan Olsson is Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University. He is co-editor (with Marina Dahlquist, Doron Galili, and Valentine Robert) of Corporeality in Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form (IUP, 2018), author of Hitchcock a la Carte, and co-editor (with Kingsley Bolton) of Media, Popular Culture, and the American Century (IUP, 2011).



Floris Paalman is Senior Lecturer of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and a staff member of the Master's Programs in Film Studies and in the Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image. He is author of Cinematic Rotterdam: The Times and Tides of a Modern City.



Tom Rice is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is author of White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan (IUP, 2016).



Katy Peplin holds a Ph.D. in Screen Arts and Cultures from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on non-fiction film.



Gregory A. Waller is Provost Professor and Director of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University. He is author of Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930 and editor of Film History.



Zoe Druick is Professor of Communication and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Simon Fraser University. She is author of Projecting Canada: Government Policy and Documentary Film at the National Film Board and The Grierson Effect: Tracing Documentary's International Movement.