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DONA M. KERCHER is Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Foreign
Languages at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. She has published on a group of
Spanish writers and directors: Rosa Chacel, Alex de la Iglesia, Manuel Gutierrez Aragon, Javier Marias
and Gracia Querejeta. Currently she is working on Federico Luppi and transnational star discourse,
and on the role of Hitchcock in Hispanic film history.
MIKEL J. KOVEN lectures in Film and Television Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
His main research areas are exploitation cinema, Italian horror films, folklore and film, Jewish
representation in film, Holocaust cinema and Classical Hollywood. He is the author of the Pocket
Essentials book on Blaxploitation Films (2000) and is currently working on a book-length study of
the giallo film.

PATRICIA MACCORMACK is Lecturer in Communication at Anglia Polytechnic University,
Cambridge. She has published mainly on Italian horror, sexuality, feminism and the work of Gilles
Deleuze and Felix Guattari.

ERNEST MATHIJS is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has
written extensively on the reception of alternative and Belgian cinema (with particular topics including
David Cronenberg, Daughters of Darkness and Man Bites Dog). He is the editor of The Cinema of the
Low Countries (2004) and co-editor (with Janet Jones) of Big Brother International: Format, Critics and
Publics, forthcoming from Wallflower Press in 2004.

XAVIER MENDIK is Director of the Cult Film Archive at University College Northampton, and
general editor of the Wallflower Press book series Alter/mage. He has published widely on European
cult and exploitation cinema, and his books (as author, editor and co-editor) include Dario Argento's
Tenebrae (2000), Unruly Pleasures: The Cult Film and Its Critics (2000), Shocking Cinema of the
Seventies (2002) and Underground U.S.A.: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon (2002). He is
currently working on his sixth book: Fear Theory: Case Studies in European and American Horror
(forthcoming from Wallflower Press) and has just produced his first documentary film entitled Cabin
Fever: Fear Today, Horror Tomorrow.

TAMAO NAKAHARA is a P h D candidate at the University of California at Berkeley. O n
Nunsploitation (and related topics) she has publications forthcoming in Exploiting Fear, Horror Zone
and Kinoeye. She is also currently editing Born to be Bad: Production, Exhibition and Reception of Trash
Cinema with Jeffrey Karlsen.
COLIN ODELL and MICHELLE LE BLANC are freelance authors and film critics. They have
numerous books, including titles on David Lynch, Jackie Chan, Vampire Films, Horror Films,
John Carpenter and Tim Burton for the Pocket Essentials series. They are regular contributors
to Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association, www.kamera.co.uk and
bookmunch.co.uk.

MAGNUS PAULSS0N is the International Director of the Fantastisk Film Festival in Sweden, as
well as being a founder and board member of the event. An established journalist and filmmaker,
he has written for a variety of publications including Kvdllsposten and Magasin Defect and has also
worked on a number of projects for prominent media organisations including M T V Europe and SVT
(Swedish National Television). He is currently a producer for the Malmo-based media company Solid
Entertainment.