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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

CHRISTOPHER BARRY is a freelance film reviewer/critic/essayist specialising in drive-in film and
cult cinema. He has been published in American publications Cineguide, Shock Cinema and Screen
Magazine. His articles can also be found on www.filmfodder.com and www.men360.com. He is
also creator/publisher/editor/writer for the website www.skyhighpictureshow.com, which provides
reviews and essays regarding drive-in films from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

LINNIE BLAKE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan
University where she teaches film studies. She is especially interested in the politics of atrocity cinema
and trash culture. She has most recently published on film noir and the western, the American serial
killer, George A. Romero's 1970s shockers and German horror cinema.

GARRETT CHAFFIN-QUIRAY received his BA and M A from the University of Southern California
School of Cinema-Television. He has since sponsored film festivals, taught television and cinema
history and published book, movie, video and event reviews, several scholarly essays and book
chapters, and one short story in 'The Subway Chronicles'. He now lives in New York City researching
various subjects and writing fiction.

JENNIFER FAY is Assistant Professor and Co-director of Film Studies in the English Department
at Michigan State University. She has an article forthcoming in Cinema Journal and is completing a
book on film and democratic pedagogy in American-occupied Germany.

BENJAMIN HALLIGAN lectures in Film in York St John College, University of Leeds. His
critical biography of Michael Reeves was published by Manchester University Press in their British
Filmmakers series in 2003.

I. Q. HUNTER is Head of Film Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester. He is co-editor of
Routledge's British Popular Cinema series, for which he edited British Science Fiction Cinema (1999)
and British Spy Cinema (forthcoming). Among his other publications are the co-edited books Pulping
Fictions (1996), Trash Aesthetics (1997) and Retrovisions (2001). His recent work has focused on Paul
Verhoeven, British exploitation cinema and Hammer's science fiction and fantasy films, on which he
is writing a book.

LEON HUNT is Senior Lecturer in Film and T V Studies at Brunei University. He is the author of
British Low Culture: From Safari Suits to Sexploitation (1998) and KungFu Cult Masters: From Bruce
Lee to Crouching Tiger (2003).