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Hanno Hardt is John F.Murray Professor of Journalism and Mass
Communication at the University of Iowa and Professor of Communication
at the University of Ljubljana. His most recent book projects include
Critical Communication Studies: Communication, History and Theory in
America (Routledge, 1992) and Newsworkers: Towards a History of the
Rank and File, co-edited with Bonnie Brennen, and to be published by the
University of Minnesota Press.
Dick Hebdige is Dean of Critical Studies at the Californian Institute of the
Arts in Los Angeles. He is the author of Subculture: The Meaning of Style
(1979), Cut ‘n’ Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music (1987) and
Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things (1988).
Isaac Julien is a film director and theorist who is a visiting professor of
History of Consciences at Santa Cruz University, as well as a Rockefeller
Humanities Scholar at the NYU Center for Media Culture and History.
His films include Looking for Langston (1989), Young Soul Rebels (1991),
The Attendant (1993) and Finding Fanon (1995).
Jorge Larrain is Professor of Social Theory in the Department of Cultural
Studies at the University of Birmingham. He was head of department from
1988 to 1993 and has published several books on the theory of ideology. His
most recent contribution is Ideology and Cultural Identity: Modernity and
the Third World Presence (1994).
Angela McRobbie is Reader in Sociology at Loughborough University of
Technology and is the author of Postmodernism and Popular Culture
(Routledge, 1994) and of Fashion and the Image Industries (Routledge,
forthcoming).
Kobena Mercer is an independent writer and critic based in London.
Formerly Assistant Professor in the Art History and History of
Consciousness programmes at University of California, Santa Cruz, he has
lectured and published widely on the cultural politics of race and sexuality
in visual culture and is the author of Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions
in Black Cultural Studies (Routledge, 1994).
David Morley is Reader in Communications at Goldsmiths’ College,
London University and is the author of Television, Audiences and Cultural
Studies (Routledge, 1992) and (with Kevin Robins) Spaces of Identity:
Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries (Routledge,
1995).
Mark Nash was one-time editor of Screen and is currently collaborating
with Isaac Julien on a film on Frantz Fanon. He is also working on a book
on queer theory and cinema for the British Film Institute.