Penn Film & Media Pioneers
Symposium Participants
C. Edwin Baker is the Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor at the Penn Law School and a First Amendment scholar. Since the early 1990s, he has concentrated on media policy. In that field, he has written numerous articles and two books: Media, Markets, and Democracy, which won the 2002 annual McGannon Communications Policy Research Award, and Advertising and a Democratic Press.
Karen Beckman is the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Endowed Assistant Professor in Film Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film and Feminism, co-editor of Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography (forthcoming) and is currently working on a book about cinematic car crashes
Rebecca Bushnell is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. A professor of English, she is a scholar of early modern English literature, culture and history as well as an expert on the literary genre of tragedy. Her most recent books are Green Desire, a study of early modern English gardening books, and A Companion to Tragedy (editor).
Michael Chaiken is Program Director for Film at International House in Philadelphia. He is editor of Arthur Penn: Interviews and co-editor of Be Sand, Not Oil: The Uncollected Writings of Amos Vogel.
Timothy Corrigan is Professor of Cinema Studies and English, and Director of the Cinema Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of New German Cinema, A Cinema Without Walls, and The Film Experience, among other books.
Peter Decherney is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American and is at work on a new book on copyright law and Hollywood.
Douglas Gomery is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Maryland and resident scholar at the Library of American Broadcasting. He is author of 17 books, including the forthcoming A History of Broadcasting in the United States.
Paul Messaris is the Lev Kuleshov Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. In his Audio-Visual Communication Laboratory, he has been exploring the relationship between feature-length film production, scholarly theory and academic research. Currently, he is studying the incorporation of high-definition digital video into the production and creation of special effects.
Katherine Sender Katherine Sender is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Business, Not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market and a new article, “Queens for a Day: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and the Neoliberal Project,” as well as many other articles on GLBT media and marketing. She is also the producer, director and editor of a number of documentaries, including Off the Straight and Narrow: Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Television.