Steve Chibnall - British Crime Cinema

Charlotte Brunsdon teaches in the Department of Film and Television Studies at Warwick University. She is the author of Screen Tastes (Routledge, 1977) and co-editor of Feminist Television Criticism (Oxford University Press, 1997).

Viv Chadder is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She is currently researching in the area of Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural forms, particularly the performing voice.

Steve Chibnall is co-ordinator of the British Cinema and Television Research Group at De Montfort University, Leicester. His first book, Law and Order News (Tavistock) was published in 1977 and he has written widely for journals, edited collections and popular magazines. Recent work includes articles on Brighton Rock, Basil Deardens youth problem films, British SF movies and showmanship in film exhibition. His book Making Mischief on the cult films of Pete Walker was published in 1998 and he is currently editing a collection on the British horror film and writing a book on J.Lee Thompson.

Andrew Clay is currently completing a PhD on the British crime film at De Montfort University and writing a book on Lewis Gilbert. He has contributed to the Journal of Popular British Cinema and Moving Performance: British stage and screen, 1890s-1920s.

John Hill is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Ulster. He is the author of Sex, Class and Realism: British Cinema 195663 (BFI, 1986) and British Cinema in the 1980s (Oxford University Press, 1999) and editor of The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (Oxford University Press, 1998). Leon Hunt is a lecturer in Film and TV Studies at Brunel University. He is the author of British Low Culture: From Safari Suits to Sexploitation (Routledge 1998), and has also contributed to Velvet Light Trap, Necronomicon and You Tarzan: Masculinity, Movies and Men.

Brian McFarlane is an Associate Professor in the English Department of Monash University, Melbourne. His latest books are