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Acknowledgments
Celia Tin-yan Ko provided excellent research assistance during the final stages of preparing the manuscript for submission. A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value was generously supported by a research initiation grant from the Hong Kong Baptist University, for which especially Mette is grateful. Ted would like to thank the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland for funding to support the project and Madeleine Shield for completing the index. Above all else, we are indebted to all the contributors for having been so supportive all along. The global COVID-19 pandemic created countless hurdles and yet our authors remained committed to our shared project throughout. For this, we shall always be immensely grateful. Tom O’Regan, a dear friend, colleague, and scholar of great wisdom and generosity, died shortly after sending us his co-authored chapter. A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value is affectionately dedicated to his memory.
Biographical Notes
Richard Allen is chair professor of film and media art and dean of the School of Creative Media at City University, Hong Kong. He has published widely on film theory, aesthetics, and poetics. His book, Bombay Cinema’s Islamicate Histories, edited with Ira Bhaskar, will be published by Intellect and Orient Blackswan early next year. He recently curated the exhibition Art Machines: Past and Present at City University exhibition gallery (catalogue: City University Press).
Roy Anker is professor emeritus of English at Calvin University. His most recent book is Beautiful Light: Religious Meaning in Film (2017).
Jamie Chambers is a lecturer in film and television at Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh). Alongside his research into the global possibilities of a folk cinema he is an award-winning film director, having made a series of films about community folk cultures in Scotland including When the Song Dies (2013) and Blackbird (2014). He is the founder and curator of the Folk Film Gathering (folkfilmgathering.com), the world’s first film festival of folk cinema.
Paul Cooke is centenary chair of world cinemas at the University of Leeds and has published widely on the cultural politics of contemporary film. He is currently the Principal Investigator on Changing the Story: Building Civil Society with and for Young People in Post Conflict Settings, a project looking at the ways in which heritage and arts organizations can help young people to shape civil society in post-conflict countries. He is also co-lead of “Community Engagement for AMR” at the University of Leeds, a project that seeks to use participatory practices to unlock community-level knowledge in order to overcome antimicrobial resistance, one of the largest public health issues we face as a planet. He has also run numerous advocacy-focused participatory video projects, working with communities in the United Kingdom, Germany, Kenya, Nepal, Cambodia, India, and Colombia.
Jared Del Rosso is an associate professor in the department of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver. He researches and teaches on denial, with a specific focus on the collective denial of torture. His work in this area has been published in Social Forces, Sociological Forum, and Social Problems. He also published a book on the denial of torture, Talking About Torture: How Political Discourse Shapes the Debate, with Columbia University Press. He is currently writing a new book on the sociology of denial, which is under contract with New York University Press.
John Nguyet Erni is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Chair Professor of Cultural Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong. He is an elected fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, and an elected corresponding fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2017–2018, Erni served as president of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. A recipient of the Gustafson, Rockefeller, Lincoln, and Annenberg research fellowships, and many other awards and grants, Erni’s wide-ranging work traverses international and Asia-based cultural studies, human rights legal criticism, Chinese consumption of transnational culture, gender and sexuality in media culture, youth consumption culture in Hong Kong and Asia, cultural politics of race/ethnicity/migration, and critical public health. He is the author or editor of 9 academic titles, most recently Law and Cultural Studies: A Critical Rearticulation of Human Rights (2019), and Visuality, Emotions, and Minority Culture: Feeling Ethnic (2017).
Ann Hardy is a senior lecturer in the screen and media studies Program at Waikato University, Hamilton, whose research explores how intersections between media, religion, and culture are creating new identities in contemporary New Zealand. From 2016 to 2019 Hardy was an investigator on the Royal Society’s Marsden Fund Project Te Maurea Whiritoi: the sky as a cultural resource - Māori astronomy, ritual and ecological knowledge, outputs from which included curating a section of the Te Whaanau Maarama (Family of Light) exhibition on the recent resurgence of the indigenous celebrations of the rising of the Matariki constellation in winter. She also has an interest in audiences for popular culture and was one of four authors of the 2017 volume Fans, Blockbusterization and the Transformation of Cinematic Desire: Global Receptions of the Hobbit Film Trilogy (Palgrave Macmillan).
Mette Hjort is chair professor of humanities and dean of arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, affiliate professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Washington, and visiting professor of cultural industries at the University of South Wales. Hjort holds an honorary doctorate in transnational cinema studies from the University of Aalborg and has served on the board of the Danish Film Institute (appointed by the Danish Ministry of Culture). Her current research focuses on moving images as they relate to public value in the context of health and well-being.
Pietari Kääpä is a reader in media and communications at University of Warwick. He is a specialist in environmental screen media, focusing especially on environmental media production, policies, practices, and content (especially film and television). He has published widely in the field, including Environmental Management of the Media (Routledge 2018) and Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas (Bloomsbury 2014). He also works on media industry studies, especially in relation to Nordic film and television. Publications include The Politics of Nordsploitation (with Tommy Gustafsson, Bloomsbury 2021) and Nordic Genre Film (with Tommy Gustafsson, Edinburgh University Press 2015). He is an editor of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema and a docent (affiliate professor) in film and television studies at the University of Helsinki. He is principal investigator (with Hunter Vaughan) of the AHRC Network on Global Green Media Production (https://globalgreenmedianetwork. com/).
Paisley Livingston (BA, philosophy, Stanford University, PhD The Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University) is professor emeritus of philosophy at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He taught previously at the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, and McGill
