Jeremy G. Butler, jbutler [at] ua.edu, The University of Alabama, personal Website.

Butler has taught television, film, and new media courses since 1977--at the University of Alabama and the University of Arizona. He edited Star Texts: Image and Performance in Film and Television and has published articles on ER, Roseanne, Miami Vice, Imitation of Life, soap opera, the sitcom, and other topics in journals such as Cinema Journal, Journal of Film and Video, and Screen. He created Screen-L and ScreenSite, two of the earliest Internet resources for film/TV teachers/students; and served as the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' first information technology officer. He also hosts a weekly radio program, All Things Acoustic, on Alabama Public Radio.

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"Music Television": Blaine Allan, allanb [at] post.queensu.ca, Department of Film Studies, Queen's University, personal Website.

Allan has taught courses in historical approaches to the cinema and television, particularly Canadian, at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, since 1980. He is the author of Nicholas Ray: A Guide to References and Resources, co-editor of Responses: In Honour of Peter Harcourt, and author of the Internet-accessible Directory of CBC Television Series, 1952-1982. He has published articles on film and television in such periodicals as Film Quarterly, the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Film History, the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, and Moody Street Irregulars: A Jack Kerouac Newsletter.

"A History of Television Style": Gary Copeland, Gary.Copeland [at] ua.edu, Telecommunication and Film Dept., The University of Alabama, personal Website.

Copeland has also taught at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Copeland is co-author of four books: Broadcasting/Cable and Beyond, 3rd ed., a telecommunication text; Negative Political Advertising: Coming of Age, a research text on negative political advertising; Manipulation of the American Voter: Modern Political Commercials, a research text that describes the effects and effectiveness of political advertising; and Inside Political Campaigns: Theory and Practice, which reveals the art and science of political campaign consulting. He is co-editor of Critical Questions: Invention, Creativity, and the Criticism of Discourse and Media, a critique of critical discourse. His work has appeared in such publications as The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Journalism Quarterly, and Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. His work has been practical as well as academic as he has served as a paid political consultant to local, state and federal campaigns and has consulted internationally.