Media History | IAMHIST

IAMHIST is headed by the board of directors. This board consists of the IAMHIST president and 11 council members. All members of the council are elected for four years. For the upcoming election (June 09), there are 6 vacancies on the council (for council members serving from 2009-2013). In the following weeks, all IAMHIST members will receive an e-mail invitation to vote online for the IAMHIST council. Here you can find a short presentation of the candidates.

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James Chapman
Born in 1968, James Chapman took his BA in History and Film Studies at the University of East Anglia in 1988-91, followed by a Masters in Film Archiving 1991-92. He undertook his doctoral research at Lancaster University between 1992 and 1995 on the subject of ‘Official British film propaganda during the Second World War’. He joined The Open University in 1996 as Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer) in Film and Television History. In 2005 he was appointed founding Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester.
James Chapman’s research focuses on British popular culture, especially cinema and television, in their historical contexts. To date he has published eight books and two edited collections: The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-1945 (I. B. Tauris, 1998), Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films (I. B. Tauris, 1999; 2nd edn 2007), Windows on the Sixties: Exploring Key Texts of Media and Culture (I. B. Tauris, 2000, co-edited with Anthony Aldgate and Arthur Marwick), Saints and Avengers: British Adventure Series of the 1960s (I. B. Tauris, 2002), Cinemas of the World: Film and Society from 1895 to the Present (Reaktion, 2003), Past and Present: National Identity and the British Historical Film (I. B. Tauris, 2005), Inside the Tardis: The Worlds of ‘Doctor Who’ – A Cultural History (I. B. Tauris, 2006), The New Film History: Sources, Methods, Approaches (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, co-edited with Mark Glancy and Sue Harper), War and Film (Reaktion, 2008) and Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinema (I. B. Tauris, 2009, co-authored with Nicholas J. Cull). He is currently writing a cultural history of British comic books for Reaktion to be published in 2011.
He has been a member of the IAMHIST Council since 2006. He is also co-editor of the Journal of British Cinema and Television. According to Wikipedia he was the St Wolfgang Amateur Yodelling Champion of 1983 and once a promising cricketer with an elegant cover drive. This merely proves that you can’t trust what you read on Wikipedia.

Rainer Rother
-- Born in 1956, Rainer Rother studied History and German Literature. Dissertation in 1988, lectured at the Universities of Hannover, Hildesheim and Saarbrücken. Since 1991 Head of the Cinemathek of the German Historical Museum. Curator of exhibitions, e. g. Die Ufa 1917-1945 (1992), Images of the First World War (1994). Co-Curator of Selling Democracy – The Films of the Marshall Plan (International Filmfestival Berlin, 2004-2006).
-- Served as IAMHIST´s Secretary General between 1998 and 2006.
-- Since April 2006 Artistic Director of the German Cinematheque – Museum for Film and Television in Berlin.
-- Publications includes Articles in HJFRTV (Films in and on WWI, Nationalsocialist Films) and numerous German Periodicals as well as Newspapers. 2002 Leni Riefenstahl. The seduction of genius was published by Continuum. His latest book is a portrait of the young German Actress Nina Hoss (published in February 2009)

Luke McKernan is Curator, Moving Image at the British Library, the first person to have this role. Previously he was Head of Information at the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), and before then a cataloguer at the National Film and Television Archive. He is an historian of early and non-fiction cinema. His publications include Topical Budget: The Great British News Film (1992), Walking Shadows: Shakespeare in the National Film and Television Archive (1994, co-edited with Olwen Terris), Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema (1996,co-edited with Stephen Herbert), Yesterday’s News: The British Cinema Newsreel Reader (2002),and most recently Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio: The Researcher’s Guide (2009, co-edited by Eve-Marie Oesterlen and Olwen Terris). He is active in online publishing, managing three websites (including the web version of Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema, http://www.victorian-cinema.net, two blogs (including one dedicated to silent film research, The Bioscope, http://bioscopic.wordpress.com and a social network, Screen Research (http://screenresearch.ning.com. Professionally, he supervised the British Universities Newsreel Database while at the BUFVC, along with several other databases designed for academic use. He was chair of the UK Film Archive Forum 2000-2006.

Thierry Rolland
1979 Master’s Degree in History (Paris X Nanterre)

1980-1982 Non theatrical distribution of third world films (Inter Service Migrants)
1983-1992 INA : Librarian
1992-1994 Free lance researcher and Producer
1994-2003 Director of French Pathé Archives
2003 Creation of L’atelier des Archives (commercial library and consulting)
Member of the board of the department of Culture and Communication (Paris VIII St Denis)

Co-opted member of the IAMHIST council since 2007

Jo Fox is a specialist in the history of film and propaganda in twentieth-century Europe. She has published on the cinematic cultures of Britain and Germany during the Second World War, exploring the connections between film, propaganda and popular opinion, and is the author of Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema, Berg, 358 pp. She is currently writing a biography of the 'Father of Documentary', John Grierson, and his influence on early film, propaganda, international film education, and the emergence of reality television. She is currently a member of the Council for the International Association for Media and History. Jo Fox is a National Teaching Fellow (2007).

Karsten Fledelius
Karsten Fledelius has been working in the field of media and history since 1967.
He currently is Associate professor at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen (since 1985). In 1969-1985, he first was assistant, then associate professor at the History Department of Copenhagen University.
Karsten Fledelius is co-founder of IAMHIST (1977) and has served as a council member ever since (secretary general 1977-79; president 1979-85; Newsletter editor 1976-1985). In 1985 he organised a series of methodological sessions on Film and History at the International Congress of Historical Studies in Stuttgart, thus introducing the subject in the field of historical studies.
He is currently working on the use of religious and anti-religious elements in film, TV and video propaganda, from World War II to the present, the role of audiovisual media for nation building in Eastern Europe, and the concept of Blasphemy on Film in a historical perspective.

Leen Engelen (°1977) studied Communication Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven and at the University of Ulster (Northern Ireland). In her PhD research she looked at the Representation of the First World War in Belgian fiction films from the interwar period. She got awarded her PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2005. After completing her PhD, she was assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam (2005-2007). Currently, she is a lecturer and researcher in film history and media theory at the Media and Design Academy (University College Limburg). Leen has published in several national and international academic journals and is co-editor (with Roel Vande Winkel) of Perspectives on European Film and History (2007). Leen has been secretary-general of the International Association for Media and History since 2006. She is currently working on colonial cinema, cinema/photography and historical representation and Belgian cinema.