Screening Socialism

Sabina Mihelj is Reader in Media and Cultural Analysis in the department of Social Sciences and currently serves as the BSc Communication and Media Studies Programme Director. Prior to joining Loughborough Sabina worked and studied in Slovenia, Hungary and Germany. Her major areas of research expertise include the cultural Cold War, nationalism and the mass media; television studies and comparative media research.

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Alice Bardan holds a Ph.D from University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She has taught writing and film courses at University of Southern California, California State University, Fullerton, Loyola Marymount University, and at Boston University’s Los Angeles Internship Program. Her interest in television studies, transnational film and media, and visual and cultural studies is reflected in her published chapters in several edited collections, including Work and Cinema: Labor and the Human Condition(Palgrave, 2013), The Cinemas of Italian Migration: European and Transatlantic Narratives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) Transnational Feminism in Film and Media (Palgrave, 2007); Not Necessarily the News? News Parody and Political Satire across the Globe (Routledge, 2012), Entertaining the New Europe: Popular Television in Socialist and Post-Socialist Europe (Routledge, 2012); The Blackwell Companion to East European Cinema (Blackwell, 2012); Branding Post- Communist Nations (Routledge, 2012); and in the refereed journals New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (2008); Flow (2010); and Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture (2012).

Simon Huxtable is Research Associate on the Screening Socialism project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.  He recently completed his PhD in history at Birkbeck College, University of London, for which he conducted research in archives in Russia and the United States. Simon’s research focuses on the development of mass media and communications in post-war Eastern Europe.

Sylwia Szostak is Research Associate on the Screening Socialism project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham’s Department of Culture, Film and Media. Her doctoral research examined the impact of international media flows on Polish television in the post-Soviet era, with particular attention to the influence of American fiction television. Her major areas of research interest include television history, development of Eastern European television industries, television programme exchanges, television series production and localisation.