John Belton

John Belton, a Professor of Film in the English Department at Rutgers University, will write a book tracing the evolution of color in motion pictures, exploring its initial exploitation as spectacle and its association with fantasy and its subsequent development into a quasi-invisible tool of the narrative and its identification with greater realism. It will be titled From Paintbrush to Paintbox: A History of Motion Picture Color.

Richard Jewell

Richard Jewell, the Hugh M. Hefner Professor of American Film in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, will write a history of RKO Radio Pictures from the perspective of its leaders called RKO Radio Pictures: A Corporate History.

Jan- Christopher Horak

Jan-Christopher Horak, a visiting professor in the critical studies/archival training program at the University of California, Los Angeles, will write a biography of Saul Bass, a designer of movie posters, studio publicity materials, credits sequences and corporate logos, focusing on his influence on the motion picture industry. The book will be titled Saul Bass, Modernism and Movie Publicity.

David Edmund James

David Edmund James, a professor at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, will write his book on the interaction between rock ‘n’ roll and cinema in the United States and the United Kingdom beginning in the mid-1950s, through the “British Invasion” of the 1960s, to the eras of country, disco, punk, heavy metal, and hip-hop and rap. It will be called Rock 'n' Film: The Pop Musical in the United States and Britain since the 1950's.

	Stuart Liebman

Stuart Liebman, a professor in the department of media studies at Queens College of the University of New York as well as a professor of theater and art history at the CUNY Graduate Center, will write a cultural history of the formative period of Holocaust cinema called Black Suns: Constellations of the Holocaust in World Cinema, 1944-1956.

	Emily Thompson

Emily Thompson, an associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego who also is an affiliated researcher at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at UCSD, will write a history of the transition to sound from the perspective of the technical workers whose work was transformed through the new technology. It will be titled Sound Effects: Technicians and the Talkies in the American Film Industry, 1925-1933.

	Cari Beauchamp

Cari Beauchamp, a prolific writer of essays and articles about Hollywood's past, will write a biography of Joseph P. Kennedy's Hollywood career titled Joe Kennedy's Hollywood. It will be Beauchamp's fourth cinema history book.

	Charles Musser

Charles Musser, co-chair of the film studies program and professor of American Studies and Film Studies at Yale University will complete a study of the changing approaches to "truth" in nonfiction film. His book will be titled Film Truth, Documentary Practice: A History.

	Thomas Doherty

Thomas Doherty, chair of the Film Studies Program at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, will prepare a monograph exploring the life and legacy of Joseph l. Breen, who from 1934 until 1954 served as head of the Motion Picture Association of America's Production Code Administration. The monograph will be entitled Joseph l. Breen: The Censor as Auteur.

	Shelley Stamp

Shelley Stamp, associate professor in the Film and Digital Media Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will finish a book, Lois Weber in Early Hollywood, about the director, writer and actress who, at the height of her career in 1916, was, Stamp says, "a director of unparalleled stature."

	Dana Polan

Dana Polan, professor of critical studies at the School of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, is completing research he has been conducting on The Beginnings of American Film Study, examining the steps by which academia has been able to accept cinema as a subject worthy of study.

	David Rodowick

David Rodowick, professor and chair in film studies at King's College at the University of London, England, is undertaking a review of the replacement by digital technologies of almost every aspect of filmmaking and filmviewing over the past two decades, and the expected disappearance of celluloid film stock over the next decade, to be entitled The Virtual Life of Film.

	Jane Gaines

Jane Gaines, director of the Program in Film and Video at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, is writing an overview of the critical and historical work done to date on women in the silent film industry, to be entitled Women Film Pioneers: Their Fictions, Their Histories.

	Steven J. Ross

Steven J. Ross, professor of history at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, is examining the relationship between movies, movie stars and American political culture across the entire 20th century in Hollywood Left and Right: Movie Stars and Politics.

	Tino Balio

Tino Balio, professor of film in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is writing a comprehensive institutional history of foreign films and their influence on American film culture entitled A Radically Different Cinema: Foreign Films in America, 1948 to the Present.

	Donald Crafton

Donald Crafton, professor of communication and theatre at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, is undertaking an analysis of animated cartoon shorts from about 1928 to 1939 "to reveal the important social relevance underlying these superfically insignificant productions." It will be titled Shadow of a Mouse: Animation and American Culture in the 1930s.