Angela Ndalianis is Head of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Melbourne. Her research areas focus on contemporary cinema and new media. She is the co-editor of Stars in Our Eyes: The Star Phenomenon in the Contemporary Era (Praeger 2002). In addition to journal articles, she has contributed to the anthologies On a Silver Platter: CD-Roms and the Promises of a New Technology (ed. Greg Smith, NYU Press 1999), MetaMorphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick Change (ed. Vivian Sobchack, UMinnesota P 2000), Hop on Pop: the Politics and Pleasures of Popular Cultures (ed. Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, Jane Shattuc, Duke U P 2003), and Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics Of Transition (eds David Thorburn & Henry Jenkins, MIT Press 2003). Her book Neo-Baroque and Contemporary Entertainment (MIT Press 2003).