Joseph Clark

Joseph Clark is a PhD Candidate in the department of American Civilization at Brown University. His dissertation, Canned History: The American Newsreel and the Commodification of Reality, 1927-1950, examines the history of the sound newsreel – its modes of production, distribution, exhibition and representation. His other research interests include the history and theory of documentary genres and practices of media exhibition and reception. His teaching interests include film and media studies, cultural theory, and American history after 1865. He recently taught in the film studies program at the University of British Columbia.

Joseph is a full-fledged “Orphanista,” having presented research at the Orphan Film Symposium in 2006 and 2008. He has also given papers at the annual conferences of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and the Film Studies Association of Canada.

JoAnne Stober

JoAnne Stober has a PhD in Communications Studies from Concordia University in Montreal. Her research is in the cultural history of moviegoing and exhibition in Canada during the transitional phase from silent to synchronized sound cinema. JoAnne has presented her research internationally including the Orphans Symposium in New York City in 2008. She has been working as an Archivist as the Library and Archives of Canada since 2001. In addition to working with photography, moving images and textual collections, she curated a feature exhibition on the cultural history of photojournalism in Canada entitled, Events in the making: A Century of Photojournalism. JoAnne has also done freelance audio productions with the Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio One, film and video production.