Magdalena Grzebalkowska, Komeda

Author Biography

• David Melbye, University of Tyumen

  David Melbye earned his doctorate in Cinema and Television from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. He has published two monographs, Irony in The Twilight Zone and Landscape Allegory in Cinema, and he is now working on Crime-Jazz Diasporas: African American Popular Music in Overseas Cinema. Melbye has also produced music for popular television shows including Friday Night Lights, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and One Life to Live. He is Professor of Film and Media in the School of Advanced Studies at the University of Tyumen, Russia.