Anneke Smelik (NL) is Professor in Visual Culture at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She published And The Mirror Cracked. Feminist Cinema and Film Theory, London: Macmillan, 1998 and co-edited Women's Studies and Culture. A Feminist Introduction, London: Zed Books, 1995. She is also the main author of a book (in Dutch) about visual and textual representations of femininity and masculinity in the media: Effectief Beeldvormen (1999). Her current research focuses on transformations of the body in science fiction films and in cyber art CD-ROMs. She is also developing research on issues of media education.