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  • Contributors

Karen Beckman is the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania; she is also the director of the program in Cinema Studies. She is the author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism (Duke University Press, 2003) and coeditor of Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography (Duke University Press, 2008), as well as Picture This! Photography and Literature (forthcoming).

Giorgio Bertellini is Assistant Professor in Screen Arts and Cultures and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He is the author of Emir Kusturica (Castoro, 1996) and Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque (Indiana University Press, 2009). His edited and coedited anthologies include The Cinema of Italy (Wallflower, 2004, 2007), Early Cinema and the "National" ( John Libbey, 2008), and Silent Italian Cinema: A Reader ( John Libbey, forthcoming).

Haden Guest is Director of the Harvard Film Archive and Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture in Harvard's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.

E. Ann Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University. Her many books include Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature (Rutgers University Press, 2005), Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze (Routledge, 1997), and Feminism and Film (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Jacqueline Reich is Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Beyond the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2004) and coeditor of Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema 1922-43 (Indiana University Press, 2002).

Patricia White is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (Indiana University Press, 1999), and coauthor with Timothy Corrigan of the introductory film studies textbook The Film Experience (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004). Her essays and chapters have appeared in The Feminist Reader in Early Cinema, Screen, Camera Obscura, and Cinema Journal.

Justin Wyatt is Executive Director, Research at the Comcast Entertainment Group. He has held positions in market research at the ABC TV Network and Frank N. Magid Associates. Before leaving academia in 2000, Wyatt was an Associate Professor of Media Arts at the University of Arizona. [End Page 116]

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