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Contributors

281 Contributors Patrick Crowley is a lecturer in French at University College Cork. His teaching and research focus on contemporary writing and thought, addressing issues such as identity, form, and the legacies of colonialism. He is the author of Pierre Michon: The Afterlife of Names (2007) and coeditor of Formless: Ways In and Out of Form (2005). His essays on writers such as Eugène Savitzkaya, Kateb Yacine, and Edouard Glissant have appeared in a range of journals that include Paragraph, French Forum, and Romance Studies. His essay on contemporary Algerian cinema appeared in Expressions Maghrébines. Scott Durham is chair and associate professor of French at Northwestern University , where he also teaches comparative literary studies. He is the author of Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism (1998) and the editor of a Yale French Studies issue on Jean Genet. He is currently writing two books, with the working titles Eurydice’s Gaze: Historicity, Memory, and Untimeliness in Postmodern Film and The Archive and the Monad: Deleuze and the Resistance to Postmodernism. Mattias Frey is a lecturer in film studies at the University of Kent. His writings have appeared in Cinema Journal, Framework, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Literature/Film Quarterly, and Senses of Cinema, as well as Searching for Sebald, Film and Sexual Politics: A Critical Reader and the Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film. Rosalind Galt is a senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Sussex. She has published in journals such as Screen, Cinema Journal, and Discourse, and her first book, The New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map, was published in 2006 by Columbia University. She is currently editing an anthology on world art cinema with Oxford University Press. Christophe Koné is a doctoral student in the Department of German, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University. He holds an MA in German studies from the University Lumière of Lyon 2, France. His research 282 C O N t R i b U t O R S interests include Weimar modernism, recent German photography, and representations of realism. Tarja Laine is assistant professor of film studies in the Media Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of Shame and Desire: Emotion, Intersubjectivity , Cinema (2007), and her essays on emotions and sensations in cinema have been published in journals such as Discourse, Studies of European Cinema, New Review of Film and Television Studies, PostScript, and Film and Philosophy. Her current research interests include cinema and the philosophy of mind and body. Michael Lawrence is a senior lecturer in film studies at the University of the West of England. He has published essays on todd browning and the actor Lee Kangsheng . He is at work on a monograph on Atom Egoyan. Hugh S. Manon is associate professor in the screen studies program at Oklahoma State University, where he specializes in Lacanian theory and film noir. He has published in Cinema Journal, Film Criticism, and International Journal of Žižek Studies, as well as several anthologies. He is currently completing a book project that links the rise and decline of classic American film noir with the advent of television. Fatima Naqvi is associate professor and graduate director in the Department of German, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University . Currently, she teaches courses on postwar literature and film, Vienna 1900, and the Austrian literary tradition. Her book The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood: Western Europe 1970–2005 (2007) analyzes the pervasive rhetoric of victimhood in European culture since 1968. Brigitte Peucker is the Elias Leavenworth Professor of German and professor of film studies at Yale University. She has published extensively on questions of representation in literature and film. Her latest book is The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film (2007). She is writing a book with the working title Fassbinder’s Performance , as well as editing blackwell’s Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Brian Price is assistant professor of screen studies at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and the Modalities of Revolt and numerous essays in journals and anthologies. He is also coeditor of Color, the Film Reader (2006) and of the journal World Picture. Bert Rebhandl writes about film and arts for newspapers like FAZ and magazines like Frieze. He teaches freelance in the film studies department at Free University. He has published a book on Orson Welles (Genius in the Labyrinth...