The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS Susan white is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. She is the author of The Cinema of Max Ophuis (1995) and of various essays on gender and cinema. marcel OPHULS, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the son of Max Ophuls and Hilde Wall Ophuls. His 1969 film, Le Chagrin et \a Pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity) was nominated for an Academy Award; his 1988 film, Hôtel Terminus, won the Oscar for Best Documentary. In 1995 Ophuls received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association. He currently resides in Lucq-deBeam in Southwest France. martina Müller is an independent scholar and freelance filmmaker for Westdeutscher Rundfunk (wdr tv) in Cologne. William paúl is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of Ernst Lubitsch's American Comedy and Laughing, Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy. He is currently completing work on a new book, Movies/ Theaters: Architecture, Exhibition, and Film Technology. GAYLYN STUDLAR is Rudolf Amheim Collegiate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she has directed the Program in Film and Video Studies since 1995. marshall Deutelbaum teaches courses in film history and film theory at Purdue University. Lutz bâcher is Professor of Communications at Robert Morris University , Pittsburgh. The author of The Mobile Mise En Scene and Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios, he is currently working on a history of rental studio independent production in the classical Hollywood era. JEAN-LOUP BOURGET teaches film studies at Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, France. Much of his research deals with the Hollywood careers of such "European" directors as Lubitsch, Sirk, Ophuls, and Lang. Vincent AMiEL is Professor of Film Studies at the Université de Caen. He is a member of the editorial boards ofEsprit and Positif, and publishes regularly in these journals. His recent work focuses on the question of the body and on editing from an aesthetic perspective. David M. LUGOWSKi is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Communication Studies at Manhattanville College. He works in the areas oflesbian, gay and queer theory and film, and has published in Cinéaste and Cinema Journal. Helmut G. asper is Professor of Media Theory and History, 17thand i8th-Century German Theater, and German Radio, Film, and Theater from the Weimar Republic to post-1945 in the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature at Universität Bielefeld. He is the author of many essays and books. Ronny LOEWY, co-publisher of the magazine Filmexil, works at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt/Main and is project manager of "Cinematography of the Holocaust" in cooperation with the Fritz Bauer Institute. He has published on exiled filmmakers and on Yiddish cinema, and he has written and directed films. Karl siEREK is Professor and Chair of History and Esthetics of Media at the Friedrich Schiller University ofJena/Germany. He was Visiting Professor in Paris, Berlin, and Salzburg. His latest books include: Das Gesicht im Zeitalter des bewegten Bildes (2002) and Siegfried Bernfel á: Der Psychoanalytiker im Kino (2000). ...