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  • Contributors

Guy Barefoot is a Lecturer in Film Studies at Leicester University. His publications include entries on Bill Douglas and other directors in The BFI Reference Guide to British Film Directors (forthcoming), and in the British Film Institute's Screenonline web resource.

Julie F. Codell is Professor of Art History and English at Arizona State University. She is the author of The Victorian Artist: Artists' Life Writings in Britain, 1870–1910 (Cambridge UP, 2003), essays and book chapters on Gandhi's Autobiography, 19th-and early 20th-century biographies and travel writings in India, artists' biographies, life writings' effects on art history's methodologies, Victorian artists' projection of their lives in art, and cross-readings between photography and biography, and an entry on the biographical dictionary for The Encyclopedia of Life Writing (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001).

Efrén Cuevas is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Navarra, Spain. He is coeditor of The Man Without the Movie Camera: The Cinema of Alan Berliner, and author of several articles on autobiography and cinema. He is currently researching autobiographical documentaries, family memoirs, and home movies.

Christine Fanthome is a freelance media consultant and writer, and a visiting lecturer at City University, London. Her publications include Channel 5—The Early Years (U of Luton P, 2000).

Theresa L. Geller is a Ph.D. Candidate at Rutgers University, completing her dissertation entitled "Cinema in the Present Tense: Film Theory Beyond Representation." Her work has appeared in such journals as Frontiers, Rhizomes, and Senses of Cinema. She has chapters forthcoming in several anthologies, including Gender After Lyotard, Queer Chinese Cinemas, and Unmaking the Cut: Feminism, Filmmaking, Fluidity.

Nadja Gernalzick received an MA in Comparative Literature and a PhD and venia legendi in American Studies from Johannes-Gutenberg University (Mainz). She also studied at San Jose State University and Columbia University. She has pursued transmedial semiotics in research on money and economy in the works of Jacques Derrida, and lately, on filmic autobiography. [End Page 270]

Peter Mathews is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Centenary College in New Jersey. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies from Monash University (Melbourne). His research focuses on the effects of modernity on literature and culture. He has recently published papers on John Cheever, Chuck Palahniuk, Katherine Mansfield, and Richard Kelly's film Donnie Darko. He also has forthcoming essays in 2006 on Iain Pears, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, and D. H. Lawrence.

Milan Pribisic holds a PhD in Theatre Studies, and teaches in the Department of Communication at Loyola University Chicago. He has published articles in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Theatre Survey, Filmske sveske [Film Notebooks], and contributed to the anthology Novi Holivud [New Hollywood] (Belgrade, 2002). His research interests include film adaptation, "theatre film," and queer representations.

Linda Haverty Rugg is Associate Professor in the Scandinavian Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctorate was in Comparative Literature, and her first book, Picturing Ourselves: Autobiography and Photography (U of Chicago P, 1997) discussed the work of Mark Twain, August Strindberg, Walter Benjamin, and Christa Wolf. Presently she is writing a sequel—The Auteur's Autograph: Self-Projection in Auteurist Cinema—which considers films by François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Pedro Almodóvar, among others.

Jason Sperb is a doctoral student in Communication and Culture at Indiana University-Bloomington. In addition to writing for such journals as Film Criticism, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Storytelling, and Bright Lights Film Journal, he is the author of The Kubrick Façade (Scarecrow, 2006) and a forthcoming project on late postmodern cinema.

Garrett Stewart is James O. Freedman Professor of Letters at the University of Iowa,. He is the author of several books of literary criticism, most recently Dear Reader: The Conscripted Audience in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996). His work on film includes Between Film and Screen: Modernism's Photo Synthesis (U of Chicago P, 1999). The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text will appear in 2006 from the University of Chicago Press.

Michael Tratner is Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College, and author, most recently, of Deficits...

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