Contributors
- Contributors
Bill Albertini is an assistant professor of English at Bowling Green State University, where he also serves as affiliated faculty with the programs in American culture studies and Women's studies. His research explores the construction of bodies by medical, legal, and cultural forces, especially in the realms of illness, disability, and sexuality. His work on the trope of global contagion has been published in the journals VERB and Rhizomes. He is currently at work on two essays, one reexamining the AIDS memoir and another on the utopian politics of the film Shortbus (2006).
Karen Beckman is the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of the History of Art, and she is also the director of the program in cinema studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism (Duke University Press, 2003) and Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis (Duke University Press, forthcoming). She coedited Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography with Jean Ma (Duke University Press, 2008) and has published articles on feminism and terrorism, death penalty photography, pop art and literature, cinema and contemporary art, documentary reenactment, and the photographic portrayal of the Iraq war. She is also one of the editors of the journal Grey Room.
René Thoreau Bruckner is a visiting assistant professor in the Critical Studies Division of the University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts. His research focuses on the history and theory of cinema, precinema, and visual culture, with a persistent emphasis on temporality. He is currently at work on a manuscript evolved from his dissertation, "The Art of Disappearance: Duration, Instantaneity, and the Conception of Cinema." He received his PhD in [End Page 472] Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine. His work has appeared in the journals Spectator, Octopus, and Estudios Visuales.
James Leo Cahill is a doctoral candidate in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts. He is presently writing his dissertation, "Une hallucination vraie," on the early work of avant-garde biological filmmaker Jean Painlevé (ca. 1924–46). He has published essays on avant-garde cinema and film theory, and written exhibition and catalog texts for a number of contemporary artists, including the filmmakers Martin Arnold and Melvin Moti.
Daniel Herbert is an assistant professor in Screen Arts & Cultures at the University of Michigan. He holds a PhD in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California. His essays appear in several edited collections and journals, including Film Quarterly and Millennium Film Journal.
Carlos Kase recently completed his dissertation, "A Cinema of Anxiety: American Experimental Film in the Realm of Art (1965–1975)," in the Division of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. His work addresses the overlapping artistic strategies, social networks, and philosophical interests of experimental film, documentary, and fine-art practice. He currently teaches film studies at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
Todd McGowan teaches cultural theory and film in the English Department at the University of Vermont. He is the author The End of Dissatisfaction (SUNY Press, 2004), The Real Gaze: Film Theory after Lacan (SUNY Press, 2007), and The Impossible David Lynch (Columbia University Press, 2007), as well as the coeditor of Lacan and Contemporary Film (Other Press, 2004). He is also the author of essays on Hegel, psychoanalytic theory, and contemporary cinema. His latest work concerns the theory of time developed in recent nonlinear films and is entitled Out of Time: The Ethics of Atemporal Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).
Greg Siegel is an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His essays have appeared in the journals Art & Text, Grey Room, and Television & New Media, as well as the edited anthologies Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions (Wesleyan University Press, [End Page 473] 2005) and Television: The Critical View, 7th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2007). He is currently writing "Forensic Media: Cultural Traces of Transportation Accidents," a monograph on the use of media technologies for crash analysis and accident investigation. He serves on the editorial board of...
