Contributors
- Contributors
Manuel Asensi Pérez is professor and chair of the Department of Literary Theory at the University of Valencia, Spain. He is the author of numerous books of criticism, the most recent of which include Crítica y sabotaje (Anthropos/Siglo XXI, 2011), Los años salvajes de la teoría: Philippe Sollers, Tel Quel y la génesis del pensamiento post-estructural francés (Tirant lo Blanch, 2004) and (with J. Hillis Miller) Black Holes/J. Hillis Miller, or Boustrophedonic Reading (Stanford University Press, 1999).
Hester Baer is associate professor of German at the University of Maryland–College Park. Her research focuses on how popular culture responds to social and political change in modern Germany, with a particular emphasis on gender and sexuality. She is the author of Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language (Berghahn, 2009) and the editor of a special issue of Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature titled, “Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Return of Feminism in Germany” (2011).
Jonathan Beller is professor of Humanities and Media Studies and director of the Graduate Program in Media Studies at Pratt Institute. His books include The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle (Dartmouth College Press, 2006) and Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality, Nationalist Struggle and the World-Media System (Ateneo University Press, 2006). [End Page 128]
Jorge E. Cuéllar is a doctoral student in the combined PhD program in American studies and film studies at Yale University. His research focuses on the history of cinema, radio, and other cultural media in Central America with special attention to the social, political, and economic realities of El Salvador. More broadly, his research examines modern political thought, radical social theory, inequality, and everyday forms of state formation.
Alison Kozberg is a PhD candidate in the critical studies program at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. Her dissertation examines experimental film exhibition and curatorship after World War II.
Steven Marsh is associate professor of Spanish film in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Popular Spanish Film under Franco: Comedy and the Weakening of the State (Palgrave, 2006), coeditor of Gender and Spanish Cinema (Berg, 2004), and one of the joint authors of the ongoing international collaborative project Cinema and the Mediation of Everyday Life, an oral history of filmgoing in Spain in the 1940s and 1950s.
Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (University of Nebraska, 2013) in addition to other books and coauthor, with Paul Eisenstein, of Rupture: On the Emergence of the Political (Northwestern University Press, 2012).
Samuel Steinberg is assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Southern California. His research and teaching engage modern and contemporary Latin American literature and visual culture as well as critical theory and political thought. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Revista Hispánica Moderna, Third Text, and CR: New Centennial Review. His book manuscript, “Photopoetics at Tlatelolco,” is under contract with the University of Texas Press. [End Page 129]
