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Nico Baumbach is an assistant professor of film studies at Columbia University. He writes on film, philosophy, and the intersection of aesthetics and politics.
Thomas Elsaesser is professor emeritus in the Department of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of New German Cinema: A History (1989) and Fassbinder’s Germany: History Identity Subject (1996). His recent publications include European...
Catherine Russell is Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. She is the author of four books and numerous articles on narrative theory, experimental ethnography, Japanese cinema, experimental film, Canadian cinema, and Walter Benjamin. Please see www.catherinerussell.ca.
Evan Calder Williams is a writer, theorist, and artist. He is the author of Combined and Uneven Apocalypse and Roman Letters.
Paul Thomas is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and American Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. A contributing editor of Film Quarterly, he is currently at work on a critical biography of Jean Renoir.
Chandak Sengoopta, born and educated in Kolkata, is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. The author of many scholarly and popular essays on the cultural contexts of Satyajit Ray’s work and its reception, he was recently awarded...
Sam McPheeters is the author of The Loom of Ruin. He lives in Pomona, California.
Sam Di Iorio has written about Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Jacques Rivette, François Truffaut, and Luc Moullet. He teaches French cinema and French literature in the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College and at the Graduate Center of the...
Tony Pipolo writes extensively on film. He is the author of the award-winning Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film and is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York.
Patrick Wang is the writer and director of In the Family, playing in theaters across the U.S.