Born in Vietnam, Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer and music composer. Her works include: eight films • Forgetting Vietnam (90 mins, 2015) • Night Passage (98mins narrative, 2004) • The Fourth Dimension (87 min Digital Video, 2001), • A Tale of Love (108 mins, 1995), an experimental narrative, • Shoot for the Contents (102 mins, 1991), a film on culture, art and politics in China, • Surname Viet Given Name Nam (108 mins, 1989), a film on identity and culture through the struggle of Vietnamese...
Kaja Silverman is Emerita Professor of Rhetoric and Film & Media, and the author of eight books: James Coleman; World Spectators; Speaking About Godard; The Threshold of the Visual World; Male Subjectivity at the Margins; The Acoustic Mirror; The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema; The Subject of Semiotics; and Flesh of My Flesh. She retired from UC Berkeley in June 2010. She is currently the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Chair of Contemporary Art at the History of Art Department, University of...
Linda Williams teaches courses on popular moving-image genres (pornography, melodrama, and “body genres” of all sorts). She has also taught courses on Oscar Micheaux and Spike Lee, Luis Bunuel and Pedro Almodovar, melodrama, film theory, selected “sex genres,” and The Wire. Her books include a psychoanalytic study of Surrealist cinema, Figures of Desire (1981), a co-edited volume of feminist film criticism (Re-vision, 1984), an edited volume on film spectatorship, Viewing Positions (1993) and...
Michael Wintroub takes as the focus of his research what Mauss has called “total social phenomena”—that is, phenomena in which religious, scientific, legal, moral, aesthetic and economic institutions find simultaneous expression. He is concerned with the mediations and connections between these various dimensions of human activity and how they develop over time and over space. His sources are rituals, ceremonies, festivities, and technical practices; words, poems, pictures, rhetorical rules and classificatory schemes; ships, sailors, poets, courts and kings; coins, artefacts,...