Notes on Contributors
Leo Braudy is University Professor and Bing Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Southern California. Among other works, he is the author of Jean Renoir (1972), The World in a Frame (1976), The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and its History (1986), and From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity (2003). His most recent book is The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon (2011).
Colin Davis is Research Professor of French at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His research is principally concerned with twentieth-century French literature, thought and film. His most recent books are Scenes of Love and Murder: Renoir, Film and Philosophy (London: Wallflower, 2009) and Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek and Cavell (Stanford University Press, 2010). He is currently writing a book on Renoir's later films.
Christopher Faulkner is Distinguished Research Professor in the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir (Princeton University Press, 1986), of Jean Renoir: A Conversation With His Films, 1894-1979 (Taschen, 2007) and, with Olivier Curchod, of La Règle du jeu: scénario original de Jean Renoir (Nathan, 1999). He is currently completing a book on the production and reception of Renoir's La Règle du jeu.
Eduardo A. Febles is Associate Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of Explosive Narratives: Terrorism and Anarchy in the Works of Emile Zola (New York/Amsterdam, Rodopi Faux Titre, 2010). He is currently working on a project analyzing the intersection of anti-Semitism and homophobia during the Dreyfus Affair as portrayed in Emile Zola's Vérité.
Katherine Golsan is Professor of French and Film Studies at the University of the Pacific. She is translator of books by Tzvetan Todorov and François Furet/Ernst Nolte. She has published articles on major nineteenth-century French novelists, Baudelaire and painting, and film adaptation. For the past several years she has been publishing on issues of gender in Renoir's cinema. She is currently working on a longer project on Renoir's The River.
Sue Harris is reader in French & Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of the monograph Bertrand Blier (Manchester University Press, 2001), co-author (with Tim Bergfelder & Sarah Street) of Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2007). She is also associate editor of the UK journal French Cultural Studies. Currently, she is preparing a monograph on Vincente Minnelli's An American in Paris (1951) for the British Film Institute. [End Page 138]
Martin O'Shaughnessy is Professor of Film Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He has written widely on French film but is particularly interested in film and the political. He is the author of Jean Renoir (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), The New Face of Political Cinema (New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2007) and La Grande Illusion (London, New York: I. B. Tauris, 2009). He co-edited Cinéma et engagement (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005).
Leland Poague is Professor of English at Iowa State University. His most recent publication, co-edited with Thomas Leitch, is A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). His earlier books include Howard Hawks (Twayne, 1982) and Another Frank Capra (Cambridge, 1994). With Marshall Deutelbaum he co-edited A Hitchcock Reader, which recently appeared in a second edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). [End Page 139]
