Contributors
George Bakeris Associate Professor of Art History at UCLA, where he has
taught modern and contemporary art and theory since. A New York and
Paris-based critic for Artforum magazine throughout thes, he also works
as an editor of the journal October and its publishing imprint October Books.
Baker is the author, most recently, ofThe Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Pica-
bia and Dada in Paris(MIT Press,), and several other books includingJames
Coleman: Drei Filmarbeiten(Sprengel Museum,), andGerard Byrne: Books,
Magazines, and Newspapers(Lukas & Sternberg,). He has published essays
on a variety of postmodern and contemporary artists including Robert Smith-
son, Robert Whitman, Anthony McCall, Paul Thek, Louise Lawler, Andrea Fra-
ser, Christian Philipp Müller, Tom Burr, Rachel Harrison, Richard Hawkins,
Paul Chan, and Knut Åsdam. Currently, he is working on disparate projects
including a revisionist study of Picasso’s modernism and a shorter book on the
work of four women artists–Zoe Leonard, Tacita Dean, Moyra Davey and
Sharon Lockhart–to be entitledLateness and Longing: On the Afterlife of Photogra-
phy. The latter is part of a larger project that Baker has termed“photography’s
expanded field,”detailing the fate of photography and film works in contempo-
rary cultural production.
Thomas Elsaesserhas worked as Professor at the University of Amsterdam,
and Chair of the Department of Film and Television Studies (-). His
essays on film theory, film genre, film history and television have appeared in
well over two hundred collections and anthologies, with essays translated into
in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Slove-
nian, Czech, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. His books as author includeNew
German Cinema: A History(London: Macmillan and New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press,, reprinted) which received the Jay Leyda Prize
(NYU) and the Kovacs Book Award (SCMS),Fassbind’s Germany: History Identity
Subject(Amsterdam: AUP,),Weimar Cinema and After(London/ New York:
Routledge,[winner of the Kovacs Book Award of SCMS]),Metropolis(Lon-
don: BFI,), (with W.Buckland)Studying Contemporary American Film(Lon-
don/NY,)andFilmgeschichte und Frühes Kino(Munich,),European Cin-
ema: Face to Face with Hollywood(Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press,
), and editedEarly Cinema: Space Frame Narrative(London: British Film In-
stitute and Bloomington: Indiana University Press,),The Last Great Ameri-