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Janelle Blankenship is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies and Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature and Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. She previously taught in the Department of German at New York University. She has published numerous essays on early cinema, film theory, and literary modernism in the journals Cinema & Cie: International Film Studies Journal , Kintop: Das Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des frühen Filmes , Modernist Cultures , and Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics . Christa Blümlinger is Maître de conférences in film studies at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3). She was assistant and guest professor at the Free University Berlin and has worked as a critic and a curator in Vienna, Berlin, and Paris. Her most recent publication is Kino aus Zweiter Hand. Zur Ästhetik materieller Aneignung im Film und in der Medienkunst (Berlin, 2009). Eugenie Brinkema is a PhD student in modern culture and media at Brown University. Her work focuses on violence, ethics, and sexual difference, and she is completing a dissertation on affects in film, film theory, and continental philosophy. Her articles have appeared in the Dalhousie Review , Camera Obscura , Women: A Cultural Review , Journal of Speculative Philosophy , and Criticism , with forthcoming work in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities ... log in or subscribe to read full text