Indexicality: Trace and Sign: Introduction

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mary ann doane is George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is the author of The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive (Harvard University Press, 2002), Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1991), and The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s (Indiana University Press, 1987). Currently, she is researching the use of the close-up in film practice and theory and the way in which screen size and its corresponding scale have figured in the negotiation of the human body's relation to space in modernity.