The Indexical and the Concept of Medium Specificity

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.