Jane M. Gaines is Professor Emerita of Literature and English, Duke University and currently Professor of Film, Columbia University, and the author of three books: Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law (North Carolina, 1991); Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era (Chicago, 2001); and Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? (University of Illinois Press, 2018).
A founder of the Visible Evidence conference on documentary, she continues to publish on documentary activism, intellectual property in the internet age, the history of piracy, and most recently has critiqued the “historical turn” in film and media studies as “What Happened to the Philosophy of Film History?” and “Eisenstein’s Absolutely Wonderful, Totally Impossible Project,” in Sergei M. Eisenstein: Notes for a General History of Cinema.
