Auteur: David A. Gerstner

David A. Gerstner is professor of cinema studies at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island, where he is chair of the Department of Media Culture. He is also a faculty member at the CUNY Graduate Center. His books include Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Back Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic and Authorship and Film (coedited with Janet Staiger). Julien Nahmias is a psychiatrist and works at the Institut Paul Sivadon–Association L »Élan Retrouvé, Paris, France. He has written a medical thesis about the cinematic representation of the psychiatrist and has given lectures on the topic of psychiatry and cinema (University of Paris V).