JULIAN JACKSON is Professor of Modern French History at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He has written extensively on aspects of twentieth century history. His most recent books are France: the Dark Years (2001), The Fall of France (2003), Living in Arcadia: Homosexuality, Morality and Politics in France from the Liberation to Aids (2010), La Grande Illusion (2010). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Commandeur dans les Palmes Academiques.
ANNA-LOUISE MILNE is Senior Lecturer at the University of London Institute in Paris, France, and author of a monograph on Jean Paulhan, The Extreme In-Between (2006) and a critical edition of Paulhan letters (2005). She edited a collection on the Nouvelle Revue Francaise (2008) and is currently completing a Cambridge Companion to Paris and Literature and a book entitled Centrality and the City.
JAMES S. WILLIAMS is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of monographs on Marguerite Duras, Albert Camus and Jean Cocteau, and has co-edited Gay Signatures: gay and lesbian theory, fiction and film in France, 1945-1995 (1998) and Gender and French Cinema (2001), as well as volumes on Jean-Luc Godard including The Cinema Alone (2000), For Ever Godard (2004), and Jean-Luc Godard: Documents (2006). He is currently completing a book entitled Space and Being in Contemporary French Cinema for Manchester University Press.
