Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland Barthes

Karen Beckman is the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Associate Professor of Film Studies in the department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is the director of the program in Cinema Studies. She is also one of the editors of Grey Room. She is the author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film and Feminism (Duke University Press, 2003), and coeditor of two volumes: Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography with Jean Ma (Duke University Press, 2008) and Picture This! Photography and Literature with Liliane Weissberg (forthcoming). She is currently completing a book about car crashes and film.