Kaja Silverman is Class of l940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of James Coleman (2002), World Spectators (Stanford, 2000), Speaking About Godard (1998), The Threshold of the Visual World (1996), Male Subjectivity at the Margins (1992), The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (1988), and The Subject of Semiotics (1983).