About the Author

Sébastien Lefait is Lecturer in English at the University of Corsica. Besides articles about films and about Shakespeare’s plays, he has published articles about the new forms of film adaptation. His current research focuses on the use of surveillance in films and TV series, in which he sees a socio-analytical instrument and an aesthetic tool. He is currently finishing a book on the subject, to be released in 2012.Philippe Ortoli is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Corsica, after teaching at university level at Paris VII, Poitiers, Aix-en-Provence and Lyons. A regular author of publications on film, he has just finished a volume, Le Musée imaginaire de Quentin Tarantino (Corlet/Cerf, 7ème art).

Reviews

“Having co-organized and co-hosted Professors Philippe Ortoli and Sébastien Lefait’s symposium on Bastardy in Cinema at Paris X University in 2011, I hereby testify that this volume, which is based on the proceedings of the conference, is a selection of high quality papers. I can highly recommend the work, which should make for an original and hopefully highly sellable book on the intriguing notion of bastardy on screen.”– Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris, Professor of American Literature and Anglophone Cinema, University of Paris X-Nanterre