Catherine Russell is a distinguished professor at Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Her current research interests include archiveology and Indigenous Canadian remix films, experimental film and Hollywood cinema.
Among her publications are Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices (Durham 2018), Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited (New York 2011), “Dialectical Film Criticism: Walter Benjamin’s Historiography, Cultural Critique and the Archive,” Transformations No.15 (2007). http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_15/article_08.shtml