Colin Gardner is assistant professor in the Art Studio and Film Studies departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Working at the intersection of film and art theory, he has published widely, including an essay on Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces in Jack Nicholson: Movie Top Ten (Creation Publishing Group, 2000), an essay on Diderot in The Position of the Author (Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1993), and theatrical studies on Diana Thater's video installations in Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2000).