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Janet Bergstrom
Janet Bergstrom, research professor of cinema and media studies, UCLA, followed Chantal Akerman’s work since her retrospective at Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive in November 1976. A founding co-editor of Camera Obscura, her essay on Jeanne Dielman and part of a group interview appeared there in 1977. She published ‘Chantal Akerman: Splitting’ in her anthology Endless Night: Cinema and Psychoanalysis, Parallel Histories (University of California Press, 1999), ‘Keeping a distance: Chantal Akerman and the spirit of the 1970s’ in Sight and Sound and ‘Heartfelt’, following Akerman’s death, in Senses of Cinema. Bergstrom specializes in archivally based, cross-national studies of directors such as Murnau, Renoir, Sternberg and Hitchcock. She has published five visual essays along the same lines on DVD.