PATRICK FUERY is the author of Theories of Desire (Melbourne University Press, 1995) and co-author of Cultural Studies and the New Humanities (Oxford University Press, 1997). He has taught film studies and cultural theory at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in New Zealand (Otago University), the UK (Essex University and Royal Holloway College) and Australia (Macquarie University, Curtin University, University of Melbourne and Murdoch University). He is currently Reader in Film and Critical Theory at Royal Holloway College, University of London.