Sylvie Lindeperg is a historian whose research explores the relationship between cinema, history, and memory. A member of the Institut Universitaire de France, her books include Les Écrans de l’ombre (1997/2014), La Voie des Images (2013), and Night and Fog: a Film in History, which appeared in English in 2014. She is coauthor of the documentaries Face aux Fantômes (Jean-Louis Comolli, 2008) and Après la Nuit: Traces Filmées de la Résistance (Ginette Lavigne, 2014) and runs the Center for Research in Film History and Aesthetics at Paris 1.

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