Alexander Horwath is a curator and writer, and the director of the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna. He organized the film exhibitions of Documenta 12 (2007) and, during the 1990s, served as director of the Vienna International Film Festival. Among the publications he has written or (co-)edited are books about Michael Haneke, New Hollywood Cinema, and Peter Tscherkassky. His books on Peter Kubelka's cycle "What Is Film", Film Curatorship, and Josef von Sternberg's lost film The Case of Lena Smith are also available from CUP.

• Robert Beavers, Eileen Bowser, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Eve Heller, Ken Jacobs, Chuck Jones, Len Lye, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Groucho Marx, Paul Sharits, Don Siegel, P. Adams Sitney (contributions in English); Herbert Achternbusch, Ruth Beckermann, Dietmar Brehm, Paolo Caneppele, Serge Daney, Werner Duetsch, Helmut Färber, Harun Farocki, Friedrich Geyrhofer, Michael Glawogger, Fritz Göttler, Frieda Grafe, Erika Gregor, Ulrich Gregor, Friedl vom Gröller, Peter Hajek, Franz Hammerbacher, Fritz Herrmann, Peter Huemer, Daniéle Huillet, Vlado Kristl, Peter Kubelka, Friedrich Kurrent, Hans-Christian Leitich, Michael Loebenstein, Franz Manola, Michael Omasta, Marcel Ophuls, Enno Patalas, Claus Philipp, Reinhard Priessnitz, Bert Rebhandl, Eric Rohmer, Gottfried Schlemmer, Raoul Schmidt, Ulrich Seidl, Dominik Steiger, Ingeborg Strobl, Sissi Tax, Harry Tomicek, Peter Tscherkassky, Hans Winge, Ingo Zechner (contributions in German)