Author Archive for: ‘Violetta Petrova’

Therese Davis, The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition & Spectatorship. Bristol: IntellectLtd., 2004. ISBN: 1 841500 084 4 192pp UK£19.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Intellect books) The media un-anaesthetisised: face, transience, and the site of meaning The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition & Spectatorship is a surprising and unusual book in its choice of critical object. It invites …

Rosalind Galt, Redrawing the Map: The New European Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 231 13717 6 US$24.50 (pb) 352pp (Review copy supplied by Columbia University Press) Cartography of emotions: History, space and Identity in the New European Cinema In The Art of the Novel Milan Kundera defines Europe not so much as a territory but as a spiritual …

Robert Bird, Andrei Rublev. London: BFI Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 038 X 87pp £9.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing) THE BURNING NARRATIVE: ICON AND AXE IN TARKOVSKY’S ANDREI RUBLEV Tarkovsky’s work, which includes only seven films made between 1962 and 1986, is surrounded by a growing body of critical texts, testifying to the fact that this director’s films …

The Cinema of the Other Europe. Re-opening the question. Dina Iordanova, Cinema of the Other Europe: The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Film London & New York: Wallflower Press, 2003. ISBN: 1 903364 61 2 224pp UK£14.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) In 1992, soon after the Eastern European “velvet revolutions”, Catherine Portuges noted that “to …

Marvin D’Lugo, Pedro Almodóvar. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006 ISBN-10: 0-252-07361-4 US$19.95 (pb) 192pp (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois Press) Auteur on the Global Scene: Pedro Almodóvar’s Geocultural Strategies It is no secret that the public persona of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar is built on a series of oxymorons. An enfant terrible of Spanish cinema, he is also …

Dina Iordanova, Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media. London: BFI publishing, 2001. ISBN 0 85170 8471 322 pp US$27.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI) Uploaded 25 July 2002 Rethinking the Balkans There is, probably, no better time for a book on Balkan film and media to appear. After a decade of crises, amidst the ambiguity of …

Roger Hillman, Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, and Ideology. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 2 53 21754 7 219pp US$19.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Indiana University Press) History on the soundtrack: an archaeology of reception, cultural politics and identity in the New German cinema About twenty years ago Claude Levi-Strauss claimed that “music is language …