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Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács

Bill Nichols & Michael Renov (eds.), Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011 ISBN: 0816648751 $US27.00 (pb) 320 pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) ‘From the Ruins of a Filmic Memory’ In this rich and detailed book about screen-artist Péter Forgács, various contributors call him by different names: artist-archivist, scribe, witness, …

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