Author Archive for: ‘Olivia Harsan’

Jacques Rancière, Béla Tarr, The Time After , Translated from French by Erik Beranek, Minneapolis: Univocal, 2013 ISBN: 9781937561154 US$19.95 (pb) 81pp Erik Beranek’s translation of Jacques Rancière’s Béla Tarr, The Time After could not have been published at a better time. What a great feat to accomplish – to decode the thoughts of a Marxist philosopher on the complex oeuvre of …

Dominique Nasta, Contemporary Romanian Cinema: The History of an Unexpected Miracle. London: Wallflower Press, 2013 ISBN: 9780231167451 US$26 (pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) With her latest book Contemporary Romanian Cinema: The History of an Unexpected Miracle, Dominique Nasta joins a circle of prominent thinkers from Yvette Bíró to Dina Iordanova in the serious study of Eastern European …

András Bálint Kovács, The Cinema of Béla Tarr: The Circle Closes London: Wallflower Press, (2013) ISBN: 978-0-231-16531-0 AU$39.95 (pb) 183pp  (Review copy supplied by Footprint Books) He was used to the idea of being an outsider and accepted this marginalised position. (Kovács, 10) Commencing the seemingly impossible feat of deciphering the films of Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr deserves a special kind …