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Author Polona Petek

Polona Petek

Polona Petek has a PhD in Cinema Studies from the University of Melbourne. Her first monograph, Echo and Narcissus: Echolocating the Spectator in the Age of Audience Research (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), argues for a productive nexus between theorisations of spectatorship and the currently more fashionable audience research. Petek’s latest research focuses on the changes in cinema brought about by globalisation and turbomobility, particularly in European cinema.

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The Cinema of Small Nations edited by Mette Hjort and Duncan Petrie

Polona Petek
August 2008
Book Reviews
Film scholarship is undergoing a paradigm shift. In the past decade or so, a significant body of work has emerged, which reflects the opinion that the nation-state – once the undisputed primary unit of economic...
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Reinventing European Cinema Studies? The New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map by Rosalind Galt and Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie by Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli

Polona Petek
May 2007
Book Reviews
The focus on European cinema is hardly a new development in film scholarship. European filmmakers and European national cinemas have been on the agenda of cinema studies ever since the inception of the discipli...
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Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies, Volume 1: Secret Agents by Tom Cohen

Polona Petek
February 2006
Book Reviews
American scholar Tom Cohen, whose areas of expertise include literature, cinema and cultural studies, gained international reputation with the publication of his first monograph, Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitc...
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History Films, Women, and Freud’s Uncanny by Susan E. Linville

Polona Petek
July 2005
Book Reviews
In her second monograph, Susan E. Linville, the author of Feminism, Film, Fascism: Women's Auto/Biographical Film in Postwar Germany (1), takes on a timely topic – the obsession of recent Hollywood cinema with ...

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