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...
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...
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...
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 ...
