An Interview with Daniel Yacavone
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films
Routledge have just published their massive Encyclopedia of Films, which contains four extensive entries by Dr David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922-1938
Dr Xuelei Huang, Chancellor’s Fellow in Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, has published a new book on filmmaking in Shanghai from the 1920s to the late 1930s.
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Film Newsletter – Summer 2014
We are happy to launch our new Film Newsletter which will keep everyone up to date with our activities. Continue reading “Film Newsletter – Summer 2014”
Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema
Columbia University Press has announced the upcoming publication of a new book by University of Edinburgh Film Studies lecturer, Dr Daniel Yacavone.
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Work in Cinema: Labor and the Human Condition
David Sorfa contributes an article on the representation of sex and work in Czech cinema to this volume edited by Ewa Mazierska:
Sorfa, D. (2013). Beyond Work and Sex in Czech Cinema. In E. Mazierska (Ed.), Work in Cinema: Labor and the Human Condition. (pp. 133-150). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Extract: “My contention is that while overt prostitution as represented in film has been discussed extensively in a number of recent books (Brown, Iordanova and Torchin, 2010; Loshitzky, 2010) – almost always in conjunction with considerations surrounding trafficking and the transnational (harking back to the debates around white slavery at the beginning of the last century) – less has been said about the more banal everyday forms of sexual exchange that mark life more generally in contemporary Europe. I concentrate here on Czech cinema since the country occupies a liminal space between East and West both geographically and historically. I discuss two important films from the 1960s Czech New Wave, Loves of a Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky, 1965) by Miloš Forman, and Daisies (Sedmikrásky,1966) by Vera Chytilová, before moving on to consider the film versions of the most successful contemporary Czech novelist, Michael Viewegh.”