|
Principal Investigator, Dynamics of World Cinema
Phone: +44 (0)1334 467474
Email:
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
I am the University of St Andrews' first ever Chair in Film Studies.
Originally from Bulgaria, and having worked later on in Canada, US and England, my background is in philosophy and aesthetics. I have been involved with cultural and media studies since 1986 and with film studies since 1993. Many of my publications are in the area of Eastern European and Balkan cinema.
In more recent years, I have been working also on issues of transnational cinema, on the cinematic traditions of non-Western cultures, on cultural industries, on the transnational dynamics of culture and film, on film and history, on international cinema and identity, on Indian film, and on film festivals: all areas in which I would be happy to supervise PhD work.
I maintain a cinema blog at www.dinaview.com. I post on issues related to films and film festivals.
Click here for the full research profile.
Selected Publications
Monographs
Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media (London: British Film Institute, 2001).
Emir Kusturica (London: British Film Institute, 2002).
Cinema of the Other Europe: The Industry and the Artistry of East Central European Film (London: Wallflower, 2003).
Cinema of the Balkans (ed.) (London: Wallflower Press, 2006).
Forthcoming: Cinema at the Periphery (co-edited with David Martin-Jones and Belén Vidal), Wayne State University Press.
Guest Editor of Special Journal Issues
Framework: Journal of Film and Media. Special issue on Images of Romanies (Gypsies) in World Cinema. Wayne State University Press. Vol. 44/2. Fall 2003. 150 pp.
South Asian Popular Culture: Indian Cinema Abroad: Transnational Historiography of Cinematic Exchanges. Routledge, 2006. Vol. 4, No. 2. Author of Introduction (with D. Eleftheriotis). Widely reviewed in Indian media. 55,000 words.
Cineaste: Contemporary Balkan Cinema. Special supplement to Cineaste magazine (New York), sponsored by the Knowledge Transfer initiative of AHRC. June 2007. 60,000 words.
Kinokultura. Special issue on Bulgarian Cinema, Dec. 2006. 50,000 words.
Forthcoming: Special issue of Third Text on Romani representations.
Forthcoming: Special issue of Film International on Film Festivals, 2008.
Chapters in Edited Collections & Journal Articles
"Cashing in on Dracula: Eastern Europe's Hard Sells", Framework, Vol. 48, Nr. 1, Spring 2007. pp. 46-64.
"Showdown of the Festivals: Clashing Entrepreneurships and Post-Communist Management of Culture" in Film International, Vol. 4, Nr. 5, Issue 23. October 2006. pp. 25-38.
"Indian Cinema's Global Reach: Historiography through Testimony" in Journal of South Asian Popular Culture, Vol. 4, Nr. 2, October 2006. p. 113-140.
Book Chapters
"Transnational Cinema Studies," in The Cinema Book, Pam Cook (ed.). BFI, 2007.
"Bulgaria: Timid Provincialism and Isolation," in Small National Cinemas, D. Petrie and M. Hjort (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
"Curtain for Niche Cinema," in Progress Europe: Culture Report. Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, 2007 (also in French, German, Polish).
Current Research
In the period 2007/2008 I was on sabbatical leave. During this time I was working on a variety of projects, ranging from contributions to several edited collections to writing a monograph on film and history. I edited the Film Festivals Reader and co-edited the collection Cinema at the Periphery. I was based mostly in Paris, France, but also traveled to Hong Kong, Tokyo, Toronto, Montreal, Austin, and other places in connection with my research. I also launched several large scale research applications, which I expect to bring the means to allow for new funded PhD studentships.
Research Students
Currently I participate in the supervision of research students working on Balkan cinema, the representations of Russians in international film, and early cinema in Istanbul. I am the Department of Film Studies' coordinator for postgraduate matters.
In the next period, I would be interested in supervising doctoral projects in the following broadly defined areas: film festivals, international cinema, film industry, Eastern European, Russian and Balkan cinemas. |
