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The Films of Pedro Costa
Producing and Consuming Contemporary Art Cinema
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Book Presentation:
Examines the film aesthetics and authorship practices of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, within a production context
• Investigates the cultural, industrial and economic contexts from which Costa’s working practices emerged
• Offers a contextualisation of Costa’s filmmaking under different settings and practices including, among others, Portuguese national cinema and European film production, the use of digital video, the international film festival circuit, and the current synergies between cinema and art gallery production and exhibition practices
• Provides a fresh critical analysis on the nuanced and multifaceted production and consumption mechanisms taking place in contemporary art cinema
This is the first English-language study of internationally acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, examining the cultural, production and exhibition contexts of his feature films, shorts and video installations. It situates Costa’s filmmaking within the contexts of Portuguese, European and global art film, looking into his working practices alongside the impact of digital video, forms of collaborative authorship, and the intricate dialogue between modes of production and aesthetics.
Considering the exhibition, circulation and reception of Costa’s creative output in settings such as film festivals, the art gallery circuit and the home video market, ReFocus: The Films of Pedro Costa provides an essential critical analysis of this major filmmaker – as well as of the multifaceted production and consumption practices that surround contemporary art cinema.
About the Author:
Nuno Barradas Jorge is a Teaching Associate in Film and Television Studies in the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at The University of Nottingham. He is the co-editor, with Tiago de Luca, of Slow Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2016). His work appeared in, among others, the journal Adaptation and in the anthologies Migration in Lusophone Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Global Portuguese Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2017).
Press Reviews:
The book is meticulously researched [...] Jorge’s book will undoubtedly inspire further interest in the networks sustaining art cinema.– Thomas Moran, Monash University, Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies
Anybody interested either in Costa’s work or in the contexts within which it exists will find in the breadth and depth of the material presented in The Films of Pedro Costa an invaluable resource.– Dominic Lash, University of Bristol, Studies in European Cinema
Even if you’ve seen only one Pedro Costa film, you know what they are all like: their special rhythm, sound, look and feeling. Nuno Barradas Jorge’s important study takes us further, into a detailed account of the films’ production, exhibition and reception. Costa’s art cinema is formed in these layers.– Prof. Adrian Martin, Monash University
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See the complete filmography of Pedro Costa on the website: IMDB ...
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