The Cinema of Paula Markovitch
Contested Marginality
- Author: Inela Selimović
- Book type: monograph of the film director
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- To be released: 30 oktober 2025
- Length: 216 pages
- Format: paperback / ebook
- Prize: $ 24.95
- Order book from: Amazon / Bol
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Blurb of the book about Paula Markovitch the Argentinean film director
A study of the intersection between marginality and sensescapes in Paula Markovitch’s films.
The Cinema of Paula Markovitchinvestigates the director’s explorations of differently marginalized dwellers and their sensescapes as a vital feature of her oeuvre. By inviting the viewer into the socioemotional layers of homeless sites, hospice-like spaces, assisted-suicide intersubjectivities, and political displacements, Markovitch revitalizes the complexity of the margins in novel and expansive ways. Such dynamically intertwined socioemotional and sensory engagements at and with the margins are conceptualized in the book as contested marginality. This concept refers to the complexly interpersonal and ostensibly unanticipated manifestations of agentic potential through sensory experiences in peripheric sites and circumstances. Such aesthetic considerations of the margins also bring to light fecund modes for broader sociocultural critiques in Markovitch’s films.
Inela Selimović is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Wellesley College. Selimović authored Affective Moments in the Films of Martel, Carri, and Puenzo (2018) and co-edited The Feeling Child: Affect and Politics in Latin American Literature and Film (2018).