ReFocus: The Films of Pedro Costa

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).

• Figures Acknowledgements Introduction CHAPTER 1 – Cinema’s ‘Primitive Beauty’: Pedro Costa’s Artistic Formation and the Making of Blood (1989) CHAPTER 2 – Negotiating Filmmaking: Adaptation, Location and Docufiction CHAPTER 3 – Digital Filmmaking at the Interstices CHAPTER 4 – Critical Reception and the International Film Festival CHAPTER 5 – Between the Black Box and the White Cube CHAPTER 6 – Renegotiating circulation: retrospectives and DVD releases CHAPTER 7 – A ‘Document of Documents’: Authorship, Intertextuality and Politics in Horse Money (2014) Conclusion Bibliography Pedro Costa’s Filmography

The book is meticulously researched [...] Jorge’s book will undoubtedly inspire further interest in the networks sustaining art cinema.