ReFocus: The Films of Pedro Costa

Nuno Barradas Jorge is an Assistant Professor in Film and Media at the Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies, University of Nottingham. He has published ReFocus: The Films of Pedro Costa (2020). He is the co-editor, with Tiago de Luca, of Slow Cinema (2016). His work appeared in, among others, Portugal's Global Cinema (2017) and Migration in Lusophone Cinema (2014).

• 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.