Mythopoetic Cinema: On the Ruins of European Identity (Columbia University Press, 2017) by Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, professor of cinema and digital media, gives a close reading of such films as Alexander Sokurov’s "Russian Ark" (2002) and Jean-Luc Godard’s "Notre Musique" (2004), and demonstrates the ways in which the filmmakers engage and evaluate the recent reconceptualization of Europe’s borders, mythic figures and identity paradoxes.

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli is a film and media scholar whose work focuses on representations and theorizations of violence in film, media, and social media. She has worked on the question of nation building, ethnocentrism and sexual violence in the Balkans and Eastern Europe; Nazism, Fascism and the Holocaust; Surveillance and social media; Digital art and experimental cinema and the uncanny; and the emergence of new forms of politics through social media.

She is the author of The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2001), Mythopoetic Cinema: On the Ruins of European Identity (Columbia University Press, 2017), and is currently working on a new book project entitled Digital Uncanny (forthcoming from Oxford University Press) that examines how digital technologies, particularly software systems working through massive amount of data, are transforming the meaning of the uncanny that Freud tied to a return of repressed memories, desires, and experiences to their anticipation.

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