From the Publisher
"Cinema and Language Loss is an extremely original, brilliantly argued, and persuasively developed work. It is written with wonderful lucidity, authority, and power, accomplishments made even more impressive by the extreme complexity of its subject matter and critical approach... The author's work on Freud and Kristeva should do much to open a new field on the importance of semiotic and linguistic approaches to film studies. The book should establish an immediate place for itself in critical film theory and philosophy, but of even greater importance is the place it should establish for itself in the opening of this important new approach based on a reconsideration of the relationship to language of our understanding of film." —Sam B. Girgus, Vanderbilt University, USA
"[Cinema and Language Loss] takes a novel approach to the topic [of migrant cinema] and expands our notions of how linguistic displacement is experienced cinematically... Mamula is an erudite writer, who is also clear and persuasive in her argumentation. She marshals an impressive amount of theory - from Freudian psychoanalysis, Kristevan semiotics, Bergson, Deleuze, Pasolini and various other film theorists and practitioners - to develop an original approach to the role of language and visuality in processing perception and memory during dislocation from the familiar and known." —Eva Rueschmann, Hampshire College, USA
