![]() ![]() They are about a century which was shaped less by the technological advancements which brought mankind to the Moon and more by the catastrophes which unfolded on unprecedented scale across the world. Ultimately, the immaterial archaeologies of Film, Hot War Traces and Cold War Spaces are about war in its most inflamed, bloodied, unfaltering and cruel forms. The passing of time and cultural and political flows have shaped my reading of filmic spaces through a process consisting of digging through layers of history and depictions of place. The focus of my book is on the aftermath of traumatic events and on the ways in which film can capture the locations of historical incidents at the time of their happening or moments, days, weeks, months, and years afterwards. Similarly, I have an enduring interest in the ways in which events unfolding across the world and over a long period of time can be linked by means of film. I’m fascinated by the impact of film on the creation of a shared memory by imagination of historical events which we have not witnessed first-hand. ![]() Journey to Poland was published in 2018 and soon after that I began working on a new book and started a journey which has taken me to trenches, ruins of villages and civic buildings, abandoned death and concentration camps, city streets, forests and sports venues, to the places which I have investigated across the eight chapters of my book. ![]() In the previous volume, Journey to Poland: Documentary Landscapes of the Holocaust, I have mapped the unfolding of the Holocaust in Poland through a wide range of documentaries and with a focus on the places which were destroyed in the process of the genocide and the sites which were built or repurposed by the Nazis for the annihilation of the Jews. By Maurizio Cinquegrani Copies of Maurizio Cinquegrani’s booksįilm, Hot War Traces and Cold War Spaces was released in August by Edinburgh University Press it’s my second book with the publisher. ![]()
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