Polona Petek

University of Ljubljana, Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, Faculty Member

University of Ljubljana, Department of Sociology, Research Fellow

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Address: Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television / Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo
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Books by Polona Petek

Echo and Narcissus: Echolocating the Spectator in the Age of Audience Research

Echo and Narcissus: Echolocating the Spectator in the Age of Audience Research came about as a re... more Echo and Narcissus: Echolocating the Spectator in the Age of Audience Research came about as a response to the recent shift of focus in the studies of cinema. While the seventies and the eighties were marked by increasingly complex theorisations of spectatorship, the last two decades have witnessed a turn towards ethnographic research into film reception. However, this long overdue turn towards the empirical viewer has not produced a genuinely broader scope of analysis. It has rather, all too hastily, consigned the spectator, a textually constructed viewing position, to oblivion, thanks to the concept’s perceived hegemonic and totalising premise. Echo and Narcissus intervenes into this state of affairs by arguing for a productive nexus between theorisations of spectatorship and the currently more fashionable audience research. Petek maintains that an informed mapping of contemporary (and past) filmviewing practices still requires a spectatorial model and she offers such a model through a re-reading of Ovid’s tale of Echo and Narcissus. She demonstrates that the myth’s central role in traditional theorisations of spectatorship has not yet been properly reflected upon. Her critical recuperation of the Ovidian myth provides a revised model of the spectator—one with discursive access to all types of cinema, yet, flexible enough to accommodate a range of viewers’ responses and their cultural diversity.

Papers by Polona Petek

Film, radio in televizija med pandemijo

Čefurji raus! Večkulturna zamišljanja slovenske identitete v knjigi in filmu

Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Mar 21, 2019

Women in the Way? Re-reading The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Slovenian Cinema

Re-reading the Monstrous-Feminine

La Fille Mal Gardée: Film Between Artistic Freedom and Selective Memory

Ars & Humanitas

Over the past decade, the social sciences have witnessed an upsurge of interest in explorations o... more Over the past decade, the social sciences have witnessed an upsurge of interest in explorations of memory as it relates to the consolidation of nations, formation of new states and post-conflict reconstruction. In this context, remembrance is a process based on asymmetric power relations: selected collective perceptions of the dominant community are usually promoted, whereas the memories of non-dominant (minority) communities remain marginalised or they are perceived as opposing, even hostile “others”. This article seeks to broaden the prevailing focus in social sciences by employing an interdisciplinary approach to discuss the controversial Russian film Matilda (dir. Alexei Uchitel, 2017), a costume drama about the love affair between the future Tsar Nikolai II and prima ballerina Matilda Feliksovna Kschessinskaya, and its reception in the Russian Federation and elsewhere. The article focuses on the issue of conflict between artistic freedom and the process of remembrance in the fo...

La Fille Mal Gardée: Film Between Artistic Freedom and Selective Memory

Ars & Humanitas

12. Slovenia: A Small National Cinema in the Phase of Transnational Synergy

Contemporary Balkan Cinema, 2020

Slovenia: A Small National Cinema in the Phase of Transnational Synergy

Contemporary Balkan Cinema

The chapter on Slovenia maps a profound transformation that started taking place in Slovenian cin... more The chapter on Slovenia maps a profound transformation that started taking place in Slovenian cinema in the 2010s, namely the fact that both filmmaking and film culture at large have grown to become increasingly transnational and cosmopolitan. Through a discussion of the work of both established and emergent auteurs, the text identifies shared features and aesthetics. The chapter places emphasis on women as a prominent group on the rise not only among filmmakers, but also among decision-makers and educators. Aiming to present a broader picture of contemporary Slovenian film culture, the chapter also focuses on the country’s film festivals and the development of film education and scholarship.

The (M)Others of Slovenian Cinema? Gender, border-crossing and the conundrum of national cinema

Studies in European Cinema

I deserve the best and expect the best': Exploring Female Narcissism in Me myself and I

Asymmetry measurements are common in collider experiments and can sensitively probe particle prop... more Asymmetry measurements are common in collider experiments and can sensitively probe particle properties. Typically, data can only be measured in a finite region covered by the detector, so an extrapolation from the visible asymmetry to the inclusive asymmetry is necessary. Often a constant multiplicative factor is more than adequate for the extrapolation and this factor can be readily determined using simulation methods. However, there is a potential, avoidable pitfall involved in the determination of this factor when the asymmetry in the simulated data sample is small. We find that to obtain a reliable estimate of the extrapolation factor, the number of simulated events required rises as the inverse square of the simulated asymmetry; this can mean that an unexpectedly large sample size is required when determining its value.

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Highways, byways and dead ends: towards a non-Eurocentric cosmopolitanism through yugonostalgia and Slovenian cinema

New Review of Film and Television Studies, 2010

Highways, byways and dead ends: towards a non-Eurocentric cosmopolitanism through yugonostalgia and Slovenian cinema

New Review of Film and Television Studies, Jan 1, 2010

Kersnikova 32, Celje 3000, Slovenia This paper is a contribution to the debates about European in... more

The Death and Rebirth of Surrealism in Bohemia: Local Inflections and Cosmopolitan Aspirations in the Cinema of Jan Švankmajer

Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2009

The Death and Rebirth of Surrealism in Bohemia: Local Inflections and Cosmopolitan Aspirations in the Cinema of Jan vankmajer

Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Jan 1, 2009

ABSTRACT Since the mid 1980s Jan vankmajer&amp;amp;#x27;s work has attracted the attention o... more ABSTRACT Since the mid 1980s Jan vankmajer&amp;amp;#x27;s work has attracted the attention of connoisseurs and aficionados of surrealism across the globe. This essay complicates the idea of vankmajer&amp;amp;#x27;s universal surrealist appeal by considering it in its specific historical and geopolitical ...

Enabling collisions: Re-thinking multiculturalism through Fatih Akin's Gegen die Wand/Head On

Studies in European Cinema, Jan 1, 2007

... G??kt??rk has adopted the phrase &#x27;cinema of duty&#x27; coined by Sarita Malik (1... more ... G??kt??rk has adopted the phrase &#x27;cinema of duty&#x27; coined by Sarita Malik (1996) in relation to Black British cinema. ... punk popular in Germany in the eighties: we hear Nick Cave&#x27;s now defunct band The Birthday Party; there are songs performed by Alexander Hacke, Mona Mur and ...

'I deserve the best and I accept the best': Exploring Female Narcissism in Me Myself I

Journal of Australian Studies, Jan 1, 2003

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“Belles With Attitude. Genealogies of the new Hollywood wisecracking action heroine”

“Lešandrinke – Timelier Than Ever”

“What price success? Irony and accent in contemporary Russian cinema”

Echo and Narcissus: Echolocating the Spectator in the Age of Audience Research