Screen Memories: The Hungarian Cinema of Márta Mészáros. (Presentation copy: signed by author Catherine Portuges to Judy Stone with the inscription: “... as promised in Toronto, September 2001”.)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. Autographed. 8vo. 190 pp. Very Good. Soft Cover. Illustrated paper wraps. Minor shelf wear. B&W plates throughout. Signed on half title page, with author’s business card taped alongside.
Explores the culture of post-Stalinist Eastern Europe through a detailed study of the achievements of its foremost woman director, Márta Mészáros. Informed by contemporary debates in film theory, psychoanalysis, and gender studies, this book foregrounds autobiographical and artistic elements of Márta Mészáros’s cinema.
ISBN: 9780253345585 9780253207821.
Provenance: from the Estate of Judy Stone (1924 –2017), The San Francisco Chronicle’s movie critic who for two decades was a passionate and articulate advocate for the world of cinema outside Hollywood. Judy Stone started at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1961, putting in 10 years as editor of the Datebook section. She began reviewing films for the paper in 1971, favoring arthouse films.
She was the youngest of four politically minded children whose eldest brother was the great reporter and gadfly I. F. Stone.
She won the Novikoff Award given for "enhancing the public's appreciation of world cinema.” Among her publications are “The Mystery of B. Traven” and "Eye on the World,” a collection of her interviews with filmmakers from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Contents:
1. Introduction --
2. A Cinematic Autobiography: The Documentaries --
3. Family Romances: The Early Features --
4. Lovers and Workers: The Gendered State --
5. Between Worlds: The International Coproductions --
6. Re-Reading History: The Diary Trilogy --
7. Tales for the Future --
Interviews With Marta Meszaros. Item #18-9242
Price: $95.00