Moving Verses

Reviews / Votes

'Moving Verses: Poetry on Screen in Argentine Cinema breaks new ground in a relatively little-studied interdiscipline sitting at the nexus of poetry and film. It sheds significant light on the many pathways by which the two genres of practice intersect, with particular attention paid to what poetry affords to film.'
Rebecca Kosick, University of Bristol 'This is a thoroughly researched and original work, which presents detailed and persuasive studies of films that have not previously received sufficient attention from scholars. Through its rigorous focus on encounters between poetry and film, Bollig's book makes a significant contribution to debates on intermediality and experimental cinema both in Latin America and elsewhere.'
Paul Merchant, University of Bristol 'Moving Verses is a thoughtful reflection on the interplay between film and poetry... an excellent read for anyone interested in Argentine cinema and poetry, experimental cinema, and more broadly, in the question of intermediality as it applies to film.' Eduardo Ledesma, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 'Moving Verses is an excellent and original contribution to the study of cinema and the Argentine poetry of the last fifty years that also offers hermeneutic and methodological tools to those interested in exploring issues of intermediality in Latin America and beyond.' Ignacio Aguilo, Hispanic Research Journal 'A highlight is Bollig's discussion of Santiago Loza's Rosa Patria on the heterodox life and work of Nestor Perlongher, who fiercely resisted identitary and gender/genre categorization... Bollig's overarching argument, as well as his careful close readings of films, makes for a compelling and much-needed contribution to the field of intermedial studies.' Erin Graff Zivin, Modern Language Review