Imagined Cityscapes and Material Landscapes: The Urban and Rural of <em>Barbarian</em>

Minkova, Slaveya

Slaveya Minkova

Slaveya Minkova is a scholar with an interest in media theory/praxis based in Los Angeles. She is a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA, and her research examines the complexities of postsocialist aesthetics within an emergent mode of media production associated with globalized film and television industries in South East Europe. Her dissertation project takes the space of the film studio as its main object of study, considering the relationship between studio and city, the geopolitics of international/ transnational sets, and the material conditions of digital media labor.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 9June 20, 2024<June 20, 2024

Imagined Cityscapes and Material Landscapes: The Urban and Rural of Barbarian

Slaveya Minkova

What happens when Detroit is reproduced in Bulgaria for a horror film? Slaveya Minkova examines the abandoned set of Barbarian and unpacks the complex connections and displacements between American cityscape and Bulgarian landscape created by globalized media production.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 9June 17, 2024<June 17, 2024

Media In-Between: Introduction

Zizi Li and Slaveya Minkova

In their introduction to the dossier, Zizi Li and Slaveya Minkova reflect on the concept of the "In-Between" as a framework for thinking about media, space, and place.