Publications
BOOKS
Screening the Art World (under contract with Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming in 2021)
The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime (Routledge, 2017)
Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology (Amsterdam University Press, Film Culture in Transition series, 2014)
European Film Theory, AFI Film Readers Series (Routledge, 2008)
The Image in French Philosophy (Rodopi, 2007)
Tourist (novel) (San Francisco: Black Scat Books, 2018)
Rewrite (novel) (Vancouver: NON Publishing, 2014)
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
Guest Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2020, special issue on European Identity in Cinema in the Era of Mass Migration, “Introduction,” pp.3-9
Book Review of Catherine Wheatley’s Stanley Cavell and Film: Skepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema (2019), Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind (Berghahn Books, Volume 14, Issue 3, Winter 2020, pages 115-119)
“Cinema and Photography,” Oxford Bibliographies (Oxford University Press, 2020), DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199791286-0329
“The Rhetoric of Madness in Realist Film Theory” in The Major Realist Film Theories, ed. Ian Aitken (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), pp.53-66
“Spotlight: Matteo Garrone,” European Independent Film Festival, June/July 2016, https://www.ecufilmfestival.com/spotlight-matteo-garrone/
“Neurocinematics: Reading the Brain/Film through the Film/Brain,” in a special issue on Audiovisual Studies and the Challenge of Neuroscience of Cinema & Cie: International Film Studies Journal, vol. XIV, No.22/23, Spring/Fall 2014, pp.27-39
“Man of Glass,” Special Issue ‘Scriptwriting as Creative Writing Research’ of TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, Number 29, April 2015 http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue29/Trifonova.pdf
“European Film Theory” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory, ed. Edward Branigan and Warren Buckland (New York: Routledge, 2015), pp. 167-172
“Redemption (Kracauer)” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory, ed. Edward Branigan and Warren Buckland (New York: Routledge, 2015), pp. 396-401
“From Allegorical Expressionism to Declined National Cinema” in East, West and Centre: Reframing post-1989 European Cinema, ed. Todd Herzog and Michael Gott (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), pp.127-147
“Cinematic Photography,” in Photography and Cinema: 50 years of Chris Markers’ La jetée, ed. Margarida Medeiros, Teresa Mendes Flores and Joana Cunha Leal (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015), pp.103-122
“The Production of Space from the Nouvelle Vague to the Franchise City Film,” Space and Culture, Vol. 16, Issue 1, February 2013, pp. 60-72
“Agency in the Cinematic Conspiracy Thriller,” SubStance, Vol. 41, No. 3, Issue 129 (2012), pp. 109-126; reprinted in a special issue of Rumores: Brazilian Journal of Communication Studies, vol.11, #22 (Fall 2017)
“Nouvelle Manga and Cinema,” Studies in Comics Vol. 3., No. 1, August 2012, pp.47-62; translated into French: “La Nouvelle Manga et le cinéma,” Les manfras, Alternative Francophone, Vol. 1, No 10 (2016), DOI : https://doi.org/10.29173/af28212
“The Twilight of the Index,” Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, No. 2 (2011), pp. 61-89
“Michael Haneke and the Politics of Film Form” in The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia, ed. Benjamin McCann and David Sorfa (Columbia University Press, 2012), pp.65-85
“Film and Skepticism: Stanley Cavell on the Ontology of Film,” Rivista di Estetica #46, (1/2011), ed. Domenico Spinosa, pp.197-219
“Between the National and the Transnational: Bulgarian Post-Communist Cinema,” Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Vol 2, Issue 2 (July 2011), pp. 211-227
“Pensiero Debole: Weak National Cinema,” Studies in European Cinema 8:1 (August 2011), pp.7-20.
“The Aesthetics and Politics of the Yakuza Sequel: Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill (1967) and Pistol Opera (2001)” in Genre in Asian Film and Television, ed. Angelina Karpovich and Felicia Chan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp.149-162. Nominated for the SCMS Best Essay in an Edited Collection Award
“Multiple Personality and the Discourse of the Multiple in Hollywood Cinema,” The European Journal of American Culture, Vol. 29, No. 2 (2010), pp. 145-171
“Photography and the Unconscious: The Construction of Pathology at the Fin de siècle,” CTheory: Theory beyond the Codes, 9/9/2010, http://ctheory.net/ctheory_wp/photography-and-the-unconscious-the-construction-of-pathology-at-the-fin-de-siecle/
“Cavell on Film and Skepticism,” The Aesthetic Dimensions of Visual Culture, ed. Ondrej Dadejik and Jakub Stejskal (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), pp. 135-146
“Code Unknown: European Identity in Cinema,” Scope, Issue 8, June 2007, https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/issues/2007/june-issue-08.aspx
“Stoned on Mars: Home and National Identity in Recent Bulgarian Cinema.” Cinéaste, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2007, pp. 32–36
“Distracted Cinema: Kracauer and Realist Film Discourse,” EXCAVATIO, Vol. XXII/1-2, 2007
“John Ford’s Funeral Oration: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” Senses of Cinema # 45, 2007, http://sensesofcinema.com/2007/cteq/liberty-valance-trifonova/
“Cinematic Cool: Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai,” Senses of Cinema #39, 2006, http://sensesofcinema.com/2015/cteq/samourai/
“Orson Welles’ The Trial,” Senses of Cinema #38, 2006, http://sensesofcinema.com/2006/cteq/trial/
“Mind and Body Snatchers: The Evolution of the Sci Fi Film Genre,” Film and Philosophy, Volume 9 (2005), pp.74-93
“Anti-Theatre on Film,” Scope, Issue #3, November 2005
“The Fantastic Redemption of Reality,” Quarterly Journal of Film and Video 23.1 (2005), pp.55-78
“Special Effects: Simulation in Cinema,” Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media, No. 21, Spring 2004, https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/kinema/article/view/1072
“A Nonhuman Eye: Deleuze on Cinema,” SubStance # 104, Vol.33, No.2, 2004, pp.134-152
“Is There a Subject in Hyperreality?” Postmodern Culture, Volume 13, Number 3 (2003), DOI: 10.1353/pmc.2003.0025
“Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man: The Origins of the Postmodern Sublime in the Ethical Evaluation of the Aesthetic,” Kritikos, Vol. 1, December 2004, https://intertheory.org/trifonova.htm
“The Question of the Appendix: The Kantian and the Inhuman Sublime,” International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 35, Issue 2 (2003), pp.51-92
“Matter-Image or Image-Consciousness: Bergson contra Sartre,” Janus Head 6.1 (Spring 2003), pp. 80-114
“Time and Point of View in Contemporary Cinema,” CineAction #58 (2002), pp.11-31
“The Poetry of Matter: Bergson and Stevens,” The Wallace Stevens Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Spring 2002), pp.41-69
“Saving Nietzsche’s Anti-egalitarianism from Postmodernism,” book review of Fredrick Appel’s Nietzsche contra Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1999), theory@buffalo #6, 2001
“The Gaze of Blanchot through the Lens of Heidegger,” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2000), pp. 21-48
