Zulfia Karimova came to Britain from Bashkortostan, Russia. Having done PhDs in Moscow and Manchester, she teaches sociology and criminology at Teesside University, UK. Passionate about films since childhood, she writes about representation of trauma in film with particular interest in Bresson, Bergman, and Tarkovsky. 
Bergman’s Women: The Representation of Patriarchy and Class in Persona (1967) and Cries and Whispers (1972)
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Rich Boy”
