Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the MediaBritish Film Institute, 2001 - 322 pages First study of cinema, media and the Balkan wars; Wide-ranging view of politics and culture of the region; The break-up of Yugoslavia triggered a truly international film-making project. Underground, Ulysses' Gaze, Before the Rain, Pretty Village, Pretty Flame and Welcome to Sarajevo were amongst a host of films created as the conflicts in the region unravelled. These conflicts restored the Balkans as a centrepiece of Western imagery and the media (especially cinema) assumed a leading but ambiguous role in defining it for global consumption through a narrow range of selectively defined images. Simultaneously, a lot of the high-quality cinematic and television work made in the region (much of it discussed in this book) remains relatively unknown. Cinema of Flames attempts to go deeper than the imagery and address some of the general concerns of the cross-cultural representation and self-representation of the Balkans: narrative strategies within the context of Balkan exclusion from the European cultural sphere, the cosmopolitan image of Sarejevo, diaspora, and the representations of villains, victims, women, and ethnic minorities, all considered in the general context of Balkan cinema. 'encyclopaedic in scope and brilliance, making excellent use of the scholarly literature whilst interweaving analysis of films and other mass media. The book will be a superb addition to the literatures on Bosnia and Yugoslavia. It will also serve as a standard reference on Balkans film.' Robert Hayden (University of Pittsburgh) |
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Page 80
... Aleksandar returns to his native village in Macedonia , a place he had left eighteen years earlier . Although he is welcomed by members of his extended family , he soon learns that the village , once a peaceful haven where Albanians and ...
... Aleksandar returns to his native village in Macedonia , a place he had left eighteen years earlier . Although he is welcomed by members of his extended family , he soon learns that the village , once a peaceful haven where Albanians and ...
Page 81
... Aleksandar encounters here confirms his worst fear . One of his relatives is stabbed with a pitchfork . It seems he sexually violated Zamira , who retaliated by stabbing him . The family members pursue the Albanian girl , determined to ...
... Aleksandar encounters here confirms his worst fear . One of his relatives is stabbed with a pitchfork . It seems he sexually violated Zamira , who retaliated by stabbing him . The family members pursue the Albanian girl , determined to ...
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... Aleksandar's experiences the focal point of the whole story . He returns to Macedonia haunted by the memory of his own ordeal in ' taking sides . He has witnessed the death of an innocent man ; but it is not just about witnessing - it ...
... Aleksandar's experiences the focal point of the whole story . He returns to Macedonia haunted by the memory of his own ordeal in ' taking sides . He has witnessed the death of an innocent man ; but it is not just about witnessing - it ...
Contents
Are the Balkans Admissible? The Discourse | 29 |
Narrating the Balkans | 55 |
Narrative and Putative History | 71 |
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