Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the MediaBloomsbury Publishing, 2019 M07 25 - 320 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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... live by them. All of this, I believed, was keeping them from leaping forward to an era in which the neat and pretty dreams of democracy and affluence, put on hold indefinitely by communism, could be fulfilled. Everything that people in ...
... live by them. All of this, I believed, was keeping them from leaping forward to an era in which the neat and pretty dreams of democracy and affluence, put on hold indefinitely by communism, could be fulfilled. Everything that people in ...
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... live through involuntary ethnic parting, and of the peculiar twists that came about in the course of people's resistance to the forced taking of sides. I show how the logic of forced choices of ethnic belonging led to a situation where ...
... live through involuntary ethnic parting, and of the peculiar twists that came about in the course of people's resistance to the forced taking of sides. I show how the logic of forced choices of ethnic belonging led to a situation where ...
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... I show how the trademark atmosphere of lost homelands and shattered identities is gradually replaced by new visions that permit the migrants to gain control over their otherwise disrupted lives and to see themselves as subjects of.
... I show how the trademark atmosphere of lost homelands and shattered identities is gradually replaced by new visions that permit the migrants to gain control over their otherwise disrupted lives and to see themselves as subjects of.
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Balkan Film, Culture and the Media Dina Iordanova. otherwise disrupted lives and to see themselves as subjects of new and fulfilling experiences. This book aims to be of interest to audiences beyond narrow specialist circles, and is ...
Balkan Film, Culture and the Media Dina Iordanova. otherwise disrupted lives and to see themselves as subjects of new and fulfilling experiences. This book aims to be of interest to audiences beyond narrow specialist circles, and is ...
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... live up to that demanding model' (ibid., p. 22). In his view, the metaphor of a fall from cultural grace is an attribute of the national self-image. In this context, the interpretation given to Turks (and therefore Islam) becomes ...
... live up to that demanding model' (ibid., p. 22). In his view, the metaphor of a fall from cultural grace is an attribute of the national self-image. In this context, the interpretation given to Turks (and therefore Islam) becomes ...
Contents
Narrative and Putative History | |
Balkan Film and History The Politics of Historical | |
Kusturicas Underground Historical Allegory | |
Taking Sides | |
Villains and Victims | |
Representing Womens Concerns | |
Gypsies Looking at Them Defining Oneself | |
Visions of Sarajevo The World Comes to the Balkans | |
Migrating Mind and Expanding Universe The Balkans | |
Aftermath? Fragmentary Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Filmography | |
Violence Violated Trust Indoctrination Self | |
Index | |
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