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 130
... reason for indifference , the preva- lent treatment of Kusturica was the benevolence that an artist of his stature seemed especially entitled to . " There is only one reason for me to make movies , ' Kusturica said in his acceptance ...
... reason for indifference , the preva- lent treatment of Kusturica was the benevolence that an artist of his stature seemed especially entitled to . " There is only one reason for me to make movies , ' Kusturica said in his acceptance ...
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... reason for the reluctance of the West to support Drašković as a legit- imate opposition leader in Serbia earlier in the 1990s . ) The mortar shells or the snipers of Sarajevo just do not fit the established image ; they are somehow felt ...
... reason for the reluctance of the West to support Drašković as a legit- imate opposition leader in Serbia earlier in the 1990s . ) The mortar shells or the snipers of Sarajevo just do not fit the established image ; they are somehow felt ...
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... reason Sarajevo's image had changed , so that the city was no longer to be per- ceived as a deeply provincial , sleepy oriental town , there is little reason to think it would be replaced by anything else but the summary image of large ...
... reason Sarajevo's image had changed , so that the city was no longer to be per- ceived as a deeply provincial , sleepy oriental town , there is little reason to think it would be replaced by anything else but the summary image of large ...
Contents
War in the Balkans Moving Images | 5 |
Are the Balkans Admissible? The Discourse | 29 |
Narrating the Balkans | 55 |
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