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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... , France and Argentina. Tudja Amerika/Someone Else's America (1995) was written and directed by Serbs, and told the story of exiles from Montenegro and Spain who lived in New York but who WAR IN THE BALKANS – MOVING IMAGES 11.
... , France and Argentina. Tudja Amerika/Someone Else's America (1995) was written and directed by Serbs, and told the story of exiles from Montenegro and Spain who lived in New York but who WAR IN THE BALKANS – MOVING IMAGES 11.
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... American Harvey Keitel, Swede Erland Josephson and Romanian Maia Morgenstern. Major European directors turned their attention to the Balkans: some to enjoy acclaim, like Goran Paskaljevic ́ with his Powder Keg, some to stir controversy ...
... American Harvey Keitel, Swede Erland Josephson and Romanian Maia Morgenstern. Major European directors turned their attention to the Balkans: some to enjoy acclaim, like Goran Paskaljevic ́ with his Powder Keg, some to stir controversy ...
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... American documentaries were made independently and received little exposure, mostly seen at festivals or at ... America and barely touched on the Bosnian crisis.18 After 1993, films related to the war in former Yugoslavia started ...
... American documentaries were made independently and received little exposure, mostly seen at festivals or at ... America and barely touched on the Bosnian crisis.18 After 1993, films related to the war in former Yugoslavia started ...
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... American New Yorker (they currently carry Forever Mozart, Underground and Vukovar: Poste Restante) or October Films (they distribute Someone Else's America). There were also some paradoxes: with a few exceptions, films made by ...
... American New Yorker (they currently carry Forever Mozart, Underground and Vukovar: Poste Restante) or October Films (they distribute Someone Else's America). There were also some paradoxes: with a few exceptions, films made by ...
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... American studies that claim to deal with Balkan cinema as an entity, both of which are by Michael J. Stoil (1974, 1982). However, they do not systematically concentrate on the subject matter, widely use cold war rhetoric and speculate ...
... American studies that claim to deal with Balkan cinema as an entity, both of which are by Michael J. Stoil (1974, 1982). However, they do not systematically concentrate on the subject matter, widely use cold war rhetoric and speculate ...
Contents
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Part 2 Commitments Amid Strife | 87 |
Part 3 People | 173 |
Part 4 Spaces | 233 |
Bibliography | 283 |
Filmography | 300 |
Index | 318 |
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