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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... footage that was discovered by accident in the archive of Belgrade TV by researchers for Yugoslavia: The Death of a Nation (1995). This same documentary was itself edited and rebroadcast in the UK during the Kosovo war, INTRODUCTION 3.
... footage that was discovered by accident in the archive of Belgrade TV by researchers for Yugoslavia: The Death of a Nation (1995). This same documentary was itself edited and rebroadcast in the UK during the Kosovo war, INTRODUCTION 3.
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... Belgrade (Ubistvo s predumišljajem/ Premeditated Murder, 1995; Dupe od mramora/Marble Ass, 1995), on committed journalists (Welcome to Sarajevo; Comanche Territory), on the difficult choices in taking sides (Before the Rain;Pretty ...
... Belgrade (Ubistvo s predumišljajem/ Premeditated Murder, 1995; Dupe od mramora/Marble Ass, 1995), on committed journalists (Welcome to Sarajevo; Comanche Territory), on the difficult choices in taking sides (Before the Rain;Pretty ...
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... Belgrade, revealed a great deal about the state of mind of ordinary Serbs and provided more social insights than any other piece of investigative journalism. Films like Ghetto (1995), another production of the dissident Studio B92 ...
... Belgrade, revealed a great deal about the state of mind of ordinary Serbs and provided more social insights than any other piece of investigative journalism. Films like Ghetto (1995), another production of the dissident Studio B92 ...
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... Belgrade, Subotica and Bitolja. In 1995, a special series called 'Sarajevo Film Days' was organised in Zagreb. Sarajevans themselves were quite active in scheduling film events and there were several organised during the siege by ...
... Belgrade, Subotica and Bitolja. In 1995, a special series called 'Sarajevo Film Days' was organised in Zagreb. Sarajevans themselves were quite active in scheduling film events and there were several organised during the siege by ...
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... Belgrade in the winter of 1997, reported that Centuries of domination by the Ottoman Turks and a cultural affinity with Orthodox Russia have not instilled an intuitive grasp of democratic principles among the Balkan peoples. What's ...
... Belgrade in the winter of 1997, reported that Centuries of domination by the Ottoman Turks and a cultural affinity with Orthodox Russia have not instilled an intuitive grasp of democratic principles among the Balkan peoples. What's ...
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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