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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... West. The Bosnian suffering was just a moving image caught on a videocassette or a .jpeg file on my desktop. I could choose whether – or not – to be exposed to it. At any moment, I could get instant relief from the feelings of guilt and ...
... West. The Bosnian suffering was just a moving image caught on a videocassette or a .jpeg file on my desktop. I could choose whether – or not – to be exposed to it. At any moment, I could get instant relief from the feelings of guilt and ...
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... West, celebrity experts would recite so many of the cold war clichés and come up with even more hateful ones? How come some in the West were choosing to shield themselves behind intricate rhetoric and were only concerned to contain the ...
... West, celebrity experts would recite so many of the cold war clichés and come up with even more hateful ones? How come some in the West were choosing to shield themselves behind intricate rhetoric and were only concerned to contain the ...
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... western part of the European continent. Nominally, the Balkans include Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania. Countries such as Croatia, Slovenia ... West European countries but 6 CINEMA OF FLAMES.
... western part of the European continent. Nominally, the Balkans include Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania. Countries such as Croatia, Slovenia ... West European countries but 6 CINEMA OF FLAMES.
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... West European countries but also to the Western hierarchies of values and lifestyles. Only occasionally is Europe referred to in this book in its geographical sense, mostly to point out the trivial fact that the Balkans happen to be ...
... West European countries but also to the Western hierarchies of values and lifestyles. Only occasionally is Europe referred to in this book in its geographical sense, mostly to point out the trivial fact that the Balkans happen to be ...
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... Western audience that I have good reasons to insist on an inclusive Balkan concept, such an endeavour is likely to face fierce resistance within the Balkan context itself. If one looks from the West, the Balkans are often perceived as ...
... Western audience that I have good reasons to insist on an inclusive Balkan concept, such an endeavour is likely to face fierce resistance within the Balkan context itself. If one looks from the West, the Balkans are often perceived as ...
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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