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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Page 7
... Yugoslavia has, no doubt, had serious repercussions on all the other Balkan countries. Many of the phenomena we witness in the former Yugoslavia – such as the malicious ... Yugoslav examples, it can often WAR IN THE BALKANS – MOVING IMAGES 7.
... Yugoslavia has, no doubt, had serious repercussions on all the other Balkan countries. Many of the phenomena we witness in the former Yugoslavia – such as the malicious ... Yugoslav examples, it can often WAR IN THE BALKANS – MOVING IMAGES 7.
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... Yugoslav breakup enhanced the isolation of the region. The Balkans gravitated from a dreary unpredictable outpost of the old Soviet Empire toward a gloomy orientalist fringe of the new Europe. Within a short time, they became more ...
... Yugoslav breakup enhanced the isolation of the region. The Balkans gravitated from a dreary unpredictable outpost of the old Soviet Empire toward a gloomy orientalist fringe of the new Europe. Within a short time, they became more ...
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... Yugoslavia and the overall crisis in the Balkans during the 1990s. Even after completing an annotated filmography ... Yugoslav breakup. Territorio comanche/Comanche Territory (1997), for example, told a story about Sarajevo but was a ...
... Yugoslavia and the overall crisis in the Balkans during the 1990s. Even after completing an annotated filmography ... Yugoslav breakup. Territorio comanche/Comanche Territory (1997), for example, told a story about Sarajevo but was a ...
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... Yugoslavia was felt as far as the entertainment field: as early as 1994 critics in trade journals could not help noticing the proliferation of East European entries for the Oscar competition. Whereas before, Yugoslavia would submit only ...
... Yugoslavia was felt as far as the entertainment field: as early as 1994 critics in trade journals could not help noticing the proliferation of East European entries for the Oscar competition. Whereas before, Yugoslavia would submit only ...
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... Yugoslav directors returned from exile to make their films, while others had to go into exile to continue their work ... Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation (1995), which used a large variety of documentary sources and featured interviews with ...
... Yugoslav directors returned from exile to make their films, while others had to go into exile to continue their work ... Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation (1995), which used a large variety of documentary sources and featured interviews with ...
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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