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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... appear 'Balkan', there is a range of contexts in which they do, and in the concrete discussion of the first part of this book I will show in what precise contexts they fall under the 'Balkan' concept. Where do the Balkans end, as ...
... appear 'Balkan', there is a range of contexts in which they do, and in the concrete discussion of the first part of this book I will show in what precise contexts they fall under the 'Balkan' concept. Where do the Balkans end, as ...
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... appear to fill in the current gap. The. Films. The cinematic image of the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall became synonymous with the new era for East Europeans and was used in documentaries and features. It was not the demolition of the ...
... appear to fill in the current gap. The. Films. The cinematic image of the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall became synonymous with the new era for East Europeans and was used in documentaries and features. It was not the demolition of the ...
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... appearing regularly at all major feature and documentary festivals. In 1994 Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The 1995 Cannes season brought awards to Kusturica's Underground and Theo ...
... appearing regularly at all major feature and documentary festivals. In 1994 Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The 1995 Cannes season brought awards to Kusturica's Underground and Theo ...
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... appear in glamorous attire on the battlefield. It becomes clear that a short-term truce has been negotiated so that the annual golf match of the European excellencies can take place. Unlike Colonel Redl, in these Balkan films the ...
... appear in glamorous attire on the battlefield. It becomes clear that a short-term truce has been negotiated so that the annual golf match of the European excellencies can take place. Unlike Colonel Redl, in these Balkan films the ...
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... appear associated with all the characteristics that describe the Third World, but it is just an appearance. Their 'Europeanness' is a profound characteristic of their inner essence that has been taken away from them and that is to be ...
... appear associated with all the characteristics that describe the Third World, but it is just an appearance. Their 'Europeanness' is a profound characteristic of their inner essence that has been taken away from them and that is to be ...
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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