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 13
... depicting a rock musician cruising around his native Belgrade and witnessing the profanation of public life, or Rupa u dusu/Hole in the Soul (1994) by cosmopolitan exile Dušan Makavejev, testifying to the isolation of Yugoslavia, are ...
... depicting a rock musician cruising around his native Belgrade and witnessing the profanation of public life, or Rupa u dusu/Hole in the Soul (1994) by cosmopolitan exile Dušan Makavejev, testifying to the isolation of Yugoslavia, are ...
Page 22
... depicts and conceptualises marginal communities. Here, I look mostly at the Balkan cinematic representations of the Roma (Gypsies), which I interpret within the framework of 'projective identification'. Part 4, 'Spaces', looks at two ...
... depicts and conceptualises marginal communities. Here, I look mostly at the Balkan cinematic representations of the Roma (Gypsies), which I interpret within the framework of 'projective identification'. Part 4, 'Spaces', looks at two ...
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... depicting clashes between soldiers on the battlefields of World War I. A ceasefire is announced, and European dignitaries appear in glamorous attire on the battlefield. It becomes clear that a short-term truce has been negotiated so ...
... depicting clashes between soldiers on the battlefields of World War I. A ceasefire is announced, and European dignitaries appear in glamorous attire on the battlefield. It becomes clear that a short-term truce has been negotiated so ...
Page 32
... depict the respective nations not as a'margin' but as a 'bridge' between the Occident and the Orient. In the 1980s and 1990s, the discourse on Europe, dormant during the cold war years, re-emerged in the public sphere of all the former ...
... depict the respective nations not as a'margin' but as a 'bridge' between the Occident and the Orient. In the 1980s and 1990s, the discourse on Europe, dormant during the cold war years, re-emerged in the public sphere of all the former ...
Page 47
... depict Atatürk as a modernist politician comparable to Gandhi. To those letter writers, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was 'a rapist, murderer, child molester and destroyer of Greek civilisation', a 'savage maniac' and 'a disgrace to human ...
... depict Atatürk as a modernist politician comparable to Gandhi. To those letter writers, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was 'a rapist, murderer, child molester and destroyer of Greek civilisation', a 'savage maniac' and 'a disgrace to human ...
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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