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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... explored in a persistent manner. Nowadays it is the moving image rather than the printed word that carries more persuasive weight. By analysing film and visual representation, I remain confined to explanations that do not offer ...
... explored in a persistent manner. Nowadays it is the moving image rather than the printed word that carries more persuasive weight. By analysing film and visual representation, I remain confined to explanations that do not offer ...
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... explores their present-day economic volatility, the state-sanctioned nationalism and the lack of stable political structures. Furthermore, as 'the Balkans' have been labelled and treated by the West as an indivisible semantic space ...
... explores their present-day economic volatility, the state-sanctioned nationalism and the lack of stable political structures. Furthermore, as 'the Balkans' have been labelled and treated by the West as an indivisible semantic space ...
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... explored in nearly forty features and over two hundred documentaries made worldwide, thus becoming the event that occupied the minds of the largest number of film-makers since 1989. I think it is significant here that I first and ...
... explored in nearly forty features and over two hundred documentaries made worldwide, thus becoming the event that occupied the minds of the largest number of film-makers since 1989. I think it is significant here that I first and ...
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... explored by authors such as Mira and Antonín Liehm (1977), David Paul (1983), Daniel Goulding (1989) and Thomas Slater (1992), is gradually becoming a concept of the past.21 Although a forthcoming scholarly collaborative effort, edited ...
... explored by authors such as Mira and Antonín Liehm (1977), David Paul (1983), Daniel Goulding (1989) and Thomas Slater (1992), is gradually becoming a concept of the past.21 Although a forthcoming scholarly collaborative effort, edited ...
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... explored in the work of theorist Robert Rosenstone, whose Visions of the Past (1995) made me think of the choices that film-makers face when representing historical material. Studies looking at general issues of cross-cultural ...
... explored in the work of theorist Robert Rosenstone, whose Visions of the Past (1995) made me think of the choices that film-makers face when representing historical material. Studies looking at general issues of cross-cultural ...
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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