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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... fact which is still rarely recognised or 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 ...
... fact which is still rarely recognised or 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 ...
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... fact that the Balkans happen to be located there.) There were some who criticised my description of countries like Turkey or Greece as 'Balkan'. Turkey, I was told, did not belong, as it stood with the Islamic/Middle Eastern world ...
... fact that the Balkans happen to be located there.) There were some who criticised my description of countries like Turkey or Greece as 'Balkan'. Turkey, I was told, did not belong, as it stood with the Islamic/Middle Eastern world ...
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... fact that Slavoj Zˇizˇek's (1994, 1995) comments on Balkan issues are scattered amid an avalanche of critical commentary on a range of Western cultural concerns, he has spelled out some most important preconceptions about – and within ...
... fact that Slavoj Zˇizˇek's (1994, 1995) comments on Balkan issues are scattered amid an avalanche of critical commentary on a range of Western cultural concerns, he has spelled out some most important preconceptions about – and within ...
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... fact it is mostly published by organisations that do not have a distribution arm. The most comprehensive study on Yugoslav cinema to date is by Daniel Goulding (1985), while Bulgarian film is discussed by Ronald Holloway (1986) and ...
... fact it is mostly published by organisations that do not have a distribution arm. The most comprehensive study on Yugoslav cinema to date is by Daniel Goulding (1985), while Bulgarian film is discussed by Ronald Holloway (1986) and ...
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... fact of life. While I recognise that journalists have stressed the resentment far too often and have turned the concept of intra-Balkan hostilities into a stereotype, I myself have seen variations of this resentment acted out far too ...
... fact of life. While I recognise that journalists have stressed the resentment far too often and have turned the concept of intra-Balkan hostilities into a stereotype, I myself have seen variations of this resentment acted out far too ...
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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