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 10
... feel I can offer more insights into a given film by continually contextualising rather than by textually analysing. For such an analysis to be meaningful, I widely employ the concept of Balkan cinema. As there has been little regional ...
... feel I can offer more insights into a given film by continually contextualising rather than by textually analysing. For such an analysis to be meaningful, I widely employ the concept of Balkan cinema. As there has been little regional ...
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... feeling that this will be the last edited volume to approach the cinema of 'Eastern Europe' as an entity. The next logical step is to regroup the cinemas of the region to reflect newer geopolitical realities. As more and more thematic ...
... feeling that this will be the last edited volume to approach the cinema of 'Eastern Europe' as an entity. The next logical step is to regroup the cinemas of the region to reflect newer geopolitical realities. As more and more thematic ...
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... feel that traditional avenues for research are nearly exhausted and for whom my approach to the Balkans may open up new spheres for exploration. It also includes all those people in the international media who are led by a genuine ...
... feel that traditional avenues for research are nearly exhausted and for whom my approach to the Balkans may open up new spheres for exploration. It also includes all those people in the international media who are led by a genuine ...
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... feeling clumsy: the lady of the house addresses the Dalmatian in an unknown language ('Sit down!'); then Redl is asked by the grandfather if he is a Pole. The question about his background triggers a jumbled explanation, in which Redl ...
... feeling clumsy: the lady of the house addresses the Dalmatian in an unknown language ('Sit down!'); then Redl is asked by the grandfather if he is a Pole. The question about his background triggers a jumbled explanation, in which Redl ...
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... feel like complete outsiders and outcasts. A similar treatment is given to the insecure Romanian officials in Mircea Daneliuk's Senatorul melcilor/Senator's Snails (1995) who, pressured by concern about their coverage in Western media ...
... feel like complete outsiders and outcasts. A similar treatment is given to the insecure Romanian officials in Mircea Daneliuk's Senatorul melcilor/Senator's Snails (1995) who, pressured by concern about their coverage in Western media ...
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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