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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... protagonists. The global trend that turns all feature film-making into a multinational enterprise is clearly visible in the case of the features (at least thirty) that looked at aspects of the Yugoslav breakup. Territorio comanche ...
... protagonists. The global trend that turns all feature film-making into a multinational enterprise is clearly visible in the case of the features (at least thirty) that looked at aspects of the Yugoslav breakup. Territorio comanche ...
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... protagonist (played by Johnny Depp), is asleep on the back of a truck in New York. The news bulletin on the radio starts with an item about 'The Bosnians ...' Depp and shuts the radio down. 19. Besides festivals, there have been various ...
... protagonist (played by Johnny Depp), is asleep on the back of a truck in New York. The news bulletin on the radio starts with an item about 'The Bosnians ...' Depp and shuts the radio down. 19. Besides festivals, there have been various ...
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... protagonists actually never left their remote little town. The concluding message of the film reads as a reassuring: 'East, West, home is best.' The symbolism of impeded travel to Europe is also a basic premise of Greek Theo ...
... protagonists actually never left their remote little town. The concluding message of the film reads as a reassuring: 'East, West, home is best.' The symbolism of impeded travel to Europe is also a basic premise of Greek Theo ...
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... culture. In film, the celebrated 1995 Cannes winner, Underground, offered an outspoken confirmation of the substandard ethics of its Yugoslav protagonists, while the celebrated 1994 Venice winner, Before 46 CINEMA OF FLAMES.
... culture. In film, the celebrated 1995 Cannes winner, Underground, offered an outspoken confirmation of the substandard ethics of its Yugoslav protagonists, while the celebrated 1994 Venice winner, Before 46 CINEMA OF FLAMES.
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Balkan Film, Culture and the Media Dina Iordanova. its Yugoslav protagonists, while the celebrated 1994 Venice winner, Before the Rain, showed tribal mayhem that dauntingly reached as far as a tranquil London locale. Bickering about the ...
Balkan Film, Culture and the Media Dina Iordanova. its Yugoslav protagonists, while the celebrated 1994 Venice winner, Before the Rain, showed tribal mayhem that dauntingly reached as far as a tranquil London locale. Bickering about the ...
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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