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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... the Balkans, however, remains invariably important and controversial. And it is this subtle role that I hope to have captured and problematised in my work. Chapter 1 War in the Balkans – Moving Images This 4 CINEMA OF FLAMES.
... the Balkans, however, remains invariably important and controversial. And it is this subtle role that I hope to have captured and problematised in my work. Chapter 1 War in the Balkans – Moving Images This 4 CINEMA OF FLAMES.
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... remains unaccounted for. Looking at cinematic texts helps bring to light the underlying dynamics of cross-cultural image-making as it unravels within the wider context of communicated concepts and interpretations. Second, because in ...
... remains unaccounted for. Looking at cinematic texts helps bring to light the underlying dynamics of cross-cultural image-making as it unravels within the wider context of communicated concepts and interpretations. Second, because in ...
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... remains the international TV co-production Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation (1995), which used a large variety of documentary sources and featured interviews with most of the main political figures involved in the conflict.16 Critical ...
... remains the international TV co-production Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation (1995), which used a large variety of documentary sources and featured interviews with most of the main political figures involved in the conflict.16 Critical ...
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... remains, and will remain, largely unseen and un(der)exposed. There have been some archival efforts, like those of the International Monitor Institute in Los Angeles and the Documentation Centre of Social Movements in Amsterdam. The ...
... remains, and will remain, largely unseen and un(der)exposed. There have been some archival efforts, like those of the International Monitor Institute in Los Angeles and the Documentation Centre of Social Movements in Amsterdam. The ...
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... remains unnamed, and soon after this encounter Karahasan directs his bitterness to 'the West' in general. In another instance, writing for German audiences (in Vollmer, 1995, p. 162), Karahasan identifies the individuals who, he feels ...
... remains unnamed, and soon after this encounter Karahasan directs his bitterness to 'the West' in general. In another instance, writing for German audiences (in Vollmer, 1995, p. 162), Karahasan identifies the individuals who, he feels ...
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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