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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... reports about new films being shown at festivals or that are currently in production. Sometime in 1998 I decided that it was now futile to try to keep up. I am still doing my best to see as many of the new films as possible, but none of ...
... reports about new films being shown at festivals or that are currently in production. Sometime in 1998 I decided that it was now futile to try to keep up. I am still doing my best to see as many of the new films as possible, but none of ...
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... report that such tapes are being sold at clandestine pornographic markets in Romania and other Central Eastern European countries. I, however, have not found any evidence of the existence of such tapes. 18. Ironically, the only ...
... report that such tapes are being sold at clandestine pornographic markets in Romania and other Central Eastern European countries. I, however, have not found any evidence of the existence of such tapes. 18. Ironically, the only ...
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... reporting of First/Second World relations was undergoing transformation and that the coverage of the Second World was now comparable to that of the Third World, 'with Eastern Europe/the Soviet Union (later the ex-Soviet Union) playing a ...
... reporting of First/Second World relations was undergoing transformation and that the coverage of the Second World was now comparable to that of the Third World, 'with Eastern Europe/the Soviet Union (later the ex-Soviet Union) playing a ...
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... reporting, as all these aspects can now be played down for the sake of focusing on the 'culturist' aspect. Many reporters perpetuated Huntington's approach in their coverage of the Balkans by ignoring political ARE THE BALKANS ...
... reporting, as all these aspects can now be played down for the sake of focusing on the 'culturist' aspect. Many reporters perpetuated Huntington's approach in their coverage of the Balkans by ignoring political ARE THE BALKANS ...
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... reported that Centuries of domination by the Ottoman Turks and a cultural affinity with Orthodox Russia have not instilled an intuitive grasp of democratic principles among the Balkan peoples. What's happening now in the streets may ...
... reported that Centuries of domination by the Ottoman Turks and a cultural affinity with Orthodox Russia have not instilled an intuitive grasp of democratic principles among the Balkan peoples. What's happening now in the streets may ...
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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