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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... writing about what I saw. The mountainous landscape of Bosnia looked so painfully familiar – the red roofs, the hamlets scattered between hills, the old villages deserted by the young who had migrated to the grey apartment complexes in ...
... writing about what I saw. The mountainous landscape of Bosnia looked so painfully familiar – the red roofs, the hamlets scattered between hills, the old villages deserted by the young who had migrated to the grey apartment complexes in ...
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... writing for a lasting peace. As I write this in 2000, however, in the post-Kosovo and even post-Milosevic ́ era, I am still not sure this is the end of the road. At moments there are glimpses of hope, while at others the tensions look ...
... writing for a lasting peace. As I write this in 2000, however, in the post-Kosovo and even post-Milosevic ́ era, I am still not sure this is the end of the road. At moments there are glimpses of hope, while at others the tensions look ...
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... writer and two orphaned boys, and of Heroje/Heroes (1998), concerning a tense evening spent awaiting the return of a missing friend, were told from the point of view of locals; all the rest followed the formula of the transplanted ...
... writer and two orphaned boys, and of Heroje/Heroes (1998), concerning a tense evening spent awaiting the return of a missing friend, were told from the point of view of locals; all the rest followed the formula of the transplanted ...
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... writing evolved in a context largely informed by scholarship and popular writing. (I give a detailed account on the various works that informed my writing in the Bibliography.) My material were the films about the troubled Balkans, but ...
... writing evolved in a context largely informed by scholarship and popular writing. (I give a detailed account on the various works that informed my writing in the Bibliography.) My material were the films about the troubled Balkans, but ...
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... writing on Balkan cinema is really scarce. There are only two American studies that claim to deal with Balkan cinema as an entity, both of which are by Michael J. Stoil (1974, 1982). However, they do not systematically concentrate on ...
... writing on Balkan cinema is really scarce. There are only two American studies that claim to deal with Balkan cinema as an entity, both of which are by Michael J. Stoil (1974, 1982). However, they do not systematically concentrate on ...
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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