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Cinema of flames : Balkan film, culture and the media

Dina Iordanova (Author)
"This book surveys the ... films that were made in response to the 1990's crisis in the Balkans, and in particular the Bosnian war"--Ch. 1
eBook, English, 2019
First edition View all formats and editions
British Film Institute, London England, 2019
1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations
9781838715045, 9781838710019, 9781838715038, 1838715045, 1838710019, 1838715037
1396930220
War in the Balkans : moving images
Part 1. Europe : location or destination? Narrative and history
Are the Balkans admissible? The discourse on Europe
Narrating the Balkans
Narrative and putative history
Part 2. Commitments amid strife
Balkan film and history : the politics of historical collage
Kusturica's Underground : historical allegory or propaganda?
Taking sides
Violence : 'violated trust, indoctrination, self-destruction
Part 3. People
Villains and victims
Representing women's concerns
Gypsies : looking at 'Them', defining oneself
Part 4. Spaces
Visions of Sarajevo : the world comes to the Balkans
Migrating mind and expanding universe : the Balkans come to the world
Aftermath? Fragmentary notes
"This book surveys the ... films that were made in response to the 1990's crisis in the Balkans, and in particular the Bosnian war"--Ch. 1