| Description |
322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: War in the Balkans - Moving Images -- Part 1 - Europe: Location or Destination? Narrative and History -- Chapter 2: Are the Balkans Admissible? The Discourse on Europe -- Chapter 3: Narrating the Balkans -- Chapter 4: Narrative and Putative History -- Part 2 - Commitments Amid Strife -- Chapter 5: Balkan Film and History: The Politics of Historical Collage -- Chapter 6: Kusturica's Underground: Historical Allegory or Propaganda? -- Chapter 7: Taking Sides -- Chapter 8: Violence: 'Violated Trust, Indoctrination, Self-Destruction -- Part 3 - People -- Chapter 9: Villains and Victims -- Chapter 10: Representing Women's Concerns -- Chapter 11: Gypsies: Looking at 'Them', Defining Oneself -- Part 4 - Spaces -- Chapter 12: Visions of Sarajevo: The World Comes to the Balkans -- Chapter 13: Migrating Mind and Expanding Universe: The Balkans Come to the World |
| Summary |
"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 among 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 |
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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 Sarajevo, diaspora, and the representations of villains, victims, women, and ethnic minorities are all considered in the general context of Balkan cinema."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
BALKAN WAR IN FILMS |
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BALKAN COUNTRIES |
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SARAJEVO IN FILMS |
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VLEMMA TOU ODYSSEA, TO (GR/FR/IT, Theo Angelopoulos, 1995) |
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WELCOME TO SARAJEVO (UK/US, Michael Winterbottom, 1997) |
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UNDERGROUND (FR/GG/HU, Emir Kusturica, 1995) |
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BEFORE THE RAIN (UK/FR/ME, Milcho Manchevski, 1994) |
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LEPA SELA LEPO GORE (YU, Srdjan Dragojevic, 1996) |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Filmography (pages [300]-317) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-299) and indexes |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Balkan Peninsula -- European influences.
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Motion pictures -- Balkan Peninsula.
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| SUBJECT |
Balkan Peninsula http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011191 -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002005441
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| Author |
British Film Institute.
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| LC no. |
2002318027 |
| ISBN |
085170848X |
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0851708471 |
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