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Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture, and the Media
Dina Iordanova
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Hardback. This text 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 in the media. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations, notes, filmography, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVW; APF; JFD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 704.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
British Film Institute
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780851708485
SKU
V9780851708485
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About Dina Iordanova
Dina Iordanova is a Lecturer at the Centre of Mass Communication at the University of Leicester and an editor of The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema (2000)
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