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Cinema of flames : Balkan film, culture and the media

Title
Cinema of flames : Balkan film, culture and the media / Dina Iordanova.
Author
Iordanova, Dina.
Publication
London : British Film Institute, 2001.

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Description
322 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"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.
Subject
  • Bibel
  • Motion pictures > Balkan Peninsula
  • Culture in motion pictures
  • 24.32 history of film art
  • Motion pictures
  • Bürgerkrieg Motiv
  • Jugoslawienkriege Motiv
  • Filmkunst
  • Politieke aspecten
  • Motion pictures > Balkan Peninsula > History
  • Motion pictures > Balkan Peninsula > European influences
  • Film
  • Balkan Peninsula > In motion pictures
  • Balkan Peninsula
  • Jugoslawien
  • Balkan
Note
  • "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 (note)
  • Filmography (p. [300]-317).
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-299) and indexes.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 085170848X
  • 9780851708485
  • 0851708471
  • 9780851708478
LCCN
  • 2002318027
  • 9780851708478
OCLC
  • ocm45853036
  • 45853036
  • SCSB-1236841
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library