Cinema of flames
Subtitle: Balkan film, culture and the media
By: Dina Iordanova.
Publisher: British Film Institute
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Balkan Peninsula; Balkan Peninsula -- In motion pictures
Notes: Filmography (p. [300]-317).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-299) and indexes.
"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.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: War in the Balkans - Moving Images; title: Part 1 - Europe: Location or Destination? Narrative and History; title: Chapter 2: Are the Balkans Admissible? The Discourse on Europe; title: Chapter 3: Narrating the Balkans; title: Chapter 4: Narrative and Putative History; title: Part 2 - Commitments Amid Strife; title: Chapter 5: Balkan Film and History: The Politics of Historical Collage; title: Chapter 6: Kusturica's Underground: Historical Allegory or Propaganda?; title: Chapter 7: Taking Sides; title: Chapter 8: Violence: 'Violated Trust, Indoctrination, Self-Destruction; title: Part 3 - People; title: Chapter 9: Villains and Victims; title: Chapter 10: Representing Women's Concerns; title: Chapter 11: Gypsies: Looking at 'Them', Defining Oneself; title: Part 4 - Spaces; title: Chapter 12: Visions of Sarajevo: The World Comes to the Balkans; title: Chapter 13: Migrating Mind and Expanding Universe: The Balkans Come to the World.