ISBN:
9783631809082
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (284 pages)
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Cultural policy
Abstract:
Cover -- Copyright information -- Our Wars: A Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. WWI and Balkan Cinema -- 1. A Common Grounds among the Trenches? European Melodramas around WW1 and Their Impact on Balkan Film Style -- Concluding Remarks: A Common Ground "Among the Trenches"? -- References -- 2. Transmedia Storytelling of the Great War -- References -- 3. Verbal Information vs. Iconic Information in Duty and Sacrifice -- 4. WWI in Romanian Literary Screen Adaptations -- 5. "The Sweepings of Bucharest, Wretches Picked Up Off the Streets and Caf é s": Framing of Wartime Experience in Through the Ashes of the Empire (Andrei Blaier, 1976) -- Introduction -- The Social Imaginary of War -- The Individualization of the Cinematic Representation of War -- Reflexive Evaluation of War -- The Myth of Unity: Sentimental and Rational Displays -- War and the Experience of Otherness -- Conclusion -- References -- 6. Cinematographic Activity on the Romanian Territory of Dobrudja during the Presence of Bulgarian Troops at the Time of WWI (1916-1918) -- The Tutrakan Epic on Film (1916) -- Cinema in Babadag (1917-1918) -- Travelling Frontline Cinematographers -- 1918: The Heroes Are Tired… -- 7. Ecaterina Teodoroiu's Mythologization in Romanian Films -- Introduction: Mythologizing Background -- Mythologizing Patterns -- Filmic Representations of the Heroine from Jiu -- Emasculated heroine -- Frail femininity -- Androgynous warrior -- Conclusive Remarks -- References -- II. WWII and Balkan Cinema -- 8. Romania on the 1941-1944 Eastern Battlefield -- 9. Specialized Wartime Publications for Cinema in Bulgaria (1941-1944) -- Film (1942-1944) -- White and Black (1943) -- 10. Metaphors of War in Romanian Animation Films -- References -- 11. The Nostradamus of Cinema: Benjamin Fondane and the Poetics of Films -- Context -- Benjamin Fondane's Life.
Abstract:
Fondane's Film Theory and Practice -- About Tararira -- References -- 12. Treacherous Women: Representation of Female Characters as Traitors of the Nation in Partisan-themed Yugoslav New Films -- III. Balkan Perspectives -- 13. Early Balkan Cinema according to the French Cin é -Journal -- 14. The Uniform as Key Element for War Movies: A Critical Approach -- 15. Seven Aussie Films about the Balkans 1 -- 16. Usage of Mythical Narrative in the Framing of "Our" Side versus "Theirs" -- 17. Doomed Souls and the "War that Won't Die" -- 18. Balkan Cinema Ritrovato -- 19. Ghosts of the War in Found Footage Cinema -- 20. The Culture of Violence in the New Romanian Cinema: The Influence of Michael Haneke Aesthetics -- 21. Desemantizations of National History in Romanian Cinema after 1989 -- 22. Comedy, Safest Way Out: Greekness and the Primordial Other, Turks in Nikos Perakis' Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors.
Abstract:
Balkan Cinema is a result of a common cultural space shared by different nations. While operating under a blanket perspective on the region, Balkan filmmakers produced diverse narratives creatively responding to their situation. This volume features how films entangled these issues including wars, national identity, and cultural exchanges