Balkan Cinema and the Great Wars: Our Story

ISBN-13: 9783631803967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 282 str.

Adrian-Silvan Ionescu;Savas Arslan;Marian Tutui

Opis

Balkan Cinema is a result of a common cultural space shared by different nations. While operating under a blanket and negative perspective on the region, Balkan filmmakers produced diverse yet comparable narratives creatively responding to their situation. Featuring selected and edited presentations from the Third International Conference on Balkan Cinema 8-10 May 2018 in Bucharest, this volume features how films entangled these issues including wars, national identity, myths, travels, and cultural exchanges. While we share a common Balkan heritage and celebrate peace and coexistence, we are also aware of the fact that our stories are written amidst and through multiple conflicts and wars. The wars and the peace, regardless of when and how they are happening, are ours to share.

Spis treści

Balkan cinema - World wars - WWI - WWII - National identity - Nationalism - Propaganda - Myth - Anti-war metaphors - Melodrama - Early cinema - Found footage - Compilation movies - Archival images - Newsreels

O autorze

Adrian Silvan Ionescu is Director of the «George Oprescu» Institute of Art History and Associate Professor at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania. Trained as an art historian he was previously the curator at the National Museum of Art and at the City Museum of Bucharest, where he also worked as the deputy director. His fields of study are the history of Romanian photography, 19th century fine arts and urban civilization, the history of civil and military costume. He authored fourteen books and edited eight others.