Contemporary Balkan Cinema

Lydia Papadimitriou is Reader (Associate Professor) in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published extensively on different aspects of Greek cinema, including (digital) film distribution, co-productions, film festivals and documentary. She has authored The Greek Film Musical (2006), co-edited Greek Cinema: Texts, Forms and Identities (2011), and is the Principal Editor of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture. She has published numerous articles in books and journals, including New Review of Film and Television Studies, International Journal of Media Management, Studies in European Cinema and Screen. Ana Grgić, PhD (University of St Andrews) is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at Monash University Malaysia. She has published on questions of identity, memory and archives in Balkan cinema. Her publications appeared in Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Short Film Studies, Film Quarterly, The Film Festival Yearbook and Cinemas of Paris. She co-edited two special issues: on Albanian cinema (KinoKultura) and on Central and Eastern European women editors (Apparatus). Her monograph on early cinema in the Balkans is forthcoming with Amsterdam University Press.

An original contribution that pushes the envelope while remaining in dialogue with its antecedents. [...] It is a timely addition to steadily growing scholarship on emergent film cultures in Eastern Europe and the European South where the many exciting possibilities transnationalism can afford for both filmmaking and film scholarship materialize.

• AcknowledgmentsPreface: Cinema of the Balkans-An Endless JourneyDina IordanovaNotes on contributorsIntroductionLydia Papadimitriou and Ana Grgić1. Albania: Crossing Borders with a New ImaginaryBruce Williams and Kledian Myftari2. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Challenging Precarity, Rethinking TraumaDijana Jelača3. Bulgaria: Reframing Contemporary Arthouse and Mainstream CinemaGergana Doncheva4. Croatia: Film under Ideological Pressure - The State, Its Citizen, and the Faltering Future Jurica Pavičić and Aida Vidan5. Cyprus: Transnational Challenges, Opportunities and Compromises Costas Constantinides and Yiannis Papadakis6. Greece: Transnational Dynamics in Greek Cinema since the Crisis Maria Chalkou7. Kosovo: Cinematic Developments between Conflicts and Social Transformation Francesca Borrione and Albana Muco8. Montenegro: A Small, Open and Forward-looking Film Industry Sanja Jovanović9. North Macedonia: A Nation and Cinema in TransitionVessela S. Warner10. Romania: Transnational and National Tensions Beyond the New Wave Raluca Iacob11. Serbia: Reco(r)ding the Cinematic Turn Nevena Daković, Aleksandra Milovanović and Iva Leković12. Slovenia: A small National Cinema in the Phase of Transnational Synergy Polona Petek13. Turkey: Transnational Dimensions of a Large National Film IndustryMehlis Behlil General BibliographyAppendix: Tables (per country)Table 1 - Overview of national film productionTable 2 - Feature film (fiction) production and box office data