Albanian Cinema through the Fall of Communism

Silver Screens and Red Flags

AvBruce Williams

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del 6 i serien Eastern European Screen Cultures

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Albanian cinema truly represents a terra incognita for most of the world. Decidedly Europe’s most isolated country during the Cold War era, communist Albania had already been cut off from the West for centuries as a one of the western-most outposts of the Ottoman empire. Nonetheless, and unknown to most of the world, communist Albania had a vibrant cinema tradition. Although bound by official orthodoxy, the films of the state-run Kinostudio enterprise were surprisingly innovative and, at times, daringly subversive. This book opens with examinations of moving images in Albania from the Ottoman period, through those captured under independence and the Fascist occupation. It subsequently foregrounds transformations in Kinostudio, from the early optimism of socialist realism through the brooding social angst of the 1980s, which constitute a bridge to the socioeconomic concerns of Albanian films of the postcommunist period.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-26
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Eastern European Screen Cultures
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:Amsterdam University Press
ISBN:9789462980150

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Bruce Williams is a professor of cultural studies at the William Paterson University of New Jersey. A specialist in film theory and history, his areas of research focus range from issues of national identity in the cinema to films of ethnic minority expression. He is co-author, with Keumsil Kim-Yoon of Two Lenses on the Korean Ethos: Key Cultural Concepts and Their Appearance in Cinema (2015). Williams has published extensively on Hispanic film and on the ‘other cinema’ of Europe. His current research foregrounds Albanian cinema in the transnational era.

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"Overall, Bruce Williams has provided an excellent overview of the development of Albanian film up to 1990. He does not limit himself to describing important leading films, but places them in the context of the overall political development. The freedom of choice was evidently greater for filmmakers than for their colleagues in other areas of culture." -Michael Schmidt-Neke, Südost-Forschungen, issue 82, 2023

Innehållsförteckning

Preface: A Personal Journey towards and through Albania and Its Cinema Acknowledgments Introduction: Albania: The Context for a Little-Known Cinema Chapter I: The Roots of Cinema in Albania: The Ottoman Period, Independence, and the Fascist Occupation Chapter II: The Birth and Development of a Socialist Cinema in Albania Chapter III: The Flourishing of Kinostudio Chapter IV: A Cinema in Isolation Chapter V: Kinostudio in the Post-Hoxha Era Works Cited Some Words in Conclusion—Towards a Cinema of Postcommunism Works Cited Filmography