Recommended Reading

Alagjozovski, R. "Postmodernism in the Macedonian Film," MovEast 9, 2004,

Budapest: Hungarian National Film Archive. Available at www.filmintezet.hu/uj/kiadvanyok/moveast/moveast_9/alagjozovski.htm

Bjelic, Duan and Savic, Obrad. Editors: Balkan as

Cernat, M. A Concise History of the Romanian Film. Translated by Andrei Bantas. Bucharest: Editura Stiintifica si enciclopedica, 1982.

De Hadeln, Moritz, Editor. Romania: The Documentary Films 1898-1990. Nyon: Festival International du film documentaire, 1990.

Durgnat, Raymond. WR: Mysteries of the Organism. London: British Film Institute, 1999.

Elsaesser, Thomas. "Our Balkanist Gaze: About Memory's No Man's Land." In European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 356-73, 2005.

Georgakas, Dan and Horton, Andrew, Editors. Special issue on Greek Cinema, Film Criticism, XXVII, 2:1, 2002.

Gocic, G. The Cinema of Emir Kusturica: Notes from the Underground. London: Wallflower Press, 2001.

Goulding, Daniel J., Editor. Post New-Wave Cinema in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

Holloway, Ron. The Bulgarian Cinema. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986.

--Macedonian Film: A History of Macedonian Cinema, 1905-1996.

--Kino: German Film. Special issue with Cinematheque of Macedonia, 1996.

Horton, Andrew. The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

--Editor. The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.

Horton, Andrew J., Editor. The Celluloid Tinderbox: Yugoslav Screen Reflections of a Turbulent Decade. London: Central Europe Review, pp. 62-89, 2000. Available at www.mirhouse.com/ce-review/Yugofilm.pdf

Iordanova, Dina, Editor. Cinema of the Balkans. London: Wallflower Press, 2006.

--Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media. London: British Film Institute, 2001.

Koliodimos, D., Editor. The Greek Filmography, 1914 Through 1996. New York: McFarland & Company, 1999.

Lako, N. "The Birth of Balkan Cinematographic Art in an Albanian Colonial Period," MovEast 9, 2004. Budapest: Hungarian National Film Archive. Available at www.filmintezet.hu/uj/kiadvanyok/moveast /moveast_9/lako_albanian.htm

Levi, P. Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.

Liehm, Mira and Liehm, Antonin J. The Most Important Art: Soviet and East European Film After 1945. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977.

Mercouri, Melina. I Was Born Greek. New York: Dell, 1973.

MovEast 6. Bulgarian Cinema of the 1990s. Budapest: Hungarian National Film Archive, 2001.

Papadimitriou, Lydia. The Greek Film Musical: A Critical and Cultural History. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland and Company, 2006.

Ravetto-Biagiolli, Kriss. "Reframing Europe's Double Border," in Imre, A., Editor. East European Cinemas. New York: Routledge, pp. 179-197, 2005.

Stoil, M. J. Balkan Cinema: Evolution after the Revolution. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1982.

Taylor, Richard, Graffy, Julian, Wood, Nancy and Iordanova, Dina, Editors. BFI's Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema. London: British Film Institute, 2000.

Todorova, Maria. Imagining the Balkans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Tutui, M. Manakia Bros. or the Moving Balkans, Bucharest: Romanian Film Archive (In Romanian and English), 2004.

--A History of Romanian Cinema.

Bucharest: National Center of Cinema (In Romanian and English), 2004.

Recommended Websites

Belgrade Fest: www.fest.org.yu/

BG Media: www.gobgmedia.com/home_page.html

Centrul National al Cinematografiei--Romania: www.cncinema.abt.ro/

Cinema.bg: www.cinema.bg

Cinematheque of Macedonia: makedonija.at/kinoteka/

goEast--Festival of Central and Eastern European Film Wiesbaden, Germany: www.filmfestival-goeast.de/engl/01.htm

Goran Paskaljevic: www.paskaljevic.com/main/index.html

Greek Film Centre: www.gfc.gr/

Istanbul International Film Festival, Turkey:www.iksv.org/film/english/

Kinoeye: www.kinoeye.org

Macedonian Cinema Information Centre: www.maccinema.com/e_kinoteka.asp

Matthieu Dhennin's Emir Kusturica: www.dhennin.com/kusturica/

Milcho Manchevski: www.manchevski.com.mk/

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An Inner Exodus: The Many Diasporas of Balkan Cinema by Gareth Jones

What do Balkan filmmakers who leave their home countries gain from the often traumatic process of relocation? Jones poses this and other questions to several emigre directors, hailing from Bosnia, Macedonia, and Albania, who went on to address the difficulties of uprooting in their films. He adds that exodus takes many shapes. The former Yugoslavia, he writes, is a particularly poignant example of an "inner diaspora," "a diaspora of the soul by which the country has taken leave of its inhabitants, not the opposite, suggesting an unhappy model for diasporas yet unimagined."

Is There a Balkan Cinema?: A Filmmakers' and Critics' Symposium Organized by Andrew James Horton with Dan Georgakas and Angelike Contis

The notion of Balkan cinema and whether or not such an entity can be said to exist has been debated in the region in recent years. To address this question, we surveyed a number of directors and critics active in the region. We asked three questions of each respondent and asked him or her to reply in either an essay or question- and-answer format.

We asked film directors the following three questions: 1) To what degree can we speak of Balkan cinema as well as the cinemas of specific Balkan countries? 2) What is the single most important issue that makes the biggest professional difference in your life as a Balkan filmmaker? 3) What five Balkan films would you select for wide international distribution?

We asked film critics the following questions: l) To what degree can we speak of Balkan cinema? 2) What do you like best about the cinema of this region? And 3) What five Balkan films would you select for wide international distribution?

Contributors, in alphabetical order, include Kujtim Cashku, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Constantine Giannaris, Damjan Kozole, Dusan Makavejev, Milcho Manchevski, Corneliu Porumboiu, Goran Radovanovic, Pantelis Voulgaris, Sophia Zornitsa, Lorenzo Codelli, Yusuf Guven, Ronald Holloway, Dimitris Kerkinos and Deborah Young.