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1 online resource. |
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Contemporary Film Directors |
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Contemporary film directors.
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| Summary |
"Emir Kusturica is one of Eastern Europe's most celebrated and influential filmmakers. Over the course of a thirty-year career, Kusturica has navigated a series of geopolitical fault lines to produce subversive, playful, often satiric works. On the way he won acclaim and widespread popularity while showing a genius for adjusting his poetic pitch--shifting from romantic realist to controversial satirist to sentimental jester. Leading scholar-critic Giorgio Bertellini divides Kusturica's career into three stages--dissention, disconnection, and dissonance--to reflect both the historic and cultural changes going on around him and the changes his cinema has undergone. He uses Kusturica's Palme d'Or winning Underground (1995)--the famously inflammatory take on Yugoslav history after World War II--as the pivot between the tone of romantic, yet pungent critique of the director's early works and later journeys into Balkanist farce marked by slapstick and a self-conscious primitivism. Eschewing the one-sided polemics Kusturica's work often provokes, Bertellini employs balanced discussion and critical analysis to offer a fascinating and up-to-date consideration of a major figure in world cinema"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""The Art of a Romantic Trickster""; ""Dissention ""; ""Beginnings: A Yugoslav Auteur from Prague ""; ""Historical-Romantic Cinema ""; ""A Yugoslav in America ""; ""Disconnection ""; ""Once upon a Time There Was a Country ""; ""Dissonance ""; ""Cats and Birds ""; ""Super 8 Music ""; ""Life Is a Miracle-He Promises ""; ""Kindred Spirits ""; ""Bridges on the Balkans ""; ""Interviews with Emir Kusturica: A Montage""; ""Filmography""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
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Kusturica, Emir -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Kusturica, Emir. (OCoLC)fst00386217
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film& Video -- History & Criticism.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film& Video -- Direction & Production.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Print version: Bertellini, Giorgio, 1967- Emir Kusturica 9780252038891 (DLC) 2014025160 (OCoLC)877367702 |
| ISBN |
9780252096853 (electronic bk.) |
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0252096851 (electronic bk.) |
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