The Cinema of the Balkans

Dina Iordanova

Paper, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-1-904764-80-9
$29.50

December, 2006
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-1-904764-81-6
Wallflower Press
$80.00

Another in the 24 Frames series, each of these twenty-four essays discusses an individual film from the Balkan region (Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Albania, and the former Yugoslavia-Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Croatia, and Slovenia). These films represent the rich and diverse culture of the Balkans and reveal the stylistic and thematic affinities of a region often perceived as a disconnected cultural space. Films include: Stella (Greece, 1955), Goat's Horn (Bulgaria, 1972), When I Am Dead and Pale (Yugoslavia, 1969), The Red Horse (Yugoslavia, 1984), Stone Wedding (Romania, 1971), and Walter Defends Sarajevo (Yugoslavia, 1972).

Related Subjects

• Film

Series

• 24 Frames

About the Author

Dina Iordanova is chair of film studies at the University of St. Andrews and has published widely on Eastern European, Balkan, and Russian cinema.

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