[Commlist] New book: Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits

We are very pleased to announce the publication of a new edited 
collection on Balkan cinemas! Please see below for more details about 
the content and the authors.

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*“Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits”*

The book offers a critical and comprehensive analysis of post-2008 
Balkan cinema through a transnational and cross-cultural approach. 
Includes chapters on the cinemas of all countries in the Balkans.

Edited by Lydia Papadimitriou and Ana Grgić

Foreword by Dina Iordanova

Contributions by Bruce Williams and Kledian Myftari, Dijana Jelača, 
Gergana Doncheva, Jurica Pavičić and Aida Vidan, Costas Constantinides 
and Yiannis Papadakis, Maria Chalkou, Francesca Borrione and Albana 
Muco, Sanja Jovanović, Vessela S. Warner, Raluca Iacob, Nevena Daković, 
Aleksandra Milovanović and Iva Leković, Polona Petek, and Mehlis Behlil.

The first inclusive collection to examine post-2008 developments in 
Balkan cinema, this book brings together a number of international 
scholars to explore its industrial contexts and textual dimensions. With 
a focus on transnational links, global networks and cross-cultural 
exchanges, the book addresses the role of national and supranational 
institutions as well as film festival networks in supporting film 
production, distribution and reception in the region. Through examples 
of recent fiction and documentary film productions, the authors identify 
key characteristics of subject matter and aesthetics of Balkan films 
made since the global economic crisis. Through critical and 
comprehensive country profiles that consider both art and popular films, 
the collection argues for the continuing relevance of the concept of 
‘Balkan cinema’.

Key features:

·Comprehensive account of all national cinemas from the Balkan region

·Emphasis on co-productions, transnational exchanges and global circulation

·Reference tables on national and regional film supporting institutions 
and film festivals

·Focus on small and as-yet underrepresented cinemas, such as Montenegro, 
Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Albania

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 Musica/l (2006), co-edited /Greek Cinema: 
Texts, Forms and Identities/ (2011), and is the Principal Editor of the 
/Journal of Greek Media and Culture/.

Ana Grgić, PhD (University of St Andrews) is Visiting Associate 
Professor at the Department of Cinema and Media, Babeș-Bolyai 
University. She has published widely on East European and Balkan cinema, 
and is currently Associate Editor of /Studies in World Cinema: A 
Critical Journal/. Her monograph on early cinema in the Balkans is 
forthcoming with Amsterdam University Press.

Reviews:

/Offering an imaginative and convincing reconceptualisation of Balkan 
cinema, this volume brings to life the rich results of efforts by 
talented filmmakers and committed film industry professionals in 
thirteen countries. Capacious in scope, the book examines films, but 
also, crucially, the forging, since 2008, of productive, collaborative 
links across the Balkan region. An uplifting and inspiring read, 
Contemporary Balkan Cinema shows us how thoughtful and resilient 
practitioners have sought to overcome multiple challenges including 
small nationhood and political impasse, and achieve the means for 
meaningful, sustainable filmmaking./

– Mette Hjort, Hong Kong Baptist University

//

/This is an exceptionally timely book that both updates and innovates 
the notion of Balkan cinema. Taking the financial crisis of 2008 as its 
starting point – rather than postcommunism, which has lost its 
significance – this collection offers new interpretation of the cinema 
of the Balkans and forms new constellations within these fast growing, 
intertwined cinema industries. There is a gap in current research on 
Balkan cinema, which has splintered into various national cinemas, and 
this volume patently fills this gap by insisting on inclusiveness in 
accounting for the region’s cinema production. This book will 
undoubtedly be a key resource for the study of Balkan cinema in the future./

– Lars Kristensen, University of Skövde, Sweden

/This comprehensive and outstandingly-organized collection studies a 
dynamic segment of the European cinema and inspires its rethinking in a 
global context. It insightfully regards the year 2008 as a game-changer 
in the filmmaking practices of the region and stands out for its 
ambition to trace cross-border cultural fertilizations and highlight 
transnational cooperation./

– Constantin Parvulescu, Babeș-Bolyai University

Published by Edinburgh University Press

Publication date: November 2020

328 pages + 46 photos

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