Bruce Williams

Albanian Cinema through the Fall of Communism

Silver Screens and Red Flags

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book opens with examinations of moving images in Albania from the Ottoman period, through those captured under independence and the Fascist occupation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9789462980150
• ISBN-10: 9462980152
• Artikelnr.: 74749452

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
Index