Balkan Cinema and the Great Wars: Our Story

Abstract

Cover -- Copyright information -- Our Wars: A Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. WWI and Balkan Cinema -- 1. A Common Grounds among the Trenches? European Melodramas around WW1 and Their Impact on Balkan Film Style -- Concluding Remarks: A Common Ground "Among the Trenches"? -- References -- 2. Transmedia Storytelling of the Great War -- References -- 3. Verbal Information vs. Iconic Information in Duty and Sacrifice -- 4. WWI in Romanian Literary Screen Adaptations -- 5. "The Sweepings of Bucharest, Wretches Picked Up Off the Streets and Caf é s": Framing of Wartime Experience in Through the Ashes of the Empire (Andrei Blaier, 1976) -- Introduction -- The Social Imaginary of War -- The Individualization of the Cinematic Representation of War -- Reflexive Evaluation of War -- The Myth of Unity: Sentimental and Rational Displays -- War and the Experience of Otherness -- Conclusion -- References -- 6. Cinematographic Activity on the Romanian Territory of Dobrudja during the Presence of Bulgarian Troops at the Time of WWI (1916-1918) -- The Tutrakan Epic on Film (1916) -- Cinema in Babadag (1917-1918) -- Travelling Frontline Cinematographers -- 1918: The Heroes Are Tired… -- 7. Ecaterina Teodoroiu's Mythologization in Romanian Films -- Introduction: Mythologizing Background -- Mythologizing Patterns -- Filmic Representations of the Heroine from Jiu -- Emasculated heroine -- Frail femininity -- Androgynous warrior -- Conclusive Remarks -- References -- II. WWII and Balkan Cinema -- 8. Romania on the 1941-1944 Eastern Battlefield -- 9. Specialized Wartime Publications for Cinema in Bulgaria (1941-1944) -- Film (1942-1944) -- White and Black (1943) -- 10. Metaphors of War in Romanian Animation Films -- References -- 11. The Nostradamus of Cinema: Benjamin Fondane and the Poetics of Films -- Context -- Benjamin Fondane's Life.