Emir Kusturica Contributor(s): Bertellini, Giorgio (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252080440 ISBN-13: 9780252080449 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Individual Director |
Dewey: 791.430 |
LCCN: 2014025160 |
Series: Contemporary Film Directors (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.61 lbs) 200 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |