Reframing Faith in Balkan Documentary Film

History and Religion in Yugoslav Space
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-82082-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Film Studies

Reframing Faith in Balkan Documentary Film presents the first systematic study of the cinematic representations of religion in the early documentary film on the Balkan Peninsula from 1896 to 1939.

By looking at faith through the concept of frame, this book sheds new light on the historical realities of the period as seen by the filmmakers and facilitates rediscovering the world of lost religious communities on the territory of Yugoslavia. Placing film language at the heart of scientific research and introducing the frame as a method of analysis, this book proposes novel ways of reading history as written on the reel.

This intricate and in-depth study will interest film historians, particularly those interested in Balkan and European cinema, as well as historians of the Balkans, religion, and Eastern Europe.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Radovic, Milja

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Dokumentarfilme
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Introduction: Film as History

2. Situating Cinema: Early Film and Artistic Developments

3. The Films: Analysis 1896–1939

4. The Early Documentary Film of the Yugoslav Space

5. Conclusion

Filmography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Milja Radovic is an International Scholar and Principal Investigator (FWF) at the Department of Systematic Theology and Ethics, University of Vienna. She is an active member of Interfilm and serves as a Juror at International Film Festivals including Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno and Karlovy Vary.