Author : Giorgio Bertellini
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096851
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Book Synopsis Emir Kusturica by : Giorgio Bertellini
Download or read book Emir Kusturica written by Giorgio Bertellini and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.