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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface. A Personal Journey towards and through Albania and Its Cinema
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Albania—The Context for a Little-Known Cinema
- Some words on the Balkans at large and at small
- Albania in a postcolonial context
- Additional words on the complete isolation of Albania
- The arts in Albania
- Albanian cinema and the project of this book
- Films chosen for discussion and analysis
- Structure of the book
- I. The Roots of Cinema in Albania
- The Ottoman Period, Independence, and the Fascist Occupation
- A sequel as a prequel
- The Manaki brothers
- Early filming in Albania
- Mihallaq Mone
- II. The Birth and Development of a Socialist Cinema
- Albania and the Soviet Union
- Albania and the Soviet Union
- Early Albanian newsreels and documentaries
- The training of young film professionals in Moscow and linguistic and continued cultural ties between Albania and the Soviet Union
- Sergei Yutkevich’s Luftëtari i madh i Shqipërisë Skënderbeu/ Великий воин Албании Скандербег/The Great Warrior Skanderbeg: A Soviet-Albanian coproduction
- Another level of documentary: Endri Keko
- Innovation silenced: Viktor Stratobërdha
- Innovation silenced: Viktor Stratobërdha
- Kinostudio’s first feature film: Kristaq Dhamo’s Tana
- Kristaq Dhamo: A coproduction with the Soviet Union
- III. The Flourishing of Kinostudio
- Albania’s Rapprochement with China and Albanian films during the Cultural Revolution
- Enver Hoxha on the arts in a socialist society
- Enver Hoxha on the arts in a socialist society
- Hysen Hasani’s DEBATIK: Children and vigilance
- Feature films of the early to 1960s through 1976
- Ngadhnjim mbi vdekjen/Victory over Death (1967): Heroines of the partisan movement
- Dhimitër Anagnosti’s Duel i heshtur/Silent Duel (1967): A Cold War thriller
- Viktor Gjika’s Clear Horizons/Horizonte të hapura: A hero of the working class
- Viktor Gjika’s Rrugë të bardha/White Roads: The New Man reexplored
- Fehmi Hoshafi and Muhharem Fejzo’s Kapedani/The Captain (1972): In communist Albania, women had the last laugh
- Imagining Albania’s landscape, both bucolic and harsh
- Dhimiter Anagnosti’s Lulëkuqet mbi mure/Red Poppies on the Wall: Totalitarianism defied
- IV. A Cinema in Isolation
- Historical context of the years of isolation
- Thematic diversity of Albanian cinema in the period of isolation
- Xhanfise Keko’s children’s films
- Music and national identity
- Piro Milkani and Kujtim Çashku’s Ballë për ballë/Face to Face: Nostalgia for Soviet friendship The ensuing discussion of Piro
- Kujtim Çashku’s Dora e ngrohtë/The Warm Hand: A wayward youth redeemed
- V. Kinostudio in the Post-Hoxha Era
- Ramiz Alia’s Albania
- Late Kinostudio productions
- Adaptations of Kadare
- A stance against corruption
- Esat Musliu’s Rrethi i kujtesës/The Circle of Memory (1987): Posttraumatic stress and memory loss
- Eduard Makri’s Shpella e piratëve/The Pirate Cave (1990): Childhood and adventure
- Some Words in Conclusion
- Towards an Albanian Cinema of Postcommunism
- Esat Musliu’s Vitet e pritjes/Years of Waiting (1990): Emigration and women
- Towards the future
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index