Framing the Periphery: Unveiling the Balkans’ cinematic legacy beyond the center (Book review of “Charlie Chaplin on Vitosha: The Shaping of Film Culture in Bulgaria and the Balkans Between the World Wars”) Cover Image

Рамкиране на периферията: разкриване на кинематографичното наследство на Балканите отвъд центъра (Рецензия на „Чарли Чаплин на Витоша: Формирането на филмовата култура в България и на Балканите между световните войни“)
Framing the Periphery: Unveiling the Balkans’ cinematic legacy beyond the center (Book review of “Charlie Chaplin on Vitosha: The Shaping of Film Culture in Bulgaria and the Balkans Between the World Wars”)

Author(s): Peter Ayolov
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Photography, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Visual Arts, Book-Review, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: cinema; Bulgaria; Balkan cinema; film; culture

Summary/Abstract: This review of “Charlie Chaplin on Vitosha: The Shaping of Film Culture in Bulgaria and the Balkans Between the World Wars” traces sixteen interconnected studies that chart the rise of Balkan cinema in the interwar years, beginning with an opening essay that situates Bulgaria alongside its neighbors in forging a distinctive film culture shaped by innovation, ambition, and regional exchange. Some early reflections on modernist and avant-garde movements illuminate the ideological ferment that provided fertile ground for cinematic experimentation in the Balkans between the wars.

  • Issue Year: 2025
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 106-110
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English
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