{"product_id":"emir-kusturica-1","title":"Emir Kusturica","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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54187420713304,"sku":null,"price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780252080449_ce21e7b7-c18b-4072-80a3-fe1dffcbd49c.jpg?v=1779860745","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/emir-kusturica-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}