Albanian Cinema Through the Fall of Communism: Silver Screens and Red Flags

by Bruce Williams

Albanian cinema truly represents a terra incognita for most of the world. Decidedly Europe's most isolated country during the Cold War era, communist Albania had already been cut off from the West for centuries as a one of the western-most outposts of the Ottoman empire. Nonetheless, and unknown to most of the world, communist Albania had a vibrant cinema tradition. Although bound by official orthodoxy, the films of the state-run Kinostudio enterprise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462980152
• ISBN13: 9789462980150
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 246 Pages