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Recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlic in the form of a lexicon of film terms tied to anecdotes spanning Grlic's life. I read a lot this year. Old, new, borrowed, blue. This was the best. The paradox of reading something so avidly that you can't put it down and then I got to the last 20 pages slowing down to a snail's pace and reading so slowly so that it wouldn't be over so quickly. -Mike Downey, European Film Academy From his post-Nazi-era childhood in Yugoslavia to his college years during the 1968 invasion of Prague, the Yugoslav dissolution wars, and his subsequent exile in the United States, these personal stories combine to provide insight into socialist film industries, contextualizing south Slavic film while also highlighting its contacts with Western filmmakers and film industry. From the introduction by Aida Vidan: The one hundred and seventy-seven film terms provide sometimes a direct and at other times a metaphoric path to Grlic's stories and concurrently serve as a self-referential mechanism to comment on a series of film attributes. The entries can be read in any order, allowing for the reader's own montage of the book's universe.... Grlic adroitly captures the absurdities and paradoxes in one's life resulting from the sort of tectonic shifts with which East European history abounds.

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Author:   Rajko Grlic
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781800732414

ISBN 10:   1800732414
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   15 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Rajko Grlic and Cadences of Reality Aida Vidan Preface Lexicon of Untold Tales A Animal Movies Anti-Climax B The Beginning & The End Biopic Black Wave Bollywood Box Office C Cameo Camera Angle Character Arc Chase Movies Children's Movies Cineaste Cinema's Exiles Cinema's Exiles II Cinematography Cliche Close-Up Cold Open Completion Guarantee Continuity Courtroom Movies Courtroom Movies II Courtroom Movies III D Damnatio memoriae Defining Premise Deliverance Dialogue Director Director's Cut Director's Language Documentary (Autobiographical) Double Feature Dream Sequence Dream Sequence II DVD E Editor Entertainment Trade Magazine Epic Movies Epiphany Escape Movies Escape Movies II Establishing Shot Extras F Faces Fade to Black False Ending Festival de Cannes Festival Opening Speech Festival Selector Fiction & Nonfiction Fifty-Fifty Film Critics Film Festival Film History Film Library Filming Permit Film Manifesto Filmmaking Film Style Film Stock Flashback Flash Cutting Foley Food Movies Food Movies II G Gentleman Great Movie Quotes Guarantee H Head & Final Shoot Hollywood Blacklist Horror Movies How to Film in Front of a Mirror How to Make Your Movie I Imaginary line Independent Production In Memoriam In Memoriam II In Memoriam III Intermission Internal Dialogue Invisible Editing Italian Neorealism J Jewish Film Festival Jump Cut L Lady La Paloma Blanca Larger Than Life The Last Picture Show The Last Picture Show II Legal Movies Lifetime Achievement Awards Location Lost Movies Lost in Translation Love Letters Lunatic Asylum Movies M Magic Hour Master Class Maverick Mediterranean Cinema The Melody Haunts My Reverie Military Movies Monolog MOS Movie Star Movie Theatre (Cinema) Movie Violence Movies with a Number in the Title Multimedia N The New Hollywood Newsreel No & Yes Man No & Yes Man II No & Yes Man III O Opening Scene Oscar Oscar II P Paradox Partisan Movies Partisan Movies II Partisan Movies III Performer Phobia Photographer Photographer II Photographer III Photographer IV (& Painter) Plagiarism POV - Point of View Porno Movies Porno Movies II Porno Movies III Pre-Production President Movies Prison Movies Producer Product Placement R Reality Check Research Revenge Movies Road Movie Rock and Roll Documentaries Rome Romantic Comedy Romantic comedy II Rules of the Game Russian Cinema S Script Secret to Great Film Acting Selfie The Seventh Seal Silent Movies Silver Screen Sound Soundstage Isolation Special Screenings Sport Movies Sport Movies II Spy Movies Based-on-True-Story Stage Fright State Award Subtitles Superstar Suspense Sync Sound T Television Third Act Time Timing Travel Movies Twist Ending W Walt Disney Western Wipe Wrap Wrap Party Biography and Filmography Index

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I read a lot this year. Old, new, borrowed, blue. This was the best. The paradox of reading something so avidly that you can't put it down and then I got to the last 20 pages slowing down to a snail's pace and reading so slowly so that it wouldn't be over so quickly. * Mike Downey, European Film Academy This unique and engaging book is both a non-chronological memoir and an idiosyncratic cinematic history textbook of sorts, one that informs the reader about the director's own life, work and creative processes, but also about the broader context of cinema's untold, hidden history through entertaining vignettes and little known (yet important) facts. * Dijana Jelaca, Brooklyn College. Anyone interested in the artists' real and imaginative lives, in European and global cinema and history, or simply in the plethora of inspiring lives and stories-the knowledge of which makes one humbled and grateful-will find this a most fulfilling, joyful read. * Gordana P. Crnkovic, University of Washington

I read a lot this year. Old, new, borrowed, blue. This was the best. The paradox of reading something so avidly that you can't put it down and then then I got to the last 20 pages slowing down to a snail's pace and reading so slowly so that it wouldn't be over so quickly. * Mike Downey, European Film Academy This unique and engaging book is both a non-chronological memoir and an idiosyncratic cinematic history textbook of sorts, one that informs the reader about the director's own life, work and creative processes, but also about the broader context of cinema's untold, hidden history through entertaining vignettes and little known (yet important) facts. * Dijana Jelaca, Brooklyn College. Anyone interested in the artists' real and imaginative lives, in European and global cinema and history, or simply in the plethora of inspiring lives and stories-the knowledge of which makes one humbled and grateful-will find this a most fulfilling, joyful read. * Gordana P. Crnkovic, University of Washington

Author Information

Rajko Grlic is the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Film at Ohio University. Previously, he has taught at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. As an award-winning director, his films have been the subject of numerous scholarly and newspaper articles, and have screened at major film festivals including the Cannes Festival.

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