Contemporary Balkan cinema
transnational exchanges and global circuits

This edited collection examines post-2008 developments in Balkan cinema in terms of aesthetics and industry. It provides critical and comprehensive profiles of the cinematic output in each Balkan country, while stressing transnational links, global networks and cross-cultural exchanges.

Intro -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Traditions in World Cinema -- Foreword: Cinema of the Balkans - An Endless Journey -- Introduction -- 1. Albania: Crossing Borders with a New Imaginary -- 2. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Challenging Precarity, Rethinking Trauma -- 3. Bulgaria: Reframing Contemporary Arthouse and Mainstream Cinema -- 4. Croatia: Film under Ideological Pressure - The State, Its Citizen and the Faltering Future -- 5. Cyprus: Transnational Challenges, Opportunities and Compromises -- 6. Greece: Transnational Dynamics in Greek Cinema since the Crisis -- 7. Kosovo: Cinematic Developments between Conflicts and Social Transformation -- 8. Montenegro: A Small, Open and Forward-looking Film Industry -- 9. North Macedonia: A Nation and Cinema in Transition -- 10. Romania: Transnational and National Tensions Beyond the New Wave -- 11. Serbia: Reco(r)ding the Cinematic Turn -- 12. Slovenia: A Small National Cinema in the Phase of Transnational Synergy -- 13. Turkey: Transnational Dimensions of a Large National Film Industry -- Tables -- General Bibliography -- Index.