{"product_id":"9780252096853","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 \u003cu\u003eUnderground\u003c\/u\u003e (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":47073970979056,"sku":"9780252096853","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780252096853_p0.jpg?v=1763680192","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780252096853","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}