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Screening trafficking : prudent and perilous
This book examines film and media representations of the social, political, and economic issue of human trafficking, one of the most dramatic challenges of today's globalized world. Hashamova productively combines fieldwork in NGOs in southeastern Europe, social science data, and the analysis of Western and East European anti-trafficking films and media and their reception in the United States and the Balkans. Her book identifies a disconnect between the global flow of trafficking images and their local comprehension. The critical analysis of documentaries, feature films, video clips, and NGOs' media materials and the responses they elicit from spectators reveals the flaws of these products and the ideological structures present both in them and in their audiences.
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Screening Trafficking
This book examines film and media representations of the social, political, and economic issue of human trafficking, one of the most dramatic challenges of today's globalized world. Productively combining field work at NGOs in South Eastern Europe, social science data discussion, and analysis of Western and East European anti-trafficking film and media and their reception in the United States and in the Balkans, Hashamova uncovers the tension between the global flow of trafficking images and their local comprehension. The detailed critical analysis of documentaries, feature films, video clips, and NGOs' media materials and their varied spectators' responses explores the flaws of these products and the ideological structures that define them and their audiences. Acknowledging the uneven quality and potential impact of all films and media products, the book, guided by trauma theory, concludes with an analysis of their effectiveness and ability to shock the viewer and create a citizen who is ready to take action against trafficking. The book seeks to explain why, despite the attention to the problem, communities continue to grapple with indifference, denial, and turning a blind eye to the existence of trafficking. Screening Trafficking: Prudent and Perilous offers fresh insights to readers interested in human trafficking and its representations as well as policymakers who are invested in well-informed decisions.
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Pride and panic
Through the looking-glass of Russian national cinema, Pride and Panic explores Russia's anxious adjustment towards the expansion of Western culture. Russian film is shown, in both its creation and perception, to expose the intriguing dynamics of societal psychological conditions. Using specific film examples, the book delves into the subterranean recesses of Russian national consciousness, exposing an internal ambivalence and complex cultural reaction towards the rise of the West. These fears, fantasies and tremulous anxieties are examined through the representation of the West in films by both established and lesser-known Russian directors. Using a highly original and unorthodox approach, the author parallels the shifting dynamics of attitudes and identity in Russia, caused by globalization, to stages of development in an individual human psyche. The book cohesively unveils the psychological turmoil experienced by Russia towards a change in global relations. A text of particular interest to scholars, students and readers involved with contemporary film and, in particular, Russian cinema and culture.
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Looking for the Balkan (Br)other: The National Gaze in Dzhanik Faiziev's The Turkish Gambit
Dzhanik Faiziev's 2005 The Turkish Gambit, based on Boris Akunin's novel of the same name, presents a spy story unfolding against the backdrop of the Russo‐Turkish War (1877–78) in the Balkans (today's Bulgaria). Bulgarians occupy a particular place in the Russian imagination. During the Russo‐Turkish War, Bulgarians entered the Russian cultural space as southern Orthodox Slavs in need of help. This image changed during the Soviet period, when Bulgaria was considered one of the most faithful Soviet satellites and also a favorite vacation spot which comforted with its familiar culture but offered enough differences with exotic southern touches. The post‐Communist era, the turn of the twentieth century when the novel and film were created, brought more unexpected alterations to the Russian perception of Bulgarians. Analyzing the representation of Bulgaria and Bulgarians in Faiziev's film, I contend that the seemingly reassuring sameness is marked by awkward otherness. I utilize scholarship on Russia's imperial experience in relation to the Caucasus and its patterns of artistic othering in my analysis in order to shed more light on these patterns and reveal their persistent nature. To complicate matters further, I argue that Alexander Etkind's concept of “internal colonization” sheds some light on these alterations but falls short of fully illuminating Russia's post‐Communist national anxieties.
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Western Feature Films and Media
Undoubtedly, in addition to artistic abilities and filmmakers' backgrounds and understanding of marketing and audiences, capital and profit influence the final media or cinematic product. My content analysis of media materials and films reveals that Western, East European, and co-productions all construct stereotypes of trafficking victims and perpetrators, or as Richard Dyer puts it: \"[They] make visible the invisible, so that there is no danger of it creeping up on us unawares\" (2004, 250). Significantly, however, the stereotypes that these films portray differ depending on their production origins and agenda. In his essay \"The Role of Stereotypes,\" Dyer summarizes and expands on the definition of the concept coined by Walter Lippmann. Dyer reiterates Lippmann's four major elements in the construction of stereotypes: \"(i) an ordering process, (ii) a 'short cut,' (iii) referring to 'the world,' and (iv) expressing 'our' values and beliefs\" (Dyer 2004, 246). But what matters for Dyer is not only the construction and its process, but who controls it:
Throughout, I move between the more sociological concern of Lippmann (how stereotypes function in social thought) and the specific aesthetic concerns (how stereotypes function in fictions) that must also be introduced into any consideration of media representations. The position behind all these considerations is that it is not stereotypes, as an aspect of human thought and representation, that are wrong, but who controls and defines them, what interests they serve. (2004, 246)
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