TWO NEW BOOKS UNDER THE KINO.BG PROJECT
The books can be “downloaded” from the LIBRARY section of the site – https://bgkino.com
FROM LUNA AD TO THE CINEMA EDUCATION IN VILLAGES. INDUSTRIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL IN BULGARIAN CINEMA BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS by Petar Kardjilov contains eight studies devoted to little-researched and completely unknown topics from the history of Bulgarian cinema in the 1920s and 1930s. They reveal not only the creative achievements, however modest, of the Bulgarian cinema pioneers, but also the lifestyle, social, and cultural atmosphere of the time with the author's characteristic rich factuality and fascination. This was the era when the first cinema schools, production unions of filmmakers, professional organisations and cinema institutions emerged. The reader is presented with a vast panorama of Bulgarian film life, filled with daring dreamers, clever combinators, and inspired entrepreneurs who never give up and are ready to sacrifice everything to lay the foundations of Bulgarian cinema.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN ON VITOSHA. THE SHAPING OF FILM CULTURE IN BULGARIA AND THE BALKANS BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS is an attempt to describe and analyse, in a collection of studies and articles, the emergence of national film culture in the Balkans during the interwar years. The focus is on the processes developing on the territory of the Kingdom of Bulgaria in the interaction of cinema with other arts, media, and the main state institutions. For a clearer contextualisation, examples are taken from two neighbouring countries closest in mentality: Vardar Macedonia, then part of the Serbian-Croatian Kingdom, and the Greek city of Thessaloniki. The collection attempts to fill the lack of interdisciplinary research that examines the development of cinema against the background of the cultural and social processes typical of the nation-state in the Balkans in this particular historical period. The research contributes to a more nuanced understanding of both the specific historical period and the present day. Knowledge of the past remains an indispensable requirement for understanding modern challenges and perspectives.
The book is published in English. Edited by: Alexander Donev, reviewers: Petya Aleksandrova, Gergana Doncheva. Editor of the English text and additional translations: Petar Galabov.
