"Stoil examines film in Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia, and to a lesser extent Albania (where cinema is scarce and the authorities only minimally cooperative), conducting interviews, viewing films and searching through archives and other materials in order to explain long-term changes in content beca ... use of its use by the regimes as a policy-making tool. The first half of the book discusses the impact of the national cinematic traditions, ideology and industry structure on political content of film in general; the latter half examines changing trends in content over the years through a genre-by-genre look at Balkan feature films. Notes, bibliography, filmography and index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1494) more

"This is an accourt of filmmaking in Eastern Europe in which Stoil has combined film criticism with political and social analysis. The film history of the Soviet Union is considered apart from that of other Communist states in the region: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumani ... a and Albania, with East Germany omitted because it is basically in the Western tradition. Intended as an introduction for students and laymen unfamiliar with the subject. There is a bibliography of works available in English, an index of films and a general index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1495) more