The National Folklore Festival of Gjirokastër: An Analysisof its Audiovisual Representation
The Gjirokastra National Folklore Festival has been the most important showcase forstaged performances of traditional expressive culture during the Communist regime. Itwas held every five years in Gjirokastër from 1968. More than 1500 people participated,and almost all Albanian institutions - on loc...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre for Southeast European Studies
2024-10-01
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| Series: | Contemporary Southeastern Europe |
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| Online Access: | https://resolver.obvsg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubg:4-56905 |
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| Summary: | The Gjirokastra National Folklore Festival has been the most important showcase forstaged performances of traditional expressive culture during the Communist regime. Itwas held every five years in Gjirokastër from 1968. More than 1500 people participated,and almost all Albanian institutions - on local and central levels – were involved in theorganization. Alongside, an entire machinery of media coverage was involved, from soundand audiovisual recordings for scholarly purposes to TV broadcasting and the productionof documentaries and feature films. My focus is the documentaries produced for each ofthe five editions, now found in the Albanian Film Archive. Through these films, we engagewith the Festival as an event per se and not just as a scene for staged traditionalexpressive culture. This can shed light on different aspects of audiovisual representation,that is, how it has been captured, shaped, and represented as a cinematic experience. Thisis not supposed to be just a film analysis but a way of simultaneously engaging andinterpreting what we see and hear, through a conjunction between film studies,ethnomusicology and anthropology. |
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| ISSN: | 2310-3612 |