"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 because 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)