Post-Yugoslav Cinema: Towards a Cosmopolitan Imagining
Dino Murtic
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Drawing primarily on selected filmic texts from former-Yugoslavia, the book examines key social and political events that triggered the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s. Yugoslav politics and society are set within the broader artistic and cinematic strategies that helped stabilise post-Yugoslav territories strategies that were part of the national desire of looking forward to a time of 'perpetual peace' and its subsequent cosmopolitan norms. It argues that filmic texts demonstrate the degree to which nationalism was at the heart of the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia. Yet, the concern of the argument is not simply to offer a filmic critique but ... Read more
Drawing primarily on selected filmic texts from former-Yugoslavia, the book examines key social and political events that triggered the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s. Yugoslav politics and society are set within the broader artistic and cinematic strategies that helped stabilise post-Yugoslav territories strategies that were part of the national desire of looking forward to a time of 'perpetual peace' and its subsequent cosmopolitan norms. It argues that filmic texts demonstrate the degree to which nationalism was at the heart of the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia. Yet, the concern of the argument is not simply to offer a filmic critique but ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349581474
SKU
V9781349581474
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99-15
About Dino Murtic
Dino Murtic teaches Critical Literacy, Information Skills and Film courses at the University of South Australia.
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