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Post-Yugoslav Cinema: Towards a Cosmopolitan Imagining
Dino Murtic
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Description for Post-Yugoslav Cinema: Towards a Cosmopolitan Imagining
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
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
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137520340
SKU
V9781137520340
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About Dino Murtic
Dino Murtic teaches Critical Literacy, Information Skills and Film courses at the University of South Australia.
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