Post-Yugoslav Cinema and the Shadows of War : A Study of Non-Representation in Film (Film Culture in Transition)

Makarevic, Asja

Amsterdam University Press（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 246 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789048559572

Full Description

Bosnia-Herzegovina is still considered a post-war country. The concept of "post-war" implies that the country and its people are tied more strongly to the past than they are oriented towards the future. Paradoxically, as long as the future is kept at bay and the post-war condition kept alive, Bosnia maintains a certain significance on the global scene. However, living in the temporal vacuum of the post-war condition cannot be a long-term perspective. A range of post-Yugoslav films provides spectators with images that offer innovative approaches to the collective past, while simultaneously reframing contemporary experience. What I propose to call non-representational images appears to offer a more dynamic relationship to the past and the present, while reflecting complex processes of the formation of identity, memory, guilt, and responsibility. But if these dynamics are inherent in non-representational images, is there a way in which they can contribute to overcoming the post-war condition?

Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
I Post-Yugoslav Cinema in the Face of Post-War Culture
II Beyond Self-Victimization
III Limitations of Non-Representation
IV Excavating Memories of War
Conclusion
Index