Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film : Fires, Foundations, Flourishes

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crnkovic, Gordana P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Former Yugoslav republics--History.

Slavic literature, Southern--Former Yugoslav republics--History and criticism.

Local Subjects:

Motion pictures--Former Yugoslav republics--History.

Slavic literature, Southern--Former Yugoslav republics--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Other Title:

Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.

Summary:

The 1990s violence in the Former Yugoslavia, the worst in Europe since World War II, triggered the conversion of multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and cosmopolitan areas of idiosyncratic and independent socialism into regions of xenophobic nationalism, wars, and, afterwards, Western-style democracy and capitalism. Unified by their artistic response to these cataclysmic changes, post-Yugoslav literary works and films have much to offer the wider world. Crnkovic reveals select post-Yugoslav literary and cinema works as groundbreaking exploratory achievements of global relevance. She presents pos

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Pronunciation Guide; Introduction: Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film, and a Different Kind of Knowledge; 1 Foundations I: While Falling Asleep: A Trace of the Moment in Yugoslavia; 2 Play and the Language of Community Against Rumor and the Guns: Alenka Mirković's 91.6 MHz; 3 Reclaiming Charisma, Resetting the Senses: Vladimir Arsenijević's In the Hold; 4 The Ethics of Listening and the Grounding of a Child: Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain; 5 Foundations II: Eternal Realms and Individual Victims in Ivo Andrić's Ex Ponto and Unrest

6 "The Truthful Road to Me": Short Takes on Six Bosnian Films7 Under the Star of Orwell: Jurica Pavičić's Plaster Sheep and Ante Tomić's Nothing Should Surprise Us; 8 The Museum Spills Out on the Square, the Past's Challenge to the Present: The Films of Vinko Brešan; 9 I am You and You are Me: On Liberating Anti-Nationalism; 10 Pleasant Distractions: The Danger of Close-ups and Maja Weiss's The Border Guard; 11 Foundations III: Success vs. Logic: Miroslav Krleža's On the Edge of Reason; 12 Anarchists Today: The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4411-7586-5

1-4411-1303-7