Post-Yugoslav literature and film fires, foundations, flourishes Gordana P. Crnkovic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crnković, Gordana P., 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Slavic literature, Southern.

Motion pictures--Former Yugoslav republics--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London Continuum International Publishing Group 2012.

Language Note:

English

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 post-Yugoslav literature and film as art that makes us aware of previously unconsidered things that bring us wars, and those that constitute part of the tapestry of peace. She foregrounds the radical potential of art to change and enrich the global landscapes of concepts, sensitivities, and politics. As such her book is important not only for those interested in this region, but also for all those wanting to discover and engage with world literature and cinema, and willing to encounter the potential of great new art to illuminate and challenge the world we live in

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Pronunciation Guide

Introduction

Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film, and a Different Kind of Knowledge

Chapter 1 Foundations I

While Falling Asleep: A Trace of the Moment in Yugoslavia

Chapter 2

Play and the Language of Community Against Rumor and the Guns: Alenka Mirkovic's 91.6 MHz

Chapter 3

Reclaiming Charisma, Resetting the Senses: Vladimir Arsenijevic's In the Hold

Chapter 4

The Ethics of Listening and the Grounding of a Child: Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain

Chapter 5 Foundations II

Eternal Realms and Individual Victims in Ivo Andric's Ex Ponto and Unrest

Chapter 6

"The Truthful Road to Me": Short Takes on Six Bosnian Films

Chapter 7

Under the Star of Orwell: Jurica Pavicic's Plaster Sheep and Ante Tomic's Nothing Should Surprise Us

Chapter 8

The Museum Spills Out on the Square, the Past's Challenge to the Present: The Films of Vinko Brešan

Chapter 9

I am You and You are Me: on Liberating Anti-Nationalism

Chapter 10

Pleasant Distractions: The Danger of Close-ups and Maja Weiss's The Border Guard

Chapter 11 Foundations III

Success vs. Logic: Miroslav Krleža's On the Edge of Reason

Chapter 12

Anarchists Today: The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-290) and index

ISBN:

9781472542717

1472542711

1-4411-7586-5

1-4411-1303-7

OCLC:

889999620