Dislocated Screen Memory
Subtitle: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 10, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781137515773
Description: "The links between cinema and war machines have long been established. At the same time, cinema represents an often overlooked, yet crucial channel of tackling the difficult themes of post-traumatic memory. This book explores the range, form, and valences of trauma narratives that permeate the most notable narrative films about the breakup of Yugoslavia. It examines how film plays a part in coming to terms with the traumatic effects that wars have on communities, by ways of forming an archive of publically circulated, mass-mediated cultural memories"--
Notes: Source title: Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema (Global Cinema)