Disintegration in Frames
Subtitle: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: February 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780804753685
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; c 1990 to c 2000; Literary Criticism; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Yugoslavia & former Yugoslavia; Eastern European; Film & Video - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Former Yugoslav republics; History; Motion pictures; Yugoslavia
Description: "Disintegration in Frames examines the ways in which national identity and interethnic relations are approached, evaluated, and critically dissected in films by directors such as Dusan Makavejev, Emir Kusturica, and Srdjan Dragojevic; subcultural television and musical performances of the Bosnian pop art movement New Primitivism; amateur video works made by the returning veterans of the Croatian war; political documentaries chronicling the psychological effects of state socialism; and more."--Jacket.