Mapping the field: towards reading images in the (post- )Yugoslav context -- 'Image games': political imagology and the mimicry of power -- The function of the signifier 'totalitarianism' in the constitution of the 'East Art' field -- New collectives: art networks and cultural policies in post-Yugoslav spaces -- Spraying on gallery walls: graffiti and the art field in Slovenia -- Changing fates: the role of the hero in Yugoslav cinema in the early and late Sixties -- Futur antérieur of Yugoslav cinema, or, Why Emir Kusturica's legacy is worth fighting for -- The nationalistic turn and the visual response in Macedonian art and cinema -- 'Bosnian girl': nationalism and innocence through images of women -- Reinventing Kosovo: newborn and the young Europeans -- Transformation of memorial sites in the post-Yugoslav context -- Titostalgia. On the post-Yugoslav cognitive map -- Symbolic landscape, violence and the normalization process in post-Miloševic Serbia
Summary
Drawing on visual materials (film, art, graffiti, street-art, public advertisement, memorials), the essays of this collection offer detailed views on the cultural and political dynamics that preceded and emerged in the wake of the Yugoslav conflicts of the 1990s
