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1 online resource |
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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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Slavic literature, Southern -- Former Yugoslav republics -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures -- Former Yugoslav republics -- History
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion pictures
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Slavic literature, Southern
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Yugoslavia
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1441113037 |
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9781441113030 |
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1441175865 |
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9781441175861 |
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