Naslov
Remapping the European Other: Culture and Identity in Contemporary post-Yugoslav cinema

Autori
Borjan, Etami

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
European Cinemas, Intercultural Meetings: Aesthetics, Politics, Industry, History

Mjesto i datum
Kopenhagen, Danska, 13.11.2015. - 14.11.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Podatak o recenziji nije dostupan

Ključne riječi
post-Yugoslav cinemas, European “Other”, post-communist cinema, Balkan cinema

Sažetak
After the Easter European revolutions of 1989, certain Central-East European countries were soon embraced by the West, while other parts, most notably the South-East Europe or the Balkans, were conceived as European Others. In the last two decades the film production in the former Yugoslav countries has reflected colonial and cold war discursive structures. This region was often stereotyped as a primitive, exotic, ambiguous and wild ; a kind of Third World bordering the First World. The “Otherness” of the Balkans is not a purely Western construct. It was gradually adopted by the majority of local filmmakers that followed the trend of self-exoticism and self-denigration in the post-1990 period. This representational mechanism has acquired the epithet “balkanism”. It was soon adopted by few film scholars that coined the term “Balkan cinema” ; a label founded on the idea that the cinemas of South-East Europe could be approached as an entity. Although studies based on cross-cultural representation have contributed to the development of Balkan cinema studies, there has been a significant shift in the last decade from a transnational back to a single-country cinema approach. The aim of the paper is to show how culture and identity in post-Yugoslav countries have been represented on-screen in the last two decades, and how contemporary cinema has responded to the Western representations. The main focus of the paper is to examine how the film production of these peripheral cultures has worked either to consolidate or oppose the hegemonic discourses of the centre. Cultural borders between the former Yugoslav republics are being realigned in the wake of transnational forces and globalism. Therefore, it is necessary to reassess the issues related to the region’s cultural legacy to delineate a more adequate picture of the post-1990 Yugoslav cinemas within the context of European cinema.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Znanost o umjetnosti, Filmska umjetnost (filmske, elektroničke i medijske umjetnosti pokretnih slika)

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