Naslov
Cinema at the Periphery: Redefining Nation and Identity in post-Yugoslav cinemas

Autori
Borjan, Etami

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

Skup
Aesthetics, identity and cultural industry of local cinema: Sardinia and European Peripheries from the 90s Onwards: Comparing Stories of Territories and Sustainable Development

Mjesto i datum
Cagliari, Italija, 13.12.2015. - 16.12.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Podatak o recenziji nije dostupan

Ključne riječi
cinema at the periphery, South Eastern European cinema, post-Yugoslav cinema

Sažetak
The aim of the paper is to present the discrepancies between Eurocentric and local politics of representation of culture and identity in the post-1990 cinema of the former Yugoslav republics. In an attempt to categorize the new cinemas of Southeast Europe on the basis of shared stylistic and thematic affinities, several international and local film critics have coined the term “Balkan cinema”, a label founded on the idea that the cinemas of Southeast Europe could be approached as an entity. However, this term has not been accepted in all the former Yugoslav republics and it was perceived as a derogative. Immediately after the war in the 90’s this area of Southeast Europe was often stereotyped as a primitive, exotic, ambiguous and wild region, a kind of Third World bordering the First World. This type of neocolonial Western perception of the Southeastern periphery influenced significantly the representation of culture and identity in the post-Yugoslav cinema in the first two decades following the breakup of Yugoslavia. The majority of local filmmakers in the 1990s followed the trend of self-exoticism, voluntary self- denigration and compliance with the Western framework of representation. However, these trends have been changing in the last decade with the arrival of the new generation of young filmmakers who question, deconstruct and re-examine the Western notion of Balkan identity and try to promote a new representation of their culture and identity. New post-Yugoslav cinemas combine local aesthetics, cultural contexts, social and geopolitical realities and create new cinematic representations of their own cultures and identities. By combining their local and national knowledge with the recent European and Western trends, young filmmakers challenge hegemonic modes of representation and offer a new and exciting vision of the periphery that does not necessarily represent the European “Other”.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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

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