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Dislocated Screen Memory

Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema

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  1. Dijana Jelača
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Part of the book series: Global Cinema (GLOBALCINE)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: War Trauma as Screen Memory

    • Dijana Jelača
    Pages 1-25

  3. Yugoslavia’s Wars, Cinema, and Screen Trauma

    • Dijana Jelača
    Pages 27-58

  4. Unsettling Empathies: Screen, Gender, and Traumatic Memory

    • Dijana Jelača
    Pages 59-102

  5. Happily Sick: Trauma, Nation, and Queer Affect

    • Dijana Jelača
    Pages 103-136

  6. Post-Yugoslav Heritage Cinema and the Futurity of Nostalgia

    • Dijana Jelača
    Pages 137-181

  7. Youth (Sub)Cultures and the Habitus of Postmemory

    • Dijana Jelača
    Pages 183-218

  8. Conclusion: The Child, the Quiet War Film, and the Power of Alternative Scenarios

    • Dijana Jelača
    Pages 219-237

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 239-275
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About this book

The links between cinema and war machines have long been established. This book explores the range, form, and valences of trauma narratives that permeate the most notable narrative films about the breakup of Yugoslavia.

Reviews

“Dislocating Screen Memory offers an innovative approach to understanding the violence, gender-relations, and explicit and implicit war-memories that are reflected in the cinema of the Balkans. Jelača’s book is a well-structured, detailed work, a long-awaited contribution on post-war Yugoslav cinema and in general, the way memory and trauma intertwine on screen.” (Anna Batori, Apparatus, Issue 7, 2018)

“Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema (Palgrave 2016) is the first study that thematically gathers twenty-odd years of Balkan cinematography by giving an analytic voice to highly complex and sophisticated webs of traumatic representation. … The importance of the book lies not only inits fresh insights on the dominant tropes of representation that emerged in post-Yugoslav films … but also in its approach to trauma. … brings much needed attention to marginalized themes and marginalized films.” (Dragana Obradovic, Balkanist, balkanist.net, May, 2016)

"Dislocated Screen Memory is a welcome addition to the growing literature on post-conflict cinema. Focusing on films from the countries of ex-Yugoslavia, the book deftly and delicately explores much contested affective and political terrain, making the reader see how the traumatic aftermath of a civil war all too easily blurs distinction between victims and perpetrators, as each side lays claim to victimhood. At once erudite and empathetic, the book makes an excellent case for the cinema as a factor for truth and an agent of testimony." - Thomas Elsaesser, author of German Cinema - Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory Since 1945

About the author

Dijana Jela?a is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Communication and Theater at St. John s University, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dislocated Screen Memory

  • Book Subtitle: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema

  • Authors: Dijana Jelača

  • Series Title: Global Cinema

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137502537

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51577-3Published: 10 November 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50253-7Published: 26 January 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2634-5951

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-596X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 275

  • Topics: European Cinema and TV, Film History, Cultural History

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