Retracing Images: Visual Culture After Yugoslavia (Balkan Studies Library, 4)

✍ Scribed by Daniel Suber (editor), Slobodan Karamanic (editor)

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 367
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The essays in this collection disclose cultural and political dynamics as they occurred before and in the wake of Yugoslavia's dissolution (1991-92) by analyzing visual data such as film, art, graffiti, street-art, public advertisement, memorials, and monuments. Within the vast field of Balkan Studies such visual materials have rarely been taken for important empirical evidence. Against the still widely held presumption that the cultural production of allegedly "totalitarian" states such as Yugoslavia can be neglected as they were penetrated by state ideology, the contributions offer a corrective image of the complex ideological dynamics and discoursive potentials in various artistic and cultural fields. Phenomena such as "Titostalgia", nationalist mobilization, nation-branding, rewriting of history, inventing of traditions, and symbolic violence that have surfaced in recent years are interpreted in the light of Yugoslavia's legacy.


Contributors include: Zoran Terzic, Elissa Helms, Miklavz Komelj, Nebojsa Jovanovic, Isabel Ströhle, Sezgin Boynik, Gregor Bulc, Davor Beganovic, Robert Alagjozovski, Gal Kirn, Mitja Velikonja, Daniel Suber, and Slobodan Karamanic.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Figures
Mapping the Field: Towards Reading Images in the (Post-)Yugoslav Context
Part I Art and the Other Scene
‘Image Games’: Political Imagology and the Mimicry of Power
The Function of the Signifijier ‘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
Part II Moving Pictures: Before and After Destruction
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
Part III Images in Retrospect: Creating Memory, Negating History
‘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-Milošević Serbia
Index