Dislocated Screen Memory Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema [Hardcover]

Introduction: War Trauma as Screen Memory
1. Yugoslavia ' 's Wars, Cinema, and Screen Trauma
2. Unsettling Empathies: Screen, Gender, and Traumatic Memory
3. Happily Sick: Trauma, Nation, and Queer Affect
4. Post-Yugoslav Heritage Cinema and the Futurity of Nostalgia
5. Youth (Sub)Cultures and the Habitus of Postmemory
Conclusion: The Child, the Quiest War Film, and the Power of Alternative Scenarios

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. Jela1as 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 in its 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, makilƒ¼