TRANSFORMATION OF TRAUMATIC CHARACTERS IN POST-YUGOSLAV CINEMA

Year 2018, Issue: 3, 31 - 49, 01.11.2018

Ahmet Ender Uysal

Abstract

This study
examines the changes in Yugoslav cinema had realized from the 1980s to the
2000s, and seeks to see the contributions of the three important post-Yugoslav
directors to the transformation of the cinema characters. The
post-Yugoslav states emerged after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, had
undergoes political and cultural changes as a result of the collapse of the
former Yugoslav socialism and the post-civil war. The post-Yugoslav cinema,
which took its share from these changes, experienced national identity and
modernization crises. The examination of these changes in the cinema with
cinematic characters is also very important in terms of visualizing cultural
and economic changes in cinematic sense. The real problem here is where the
boundary of this change will be drawn. Because, although the characters in the
post-Yugoslavian cinema have been transformed, there is still some cinematic
tradition that continues today. Post-Yugoslav cinema will therefore be
considered in a broad context, with the 1980s era. 

Keywords

Post-Yugoslav cinema, trauma, cinematic characters

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