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- Title
SPECTRAL POLITICS IN EMIR KUSTURICA'S UNDERGROUND.
- Authors
Giannopoulou, Zina
- Abstract
The article analyze the film "Underground" by Emir Kusturica which examines the history of the former Yugoslavia in a state of war from the 1940s to the 1990s as a palimpsest of catastrophes. It examine audiovisual and narrative excess sparked a domestic and international controversy and film propagates Balkanism by depicting the impaired moral standards innate in the Balkan social character. It also mentions extravagance as impulse to a utopian and nostalgic pan-Yugoslavism.
- Subjects
BALKAN Peninsula; UNDERGROUND (Film); KUSTURICA, Emir; NARRATIVES; SOCIAL character
- Publication
Film & History (03603695), 2022, Vol 52, Issue 2, p4
- ISSN
0360-3695
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/flm.2022.0014