TY - CHAP
T1 - "Organized Bestial Gangs" - The Second World War and Images of Betrayal in Yugoslav Socialist Cinema
AU - Andersen, Tea Sindbæk
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This chapter investigates how the difficult sides of Yugoslavia’s Second World War history, including questions of collaboration and betrayal, civil war, and mass atrocities against civilians, have been addressed in Yugoslav war films of the socialist period. Looking at films from different periods of Yugoslav socialism, Tea Sindbæk Andersen points out how images of traitors and collaborators developed and explores how these changes relate to the main developments within political and historical discussions about the war in Socialist Yugoslavia. The chapter argues that war films were a powerful medium for representations of the past, not least because of the high quality of Yugoslav cinema. Moreover, some war films were among the most daring and sophisticated attempts to rethink Yugoslav wartime history. These films have thus contributed significantly to the cultural memory of Yugoslavia’s Second World War as well as to the ways in which traitors and collaborators have been remembered.
AB - This chapter investigates how the difficult sides of Yugoslavia’s Second World War history, including questions of collaboration and betrayal, civil war, and mass atrocities against civilians, have been addressed in Yugoslav war films of the socialist period. Looking at films from different periods of Yugoslav socialism, Tea Sindbæk Andersen points out how images of traitors and collaborators developed and explores how these changes relate to the main developments within political and historical discussions about the war in Socialist Yugoslavia. The chapter argues that war films were a powerful medium for representations of the past, not least because of the high quality of Yugoslav cinema. Moreover, some war films were among the most daring and sophisticated attempts to rethink Yugoslav wartime history. These films have thus contributed significantly to the cultural memory of Yugoslavia’s Second World War as well as to the ways in which traitors and collaborators have been remembered.
UR - http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319664958
UR - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-66496-5
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-3-319-66495-8
T3 - Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
SP - 265
EP - 283
BT - Traitors, Collaborators and Deserters in Contemporary European Politics of Memory. Formulas of Betrayal
A2 - Grinchenko, Gelinada
A2 - Narvselius, Eleonora
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -