"Social horror": A critical analysis of ideological and poetic function of the motive of victim in the contemporary Serbian film
This paper analyses achievements of Serbian cinematography after 2000, which narrative strategies and visual aesthetics are focused on the issues of violence and victims in the context of social despair, post-communist transition and ongoing global value crisis. Films made by Mladen Đorđevi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Victimology Society of Serbia and Prometej-Beograd
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Temida |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-6637/2016/1450-66371602309K.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper analyses achievements of Serbian cinematography after 2000, which
narrative strategies and visual aesthetics are focused on the issues of
violence and victims in the context of social despair, post-communist
transition and ongoing global value crisis. Films made by Mladen Đorđević
Life and Death of a Porn Gang (2009), Srđan Spasojević A Serbian Movie
(2010), and Marko Novaković Menagerie (2012) integrate these complex
characteristics of disintegration of Serbian community and dysfunctional
state system into their cinematic poetics. These films present examples of
radical film aesthetics, which, through strategies of making things unusual,
and the influence of underground, pornography and horror on the realistic
drama, speak about permanently traumatised Serbian society. They directly
connect collective political state and the domain of personal, family,
intimate and sexual, controversially relying on the images and narratives of
gender misogyny and the violence it produces and its victims. The paper
critically approaches these issues from the gender- feminist perspective. |
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| ISSN: | 1450-6637 2406-0941 |