Kinoeye now hosts this PDF e-book on Yugoslav film in the 1990s, edited by Andrew James Horton and with an introduction by Dina Iordanova. Included are essays covering internationally famous films, such as Kusturica's Podzemlje (Underground), Dragojević's Lepa selo, lepo gore (Pretty Village, Prety Flame) and Paskaljević's Bure baruta (Cabaret Balkan), and lesser-known pot-boilers.

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• The book
• Contents

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The book

• The Celluloid Tinderbox: Yugoslav screen reflections of a turbulent decade
  File size: 1.2M / 121 pages

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Contents

I. Introduction
by Dina Iordanova

II. Who Will Take the Blame?
How to make an audience grateful for a family massacre
by Peter Krasztev

III. Critical Mush
The South Bank Show gives Emir Kusturica an easy ride
by Andrew James Horton

IV. "Showtime Brothers!"
A vision of the Bosnian war: Srđan Dragojević's Lepa selo, lepo gore
by Igor Krstić

V. An Aesthetic of Chaos
The blurring of political subtexts in film depictions of the Bosnian war
by Benjamin Halligan

VI. Serbia's Wound Culture
Teenage killers in Milošević's Serbia: Srđan Dragojević's Rane
by Igor Krstić

VII. Vignettes of Violence
Some recent Serbian screen attitudes
by Andrew James Horton

Andrew James Horton