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The links between cinema and war machines have long been established. At the same time, cinema represents an often overlooked yet crucial channel of tackling the difficult themes of post-traumatic memory. This book explores the range, form, and valences of trauma narratives that permeate the most notable narrative films about the breakup of Yugoslavia. It examines how film plays a part in coming to terms with the traumatic effects that wars have on communities by way of forming an archive of publically circulated, mass-mediated cultural memories.

This edited volume explores the cultural life of capitalism in socialist and post-socialist times, in the geo-political context of the former Yugoslavia. It presents a variety of cutting edge work at the intersections of critical cultural studies, material culture, visual culture, neo-Marxist theories, and critiques of neoliberalism in the context of post-socialism. This project is informed by a firm belief that social and cultural practices need to be examined with close attention to local contingencies, particularly in their socio-economic domain. Rather than treating capitalism and...