Twenty Years Later: The War Did (not) Begin at Maksimir. An Anthropological Analysis of the Media Narratives about a Never Ended Football Game Cover Image

Twenty Years Later: The War Did (not) Begin at Maksimir. An Anthropological Analysis of the Media Narratives about a Never Ended Football Game
Twenty Years Later: The War Did (not) Begin at Maksimir. An Anthropological Analysis of the Media Narratives about a Never Ended Football Game

Author(s): Ivan Đorđević
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: football; Maksimir; the media; nationalism; national mythology

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this work is an analysis of the media narratives about the never ended football match between Dynamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade on May 13 1990. The article focuses on the media coverage twenty years after the incident in the context of the game's acquired mythic status, symbolically marking the beginning of the war in former Yugoslavia. The object of the analysis are Serbian and Croatian media with the aim of revealing the strategies of representing this event in the period of the normalization of the relations in the region.

  • Issue Year: LX/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 201-215
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English