How to Escape? The Trap of the Transition in the Recent Cinema of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2000-2012) Cover Image

How to Escape? The Trap of the Transition in the Recent Cinema of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2000-2012)
How to Escape? The Trap of the Transition in the Recent Cinema of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2000-2012)

Author(s): Tomasz Rawski, Katarzyna Roman
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bosnian cinema; social escapism; postwar society

Summary/Abstract: The paper concerns the latest cinema of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2000-2012). Focusing on the cinema of social criticism (represented by movies which try to rethink the new socio-political order gradually emerging in BiH after the war of 1992-95), the authors recognize the Bosnian society as a community captured in the trap of an unfinished system transition. The story of the Bosnian society, simultaneously stuck in a dysfunctional and oppressive state and completely devoid of any prospects for the improvement of this situation, seems to be dominated by several escape strategies into an alternative reality: the nostalgic past, the imagined present or the utopian future. In that sense, the Bosnian cinema of social criticism turns out to be a cinema of social escapism.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 193-206
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English