Video, war, and the diasporic imagination / Dona Kolar-Panov.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge research in cultural and media studiesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.Description: xvi, 270 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415148804
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23/0994 20
LOC classification:
  • P96.A832 A85 1997
Contents:
1. A Silent Revolution -- 2. The Cultural Functions of Video -- 3. Claiming a Cultural Space -- 4. Re-Inventing Croatia -- 5. Excuse Me What is Genocide? -- 6. Ethnic Cleansing, Plastic Bags and Throwaway People -- 7. Mnemosyne in VCR -- 8. Bridges and Boundaries.
Summary: Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination is an incisive study of the loss and (re)construction of collective and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities. Focusing on the Croatian and Macedonian communities in Western Australia, Dona Kolar-Panov documents the social and cultural changes that affected these diasporic groups due to the fragmentation of Yugoslavia. She vividly describes the migrant audience's daily encounter with the media images of destruction and atrocities committed in Croatia and Bosnia, and charts the implications the continuous viewing of the real and excessive violence had on the awakening of their ethno-national consciousness.
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Ustanove u kojima se publikacija čuva: NSK (Zatvoreno spremište, signatura IC 747.973). ANL (signatura N 302.230994 K81).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-262) and index.

1. A Silent Revolution -- 2. The Cultural Functions of Video -- 3. Claiming a Cultural Space -- 4. Re-Inventing Croatia -- 5. Excuse Me What is Genocide? -- 6. Ethnic Cleansing, Plastic Bags and Throwaway People -- 7. Mnemosyne in VCR -- 8. Bridges and Boundaries.

Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination is an incisive study of the loss and (re)construction of collective and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities. Focusing on the Croatian and Macedonian communities in Western Australia, Dona Kolar-Panov documents the social and cultural changes that affected these diasporic groups due to the fragmentation of Yugoslavia. She vividly describes the migrant audience's daily encounter with the media images of destruction and atrocities committed in Croatia and Bosnia, and charts the implications the continuous viewing of the real and excessive violence had on the awakening of their ethno-national consciousness.

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