Question of Identity, Depiction of Ideological Aspirations in the Contemporary Serbian Movies.

Abstract

Abstract

Question of Identity, Depiction of Ideological Aspirations in the Contemporary Serbian Movies.

In the 1990s, the split-up of Yugoslavia culminated in a bloody civil war. The economical recession, the social tensions overwrote the thought of Yugoslavism, as a result of which centralist (Serbian) and separapist (Croatian, Slovenian etc.) views became dominant. The nightmares of the war conflicts, the risings of nationalist aspirations, the social indifference and the painful moments of statelessness, the illusions of the deformed nostalgia – in an explicit and implicit way – set a base for themathics of the contemporary Serbian movies from past quarter-century. The rise of the transitional period of Serbian cinematic culture coincided with the democratization and capitalization of the country. The beginning of information and communication technology development (digitization) can also be registered to this period.