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Before the former Yugoslavia was divided by wars, its inhabitants successfully lived side by side in peace. This collection seeks to explain how former neighbors became enemies, with the hope that understanding what drove these peoples apart will help us discover ways for them to coexist in peace again.Contributors analyze political cartoons, psychiatry, the arts, visual media, and law to present a diversity of views on the conflicts in Yugoslavia. While the chapters in this book deal with regional developments, they are not so much focused on politics as they are concerned with how values and attitudes are altered and new identities formed. Thus, this volume goes beyond recent journalistic accounts and should remain relevant for years to come.This book began as a special issue of the journal Anthropology of East Europe Review. Most of the contributors to that issue have revised their chapters for this collection, and new chapters have been added, including one on the recent war in Kosovo. Essays range across all of former Yugoslavia, emphasizing the variability and diversity of ethnic relations throughout its history.Contributors are Mart Bax, Brian C. Bennett, Nikolai Botev, Bette Denich, Elinor Despalatovic, Hannes Grandits, Joel M. Halpern, E. A. Hammel, Robert M. Hayden, Goran Jovanovic, Eva V. Huseby-Darvas, David A. Kideckel, Mirjana Lausevic, Lynn D. Maners, Julie Mertus, Robert Gary Minnich, Rajko Mursic, Edit Petrovic, Christian Promitzer, Mirjana Prosic-Dvornic, Janet Reineck, Jonathan Matthew Schwartz, Andrei Simic, and Stevan M. Weine. ... Read more

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"Disintegration in Frames foregrounds the politics and aesthetics of Balkan cinema for both an academic audience and a more general readership. Levi's impressive command of contemporary cultural studies--its reading practices and theoretical perspectives--at once deepens and amplifies the work of other contemporary film scholars of Balkan cinema, providing a fresh perspective grounded in historiography."
--Catherine Portuges, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"Although the post-Yugoslav war is today half-forgotten, it was never really accounted for: its murderous violence continues to haunt us all. Levi's analysis is one of the few serious attempts at understanding its ideological roots and investments. He does not approach the catastrophe directly, but through its echoes in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cinema. However, far from using cinema just as an external illustration, Levi provides an immanent analysis at the highest theoretical level, detecting ideological dimensions in stylistic shifts and formal procedures. The results are breathtaking. The complicity and involvement of many Yugoslav cineasts celebrated in the West, Emir Kusturica the first among them, is fully demonstrated. In this book, contemporary cinema has definitely lost its politicalinnocence. A book not only for all those interested in today's cinema, but, perhaps even more, for all who want to understand explosions of ethnic violence--and our co-responsibility for it. There are no innocent bystanders in Levi's book!"
--Slavoj Zþizþek

Disintegration in Frames examines the ways in which national identity and interethnic relations are approached, evaluated, and critically dissected in films by directors such as Dusan Makavejev, Emir Kusturica, and Srđan Dragojević; subcultural television and musical performances of the Bosnian pop-art movement New Primitivism; amateur video works made by the returning veterans of the Croatian war; political documentaries chronicling the psychological effects of state socialism; and more. ... Read more

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much needed analysis of Yugoslav and post-Yu cinema
Disintegration in Frames is theoretically insightful, but never too dense to be inaccessible to general readership. The book is a great resource for anyone interested in the role of cinema in the formation of Yugoslav ethno-nationalisms (and cinema as a reflection of these ethno-nationalisms). The book is full of fun insights, such as the discussion of phallic connotations of the Yugoslav ritual of carrying "the baton of youth," and the reference to such pan-Yugoslav rituals in the work of New Primitivs in late 1980s and early 1990s: "sucking of the pole". The chapter on Yugoslav "black wave" is extremely insightful for anyone interested in the works of such masters as Dusan Makavejev, Zelimir Zilnik and Karpo Godina. Levi's critique of Emir Kusturica's work sets high standards for future scholarship on this director's work. Highly recommended. ... Read more

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Chapters: Popular Music in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, New Wave Music in Yugoslavia, Tamburica, Love Hunters, Laboratorija Zvuka, Bilo Jednom..., Vojvodina Academy of Sciences and Arts, International Novi Sad Literature Festival, Radio Television of Vojvodina, Coat of Arms of Vojvodina, Cinema City, Obojeni Program, Music of Vojvodina, Yu Rock Misija, Association of Writers of Vojvodina, Flag of Vojvodina, Ja Sam Rođen Tamo Na Salašu, Music of Yugoslavia, University of Novi Sad, Zvonik, Skamija, Muzika Poludelih, Njiva, Matica Srpska, Apsolutno Romantično, Garavi Sokak, Hambar, Dnevnik, Serbian National Theatre, Bećarac, Azbukum, Građanski List, Kobasicijada, Magyar Szó, Museum of Vojvodina, Hrvatska Riječ, Palić Film Festival, Bunjevačke Novine. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 149. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: SFR Yugoslav pop and rock scene includes the pop and rock music of SFR Yugoslavia (a state that existed until 1991) including all their genres and subgenres. The scene included the constituent republics: SR Slovenia, SR Croatia, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Montenegro, SR Macedonia and SR Serbia and its subunits: SAP Vojvodina and SAP Kosovo. The pop and rock scene was a part of the general Music of Yugoslavia, which also included folk, classical music, jazz etc. Within Yugoslavia and internationally, the phrase ex Yugoslav Pop and Rock both formally and informally always refers to the SFRY period only, not including Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992-2003). The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was not an Eastern Bloc country, but a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement and as such, it was far more opened to western influences comparing to the other socialist states. The western-influenced pop and rock music was socially accepted, th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10632302 ... Read more

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Artwork by Marina Abramovic. Contributions by Thomas McEvilley, Bojana Pejic, Toni Stoos. ... Read more

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Velimir Karan escapes from Yugoslavia to the “faroff’ world and dreams of opportunity. Rootless and displaced, he’s rejected in his attempt to immigrate to the United States but accepted as a farm labourer to Canada. Here’s a gritty, humorous view into the community of ethnic workers, their view of Canada and their mother countries. Velimir goes to school and Canadianizes his name to Val Karran, seeking somewhere to belong, justifi cation for a life – redemption. Still an outsider, he travels the world, revisits his home town in Yugoslavia only to discover he doesn’t belong there, either. Returning to Canada, he’s employed as a civil servant, marries and has children. His reputation for reliable but unimaginative work advances his career but he still feels an outsider. A trip to the United Nations as Canada’s Human Rights Co-ordinator gives him an air of success – which he tries to reconcile with the weight of his past as a refugee, his present as a cog in a stiffling bureaucracy. Life and death, humour and insight, survival and obsession, prose and poetry: a classic Serbian epic tale underlies this deceptively modem novel based on a true experience. ... Read more

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Notes from the Underground: The Cinema of Emir Kusturica is the first book on the Sarajevan film-maker to be published in English. With six highly acclaimed films to his credit, Kusturica is already established as one of the most important of contemporary filmmakers. Underground won the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival and Arizona Dream with Johnny Depp won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Including his most recent film, Black Cat, White Cat, this book delves into diverse facets of Kusturica´s work, all of which is passionately dedicated to the marginal and the outcast. ... Read more

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These essays assess the impact of cultural values on managerial policies and practices in organizations as well as the interaction of social, economic, and political institutions in both highly developed and developing countries. A comparison is drawn between the evolution of Yugoslav and United States policies and processes. The authors conclude that while both countries have a strong commitment to the importance and role of the individual, this commitment takes different forms and is still evolving. United States management policies and practices are much stronger in Yugoslavia. However, both countries' national and firm policies and practices are heavily influenced by international trade and commerce, which in turn affect cultural values and management policies and practices. ... Read more

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8vo Paperback: glossy pictoral wraps. 16 essays: Vlado Gotovac, The Defence of Dubrovnik; Slobodan Prosperov Novak, Theorem about the Egg; Bozidar Violic, Harshness vs. Harmony; Ivo Banac, Dubrovnik and Vukovar; Luko Paljetak, The City of Measure / A Donna Flora (Lamento sopra le spoglie incerite del parco di Cannosa..); Andre Glucksmann, La lumiere noire; Jean D'Ormesson, Une petite tache sur l'Europe; Hrvoje Kacic, Dubrovnik and the Calamities of War; Igor Zidic, The Siege of Dubrovnik and City's Wounds (Letter to an Italian Friend); Ivo Franges, The Presence of Dubrovnik; Kathleen V. Wilkees, Jus in bello; Tonko Maroevic, Dubrovnik Besieged; Zvonimir Mrkonjic, The Burnt Land; Maren Frejdenberg, Dubrovnik's Destiny; Colin Kaiser, Dubrovnik: When the War is over; Bruno Carnez, Qui t'a permis d'etre aussi belle? A Dubrovnik; with a chronology of wartime events; illustrated with many photographs and maps in colour and b/w. ... Read more