Trauma and cinematographic imagination: the case study of Srebrenica

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE
Author/s Silvia Badon
Publishing Year 2018 Issue 2018/55
Language Italian Pages 13 P. 104-116 File size 196 KB
DOI 10.3280/SC2018-055007
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The article deals with the relationship between trauma and artistic representa-tion, particularly cinematographic. The absence of a fictional cinematographic im-agination that re-elaborates, through the fictional setting, a historical tragedy is here interpreted as a symptom of a collective trauma that has not found yet a form of narration. The author analyzes, as a case study, Srebrenica and the memory of what happened there during the war in Bosnia Herzegovina (1992-1995). She investigates the lack of a cinematographic imagination on Srebrenica, starting from the only fiction film that, setting the story elsewhere, is considered as a testimony of the traumatic aftermath.

Keywords: Film, trauma, Srebrenica, former Yugoslavia, memory, war.

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Silvia Badon, Trauma e immaginario cinematografico: il caso di Srebrenica in "SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE " 55/2018, pp 104-116, DOI: 10.3280/SC2018-055007