Screening Bosnia Geopolitics, Gender and Nationalism in Cinematic Images of the 1992-1995 War

by Harper, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781623564971
• ISBN10: 1623564972
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-03-09
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The Bosnian war of 1992-1995 was one of the most brutal conflicts to have erupted since the Second World War. But although the war occurred in what many have called 'Europe's backyard' and received significant media coverage in the West, relatively little scholarly attention has been devoted to media representations of the conflict. Stephen Harper analyses how the political contexts and historical events of the war have been represented, arguing that the Western media have--both during the war and afterwards--tended to present a one-sided, pro-Western view of the conflict.

Examining images of the war across a variety of media forms such as films, television documentaries and news media, Harper focuses on the representation of some of the war's major themes--including humanitarian intervention, the roles of NATO and the UN, genocide, rape and ethnic cleansing--and considers the role of popular media texts in reflecting and reinforcing Western geopolitical hegemony.

Author Biography

Stephen Harper is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His previous books include Madness, Power and the Media (2009) and Beyond the Left: The Communist Critique of the Media (2012).

Table of Contents

Introduction - Bosnia: The 'Last Good War'?
Chapter 1 - The Bosnian War: Histories and Counter-Histories
Chapter 2 - Norman Percy's The Death of Yugoslavia and The Fall of Milosevic
Chapter 3 - From Page to Screen: Intermediality and Propaganda in Welcome to Sarajevo, Behind Enemy Lines, and The Hunting Party
Chapter 4 - The 'Progressive' Frame: Realism and Humanitarianism in Warriors, No Man's Land, and Safe Area Gorazde
Chapter 5 - Alternate Views: Serbian Films about the Bosnian War
Conclusion - Beyond Bosnia