Lo schermo cinematografico tra memoria e oblio. Meccanismi del ricordo collettivo e percorsi di rielaborazione del trauma bellico nel cinema dell'area ex-jugoslava.

This research deals with the relationship between cinema and memory in the particular historical context of the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Former-Yugoslav countries are the terrains on which to observe the politics of memory in the public, collective and cultural spaces, the forms of historical revisionism imposed by some political systems, the survival of a nostalgic feeling towards Tito's Yugoslavia, the active symptoms of traumas left by massacres that still remain without justice. This project analyses how the film production of local authors has tackled these aspects in the aftermath. Cinema, memory and wars in former-Yugoslavia are the three poles of this research, which determined the choice of the topics, the authors and the filmic texts analyzed. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first one is dedicated to studies on memory and trauma, while the second one deals with the case study of post-Yugoslav cinema. The categorisations and the theories described in the first part guide the reader in the analysis of the case study: the themes, the authors and the filmic texts were examined starting from the comparison between the studies on memory and trauma and the historical-social dynamics related to the Yugoslav wars. For the development of the second part, in addition to the bibliographic and filmic references mentioned, a useful source of information is the corpus of in-depth interviews with some prominent directors from Serbia and Bosnia, whose films are particularly significant in the film production of the Balkan area and in the analysis of the memory of the 1990s. This research rises the question whether, among the arts, cinema can be a tool for collective and individual re-elaboration of historical traumas, seeking an answer in the study of a specific and recent case in European history.