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 Dušan Makavejev, Emir Kusturica, and Srdan Dragojevic; 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.
"Disintegration in Frames alerts readers to the vibrancy and genius of Yugoslav/post-Yugoslav cinema and will make them want to rush to the nearest video store."—CHOICE
"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 political innocence. 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 Zizek
"As Catherine Portugues put it in her evaluation of the book, Disintegration in Frames will find its audience among both academics and curious readers. On the other hand, Levi's volume could be used as a very informative handbook for various types of college courses. On the other hand, the book will allow those who simply enjoy watching the movies that Levi analyzes to begin to see them as a product of the times in which they were made." —Bojan Belic, University of Washington
Pavle Levi is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Stanford University.
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如果你期待的是一个有明确目标和终点的旅程,那么你来错地方了。这本书更像是一次对边缘状态的沉浸式体验。作者似乎对“停滞”和“循环”有着特殊的偏爱,故事中的人物似乎总是在重复着某些动作或思考着某些无解的悖论。但请注意,这种重复并非单调,而是像音乐中的变奏,每一次重复都带着细微的差别,暗示着环境或心境的微妙变化。我个人对其中关于记忆的论述特别有感触,它不把记忆看作是过去事件的准确记录,而是一种持续的、有目的性的“重塑”。文字的密度非常高,用词精准,几乎没有浪费的词语。它要求读者对语言保持高度的敏感性,因为每一个动词的选择都像是经过了无数次推敲的砝码。这使得阅读过程充满了一种审美的愉悦,仿佛在鉴赏一件极其复杂的工艺品,你赞叹的不仅是成品,更是制造它时所倾注的心血和技艺。
评分说实话,第一次接触这种叙事结构,差点就想放弃了。它完全不遵循传统的起承转合,情节的推进更像是量子力学中的不确定性原理,你观察得越仔细,它的真实位置就越模糊。但一旦你适应了这种节奏,接受了它碎片化的美学,你会发现其中隐藏的巨大张力。作者似乎对“缺失”这一主题有着近乎病态的迷恋,他不是在讲述一个完整的故事,而是在展示一个被时间腐蚀、被记忆磨损的残骸。最令人印象深刻的是他对色彩和质感的运用,比如某段关于老旧家具表面油漆剥落的描写,细腻得仿佛能触摸到那种粗糙的触感,那种触感本身就承载了比任何对白都更厚重的历史重量。这种将物质细节提升到哲学高度的手法,非常高明。它迫使读者从被动的接受者转变为主动的重建者,我们必须自己去填补那些被刻意留下的裂缝,才能勉强拼凑出一个属于自己的理解版本。这是一种挑战,但也是一种极大的满足感,因为最终得出的结论,融入了你自己的思考和感受。
评分我必须承认,这本书需要读者拥有一定的“接受模糊性”的能力。它拒绝提供简单的答案或情感上的宣泄口。作者构建了一个充满象征意义的场域,其中的物体和场景——比如一个空旷的房间、一扇半掩的门、墙上褪色的照片——都像是某种未解之谜的索引。这种象征的密集性,使得阅读过程充满了“解谜”的乐趣,但这个谜题的答案可能永远不会被揭示。它探讨的疏离感,不仅仅是人与人之间,更是人与自己过去、与自身处境之间的疏离。叙事节奏的跳跃性非常强,上一秒还在对一个微小的物件进行详尽的剖析,下一秒就可能跳跃到几年前的模糊场景。这种节奏的错位感,成功地模仿了意识流动的非线性本质。总而言之,这是一部对智识和感知力要求较高的作品,它不讨好读者,但回报给愿意投入的读者的是一种深层次的、关于存在本质的冷峻洞察。
评分这部作品,初读时那种扑面而来的疏离感和某种难以言喻的破碎感,让人立刻意识到这绝非寻常的叙事。它像是一组精心打磨的、来自不同时间切面的照片集,每一张都清晰得令人心悸,但它们之间缺失了明确的因果链条,留下大片的留白供人臆想。作者的笔触极其克制,却又在最不经意间抛出一个足以颠覆之前所有理解的细节。我特别欣赏他对环境氛围的营造,那种略带潮湿、光线昏暗的室内场景,仿佛能透过文字的缝隙渗出来,带着一股陈旧的气息。人物的对话更是精彩,他们似乎都在小心翼翼地绕开真正的核心问题,用一种近乎仪式化的语言进行着无效的交流,这种“言不由衷”的状态,精准地捕捉了现代人际关系的某种核心困境。阅读过程中,我忍不住会停下来,反复咀嚼某一个形容词或一个短句,试图从中榨取出更多的意义。这需要耐心,需要沉浸,它不是一本用来快速消化的读物,更像是一场需要全神贯注的智力与情感的探索之旅。每次合上书页,那种未被完全解答的悬念和隐约的不安感,会久久地停留在心头,让人回味无穷。
评分这是一本非常“安静”的书,但其内在的噪音却大得惊人。它探讨的主题非常宏大——关于身份的建构、时间对自我的消磨——但处理起来却极其内敛和个人化。你不会在其中找到激烈的冲突或戏剧性的高潮,所有的爆发都发生在人物的内心深处,以一种几乎难以察觉的颤动形式表现出来。我尤其关注作者是如何处理视角转换的,他似乎在不同的章节之间,不动声色地切换着不同的观察者,每一个观察者都带着自己固有的偏见和局限性,这使得“真相”本身成了一个不断变动的、流动的概念。这种多重视角的并置,成功地营造了一种结构性的不稳定感,读者永远无法完全信任任何一个叙述者,而这种不信任感,恰恰是作品想要传达的核心情绪。读完之后,我感觉自己像刚从一场漫长而复杂的梦中醒来,虽然细节模糊,但那种情绪的底色——一种清醒的、带着悲悯的疏离——却清晰可见。
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