Archive for Ivo Andrić

Kusturica’s Nationalist Disneyland

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on 23 August 2012 by delclem


 

“On 28 June, which is the anniversary of the battle of Kosovo, the Bosnian Serb film maker was going to inaugurate Andrićgrad: a town (theme park?) built to celebrate the work of writer Ivo Andrić. Belgrade journalist Boško Jakšić dénonces a project, which he claims is intent on instrumentalising history and memory for nationalist ends.” Full text (c) presseurop.eu 2012

Another text (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012