Author Dijana Jelača

Dijana Jelača

Dijana Jelača is a Lecturer in the Film Department at Brooklyn College. She is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema (Palgrave, 2016) and co-author of Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction (Routledge, 2019, with Kristin Lené Hole). Jelača’s research interests include South Slavic film cultures, post-conflict cinema and trauma, feminist film studies, and socialist women’s cinema.

The Land Keeps the Score: Grounding Remembrance in Disturbed Earth

Dijana Jelača

October 2022

After Yugoslavia

In 21st century frames of war, where warfare is often waged remotely – via screens that guide unmanned missiles – there is a notable tendency for the perception of such wars to anthropomorphise the landscape it...