The Life and Death of a Porno Gang and A Serbian Film: Metaphorical Dimensions

The article examines the socio-critical potential of two Serbian horror films, Mladen Đorđević’s The Life and Death of a Porno Gang (2009) and Srđan Spasojević’s A Serbian Film (2010), discussing both the adequacy of treating a particular film as a social metaphor and the implications this might have for the analyst and the object of analysis. To this end, the text scrutinizes some of the films’ key themes within a wider socio-political context before returning to its premise: the problem of emphasizing metaphorical dimensions of any horror film.

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