{"product_id":"past-zelimir-zilnik-9798869190710","title":"Past: An Introduction to the Problem","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho can know what is in the past? Is it what historians can tell us? Should we also trust what we can remember? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePast: An Introduction to the Problem\u003c\/em\u003e proposes that the problem of the past now concerns everyone. Visions of a different, brighter future defeated in the Cold War and its heated afterlives, we are being offered the past as the only horizon of possibility. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd what are we supposed to find in that past? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilosopher Boris Buden considers these questions in a series of essays and conversations with filmmaker Zelimir Zilnik, one of the most prominent filmmakers of the \"Black Wave\" of 1960s socialist Yugoslavia - a child of communists and an internationally successful artist using resources available to all in the socialist state, Zilnik remains a constant critic of political systems that seek to curb artists' reflections on the world being built. Treating Zilnik as a rare witness of a past for which his work is uncommon documentation, \u003cem\u003ePast: An Introduction to the Problem\u003c\/em\u003e asks crucial questions about ways we can know the past, how the past informs our experience, and how it defines our sense of possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zelimir Zilnik, Boris Buden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798869190710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Iskra Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d","brand":"Zelimir Zilnik","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45898751475967,"sku":"9798869190710","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f091c6ef-31c1-4825-84fc-0e2a3e238a0c.jpg?v=1721377016","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/past-zelimir-zilnik-9798869190710","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}