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	HU OSA 350-1-1
Fonds 350:	Records of the International Monitor Institute (IMI)
Subfonds 1:	Europe
Series 1:	'Balkan Archive'

Date(s) 1990-2001

Extent and medium

12 Archival boxes, 2 linear meters
998 Beta SP, 30 linear meters
316 VHS, 8 linear meters

Scope and content

The video collection of the Balkan Archive is unique in the sense that it combines a wide variety of materials relating to the war in former Yugoslavia. It covers the period from 1990 (and, in some cases, earlier footage) to the end of that decade. Balkan Archive include television recordings and documentaries from most of the republics (and subsequent warring sides) of the former Federation, presenting extremely divergent views and versions of the conflict; television coverage of the events by the Western media (mostly American, British, and German), and journalistic and amateur footage that has captured the etnic cleansing, mass murdering, genocide in all its immediacy. It also contains several narrative films that shed light on the conflict, its origins and its aftermath, including Theo Angelopoulous' Award-winning film "Ulysses' Gaze." The Balkan Archive is of great interest to researchers of natioanlism studies and history of the Balkans. Trial proceedings of ICTY, chronicling the proceedings of the International War Crime Tribunal in Hague, may be of value to students of international law, while the television treatment of the same events, from the Croatian and then Bosnian war in 1991-95 to the NATO bombings in 1999, can serve as a source to those working in media studies and analyzing such subjects as propaganda and agenda setting. The collection, in its entirety, will be extremely useful to specialists in political science and modern history.

Accruals Not expected

Conditions governing access Open to the public.

Finding aids

• 1326 containers

Note

Keywords: See: fonds level description.
One factor that may complicate the work of future researchers is that detailed description of the contents is not always available, and in these cases has not been included in the electronic catalogue. Needless to say, the knowledge of Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian and other relevant language is a prerequisite, since most of the locally produced television programs does not have voiceover or subtitles.

Archivist's Note

Video cassettes of the Balkan Archives -- 350-1-1: from 1327 to1531 (250 Beta Sp video cassettes) with Croatian evening news programs are unprocessed. They're temporarily moved to fonds 902. After electronic catalogue (database) is done, this part of the Balkan Archives is to be merged with those 1326 itmes in 350-1-1. Zsuzsanna Zadori

Date(s) of descriptions

Online version updated 17 November 2009