Feminist takes : Early works by Želimir Žilnik / edited by Antonia Majaca with Jelena Vesić and Rachel O'Reilly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vesić, Jelena, 1974- editor.

O'Reilly, Rachel, editor.

Majača, Antonia, editor.

London Hilfers Family Endowment for the Study of Women in Cinema and Media Arts.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Žilnik, Želimir, 1942-.

Motion picture producers and directors--Yugoslavia.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Motion pictures--Europe, Eastern.

Motion pictures.

Feminism and motion pictures.

Žilnik, Želimir, 1942---Criticism and interpretation.

Žilnik, Želimir.

Criticism and interpretation.

Yugoslavia.

Eastern Europe.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

328 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Other Title:

Early works by Želimir Žilnik

Place of Publication:

London, England: Sternberg Press, [2021]

Summary:

Issued in conjunction with the research project, "Feminist takes", a series of conferences and exhibitions that has lasted from 2015 to 2021 (at least) in Germany, the Czech Republic, and other locations under the guidance of Antonia Majaca.

"Canonical within the Yugoslav New Film of the late 1960s and the 1970s, Želimir Žilnik's Early Works (1968) follows the female revolutionary Jugoslava as she leaves her lumpenproletariat family to spread the teachings of young Marx and Engels among the peasants and factory workers. The violent responses to this proselytizing mission, which include the rape of Jugoslava and the beating of her three male comrades, invoke the repression of the 1968 student movement in socialist Yugoslavia. The film's allegorical examination of the contradictions of Yugoslav state socialism culminates when Jugoslava becomes the object of her comrades' violence, who shoot her and set her body on fire. This edited volume, a part of Antonia Majaca's ongoing collaborative investigation Feminist Takes, initiates a discussion of the filmic--and historical--fate of Jugoslava and the prospects of revolutionary feminism."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Returns of and to Early Works / Antonia Majaca

Comradess Fatale, a Trauerspiel / Bojana Pejic

Nomen Est Omen: A Brief Review of the Death of the Female Character in One of the Emblematic Films of the Yugoslav Black Wave / Vesna Kesic

The Revolution Has Burned, Long Live Art / Ivana Bago

Jugoslava and the Revolutionary Refutation of the Revolution / Branislav Dimitrijevic

Early Works as the Social Reproduction of the Revolution's Failure / Angela Dimitrakaki

My Jugoslavas in Beirut / Rasha Salti

Automatons of the Revolution / Giovanna Zapperi

Early Works: Lessons on Militant Feminism in State Socialism / Irmgard Emmelhainz

A Media History of Misogyny / Ana Teixeira Pinto

Countering the Voyeuristic Gaze: Jugoslava, Homos, Fools, and Horses / Vedrana Madzar

Second Shots

or: Shooting a Woman / Shooting Women / Ruth Noack

Early Works and the Problem of Mimetic Exacerbation of Gender Violence in Young CommunoFeminism / Jaleh Mansoor

The Vanishing of the Family in Plumes of Smoke / Rose-Anne Gush

Revolution, Playing Itself: A Mannerism / Kerstin Stakemeier

Burn Baby Burn: The Problems of Allegory as Artistic Strategy / Jelena Vesic.

Notes:

With texts by Ivana Bago, Angela Dimitrakaki, Branislav Dimitrijević, Irmgard Emmelhainz, Rose-Anne Gush, Vesna Kesić, Vedrana Madžar, Antonia Majaca, Jaleh Mansoor, Rruth Noack, Bojana Pejić, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Rasha Salti, Kerstin Stakemeier, Jelena Vesič, Giovanna Zapperi.

Contains bibliographic references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the London Hilfers Family Endowment for the Study of Women in Cinema and Media Arts.

Contains:

Žilnik, Želimir, 1942- Rani radovi. English.

ISBN:

395679320X

9783956793202

OCLC:

1157996503

Publisher Number:

99990132204