The Archaic in the Yugoslav Cinema of the 1960s : Modernity's Discontents in a Post-Revolutionary Film Industry / Adrian Pelc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pelc, Adrian, author.

Series:

Eastern European screen cultures.

Eastern European Screen Cultures

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Routledge.

Summary:

This book investigates the "Golden Age" of Yugoslav cinema and sheds light on it from a fresh perspective. By examining various tropes and discourses of the "archaic" that shaped not only the flourishing Yugoslav cinematic modernism of the 1960s but also a broader Yugoslav cultural politics, the book reveals a nuanced panorama of cultural negotiations.The "archaic" - that which is at odds with modernity - is a peculiar crossroads where Marxism intersects with Balkanism, while both are circumscribed by a general distrust towards representation. The analysis thus opens new perspectives on a politics of aesthetics that shaped some of the most successful Yugoslav films of all time. Furthermore, its findings will be relevant to any context in which a political as well as artistic movement seeks to present itself as avant-garde but is confronted with a discourse assigning it time-lag.Addressing an academic audience of scholars and postgraduate students interested in Balkan and East European area studies, Slavic studies, cultural studies, film, and postcolonial studies, this book is also of interest to those researching the intersections of time, aesthetics, and politics.

Contents:

Introduction: Entering the Golden Age1. Coming to Terms: The Archaic2. The Yugoslav Celluloid Archaic: A PanoramaII. Setting the Figures in Motion: The Game of the Archaic on the Yugoslav 1960s Screen3. Balkanism: The Time-Lag of Realia4. In the Future, in the Past, Under the False Appearance of a Present: Miroslav Krle?a's Timings of Yugoslav Culture5. Bloody Weddings and Funeral Bells: Representations of History in Traj?e Popov's Macedonian Bloody Wedding and Antun Vrdoljak's When You Hear the Bells6. Parody and Naiveté: Ante Babaja's The Birch Tree and Dragoslav Lazi?'s Poor Mary7. Two or Three Things I Know About Burdu?: Mi?a Popovi?'s Burdu? and Aleksandar Petrovi?'s It Rains in My VillageClosing Remarks on Backwardness and VitalityIII. Revenge on Representation: The "Move 3" in the Game of the Archaic on the Yugoslav 1960s Screen8. Images, Revolutions (and Their Crusts)9. Beauty and the Well: Du?an Makavejev's Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator10. Yet Another Effort Yugoslavs, If You Would Become Communists: ?elimir ?ilnik's Early WorksConcluding Remarks on the Game of the ArchaicBibliography.

Notes:

"Taylor & Francis".

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ISBN:

9781003705208

OCLC:

1592929605