JSB_SLAV60 Between Ideology and Subversion: Yugoslav Cinema of the 1960s

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Stehlík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Stehlík, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petr Stehlík, Ph.D.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Pavel Pilch, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 12:00–13:40 B2.34, except Mon 8. 4., except Mon 15. 4.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of English language (movies with English subtitles will be screened).
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of this course is to introduce dominant tendencies, authors and representative movies of Yugoslav filmography of the 60´s. Focus will be given on study of subversive potential of those movies in relation to official ideology and interpretation of constitutive myths in the back then reality of Tito´s Yugoslavia. What message was sent to the audience by the movies of Veljko Bulajić, Puriša Đorđević, Bata Čengić or Antun Vrdoljak? How did the picture of the Second World War change in Yugoslavia? What did irritate the regime critics about the movies of Živojin Pavlović, Dušan Makavejev, Aleksandar Petrović or Želimir Žilnik, that promoted Yugoslav filmography behind the borders? How did their creators respond to the political upheaval and crisis of the communist utopia that Yugoslavia and the world were going through at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s? These are some of the key questions that this course will seek answers to.
Learning outcomes
Absolvent will be introduced to different poetics of Yugoslav 60´s movies and will be able to say how the ideology of Yugoslav communism and political and social changes of 60´s were influencing them.
Syllabus
  • 1) What was Yugoslav filmography?
  • 2) In between spectaculars and intimate drama: Partisan movie like a specific genre of Yugoslav filmography
  • 3) Movies serving the ideology: Constitutional myths of Tito´s Yugoslavia and their presentation
  • 4) We killed too: Changes in presentation of The Second World War in Yugoslav movie
  • 5) In the name of social involvement and experiment: modernistic tendencies in Yugoslav filmography of 60´s
  • 6) In between the glory and damnation: "black wave" in Yugoslav movie
  • 7) From the myth to doubts: How did the Yugoslav film-makers of 60´s contribute to the world filmography?
Literature
  • GOULDING, Daniel J. Liberated cinema : the Yugoslav experience, 1945-2001. 2nd, rev. and expanded ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002, xiv, 285. ISBN 025321582X. info
  • DeCUIR, Greg, Jr.: Yugoslav Black Wave: Polemical Cinema in Socialist Yugoslavia (1963-1972), Amsterdan City Press 2019.
  • RADOSAVLJEVIĆ, Veljko: Sjaj crnog: Prilog za bolje razumevanje jednog razdoblja srpske kinematografije, Beograd: Filmski centar Srbije 2019.
  • BLAŽEJOVSKÝ, Jaromír. Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu! (Death to Fascism, Freedom to the People!). Cinepur. Praha: FAMU a Sdružení přátel Cinepuru, 2006, vol. 14, No 48, p. 18-21. ISSN 1213-516X. info
  • Partisans in Yugoslavia : literature, film and visual culture. Edited by Miranda Jakiša - Nikica Gilić. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015, 382 stran. ISBN 9783837625226. info
  • Gal Kirn - Dubravka Sekulić - Žiga Testen (eds.): Surfing the Black - Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema and Its Transgressive Moments, Jan van Eyck 2012.
  • TIRNANIĆ, Bogdan: Crni talas. Beograd 2008.
  • Shadow citizens - Želimir Žilnik. Edited by Želimir Žilnik - Ivet Ćurlin - Ana Dević - Nataša Ilić - Sabina. Oldenburg: Sternberg Press, 2019, 152, 168. ISBN 9783956795206. info
  • MORTIMER, Lorraine. Terror and joy : the films of Dušan Makavejev. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009, xiii, 337. ISBN 9780816648863. info
  • RHOADS, Bonita and Vadim ERENT. Mysteries of Makavejev: Eros, Ideology, Montage. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2015, 300 pp. ISBN 978-80-7308-564-3. info
  • DURGNAT, Raymond: WR - Mysteries of the Organism, London: British Film Institute 1999.
  • MAKAVEJEV, Dušan. WR: Mysteries of the organism : a cinematic testament to the life and teachings of Wilhelm Reich. New York: Avon, 1972, 144 stran. info
  • GILIĆ, Nikica. Uvod u povijest hrvatskog igranog filma. 2., izmijenjeno izd. Zagreb: Leykam international, 2011, 210 s. ISBN 9789537534493. URL info
  • PAVIČIĆ, Jurica: Klasici hrvatskog filma jugoslavenskog razdoblja, Zagreb: Hrvatski filmski savez 2017.
  • ŠKRABALO, Ivo. Hrvatska filmska povijest : ukratko (1896-2006). Zagreb: V.B.Z., 2008, 304 s. ISBN 9789532018172. info
  • ŠAKIĆ, Tomislav. Modernizam u hrvatskom igranom filmu : nacrt tipologije. Zagreb: Disput, 2016, 323 stran. ISBN 9789532602494. info
  • The cinema of the Balkans. Edited by Dina Jordanova. 1st pub. London: Wallflower, 2006, xvi, 291. ISBN 1904764819. info
  • ČERNENKO, Miron Markovič. Macedonian film. Skopje: Kinoteka na Makedonija, 1997, 234 s. ISBN 9989643067. info
  • Five filmmakers : Tarkovsky, Forman, Polanski, Szabó, Makavejev. Edited by Daniel J. Goulding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994, xi, 289. ISBN 0253208254. info
  • LEVI, Pavle. Disintegration in frames : aesthetics and ideology in the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cinema. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007, 203 s. ISBN 9780804753685. info
  • ŠESTÁK, Miroslav. Dějiny jihoslovanských zemí. 2. vyd. Praha: NLN Nakladatelství lidové noviny, 2009, 758 s. ISBN 9788071063759. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, screening of films, class discussion.
Assessment methods
Prerequisites for granting the credit: regular attendance, active participation in class discussion.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023, Spring 2025.
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