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

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
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
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? 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.
  • Partisans in Yugoslavia : literature, film and visual culture. Edited by Miranda Jakiša - Nikica Gilić. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015, 382 stran. ISBN 9783837625226. info
  • RADOSAVLJEVIĆ, Veljko: Sjaj crnog: Prilog za bolje razumevanje jednog razdoblja srpske kinematografije, Beograd: Filmski centar Srbije 2019.
  • TIRNANIĆ, Bogdan: Crni talas. Beograd 2008.
  • 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
  • Shadow citizens - Želimir Žilnik. Edited by Želimir Žilnik - Ivet Ćurlin - Ana Dević - Nataša Ilić - Sabina. Oldenburg: Sternberg Press, 2019, 152, 168. ISBN 9783956795206. info
  • GILIĆ, Nikica. Uvod u povijest hrvatskog igranog filma. 2., izmijenjeno izd. Zagreb: Leykam international, 2011, 210 s. ISBN 9789537534493. URL info
  • 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 9989-643-06-7. 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
  • Five filmmakers : Tarkovsky, Forman, Polanski, Szabó, Makavejev. Edited by Daniel J. Goulding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994, xi, 289. ISBN 0253208254. info
  • JORDANOVA, Dina. Cinema of flames : Balkan film, culture and the media. 1st publ. London: BFI, 2001, 322 s. ISBN 9780851708478. 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
  • PAVIČIĆ, Jurica. Postjugoslavenski film : stil i ideologija. Zagreb: Hrvatski filmski savez, 2011, 295 s. ISBN 9789537033347. info
  • CRNKOVIĆ, Gordana P. Post-Yugoslav literature and film : fires, foundations, flourishes. First published. New York: Bloomsbury, 2012, 301 stran. ISBN 9781441171771. info
  • MURTIC, Dino. Post-Yugoslav cinema : towards a cosmopolitan imagining. First published. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, ix, 207. ISBN 9781349581474. info
  • JELAČA, Dijana. Dislocated screen memory : narrating trauma in Post-Yugoslav cinema. First published. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, xii, 275. ISBN 9781137515773. info
  • SAMARDZIJA, Zoran. Post-communist Malaise : cinematic responses to European integration. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020, vii, 207. ISBN 9780813587158. info
  • Contemporary Balkan cinema : transnational exchanges and global circuits. Edited by Lydia Papadimitriou - Ana Grgić. Edingburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, xxviii, 30. ISBN 9781474458436. 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 2024.
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