Syllabus:
Introduction, course focus, organisation, requirements; About Yugoslavia and politics of identity
FILM: Bitka na Neretvi(V. Buljaić, 1969)
Socialist culture and Yugoslav cultural hybridity (literature, cinema and art).
FILM: Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja (K. Papić; 1973)
Yugoslavia as a consumer society: admiring the west, shopping and new tourism.
FILM: Ljubav i moda <span class="TextRun SCXW254878830"
Seminar focuses on various aspects of Cultural life in Yugoslavia mainly form perspective of Croatian authors and artists. By focusing on an overarching, supranational cinematigraphy frame, we will be presented shifting identities in specific cultural milieu. General aim is to present chronological summary of representation of Titos Yugoslavia based on analysis of selected visual poetics in cinematography, literary poetic dimension in novels and cultural politics in visual arts.
The course will also focus on some of concepts of Yugoslavia as an eastern socialist country with capitalist characteristics that draws on the western modernity as well as shifting relation of the Balkans and Europe.