The Archaic in the Yugoslav Cinema of the 1960s

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 boo...

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Main Author: Pelc, Adrian
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description 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1770172026-06-04T05:48:40Z The Archaic in the Yugoslav Cinema of the 1960s Pelc, Adrian Balkan studies Balkan cultural studies Modernism Socialist aesthetics Slavic Studies Film historiography Yugoslav Cinema Postcolonial theory Eastern Europe Marxist cultural analysis Cinematic modernism Balkans Representation politics in Yugoslav film thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFC Far-left political ideologies and movements 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. 2026-05-30T05:09:24Z 2026-05-30T05:09:24Z 2026-05-29T11:30:41Z 2026 book ONIX_20260529T115621_9781040840498_8 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/113836 9781040840498 9781003705208 9781040843093 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177017 eng Eastern European Screen Cultures open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113836/1/9781040840498.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113836/1/9781040840498.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003705208 10.4324/9781003705208 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 0bdd30b8-28cc-4e2d-bd69-6cabb77b36d4 9781040840498 9781003705208 9781040843093 Routledge 202 Oxford [...] open access
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Balkan cultural studies
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Socialist aesthetics
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Film historiography
Yugoslav Cinema
Postcolonial theory
Eastern Europe
Marxist cultural analysis
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Representation politics in Yugoslav film
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Balkan cultural studies
Modernism
Socialist aesthetics
Slavic Studies
Film historiography
Yugoslav Cinema
Postcolonial theory
Eastern Europe
Marxist cultural analysis
Cinematic modernism Balkans
Representation politics in Yugoslav film
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Socialist aesthetics
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Film historiography
Yugoslav Cinema
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Representation politics in Yugoslav film
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