Partisans in Yugoslavia: Literature, Film, and Visual Culture

Cover Partisans in Yugoslavia......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
On Partisans and Partisanship in Yugoslavia’s Arts......Page 10
Partisan Narratives, Stagings and Transformations......Page 30
 Contemporary Art. A Meeting of the Current and the Cosmic!......Page 32
 Yugoslav Partisan Poetry. Songs for the Leader......Page 50
 From Memoir to Fiction. Early Yugoslav Partisan Narratives Revisited......Page 72
 Partisan Star Wars. Aesthetics of Ideology, Ideology of Aesthetics in Croatian Partisan Novels......Page 92
 With or Without Gun. Staging Female Partisans in Socialist Yugoslavia......Page 118
 Portraits of Yugoslav Army Soldiers. Between Partisan and Pop-Culture Imagery......Page 138
Partisan (Feature) Film in Yugoslavia: A ‘House’-Genre With an Afterlife......Page 158
 From Slavko to Slavica. (Soviet) Origins of (Yugoslav) Partisan Film......Page 160
 On the Specific (In)existence of the Partisan Film in Yugoslavia's People’s Liberation Struggle......Page 198
 Narrative and Genre Influences of the International Classical Cinema in the Partisan Films of Živorad-Žika Mitrovic......Page 228
 1970s Partisan Epics as Western Films. The Question of Genre and Myth in Yugoslav Partisan Film......Page 246
 Bodies That Shudder. Disability and Typhus Sufferers in Partisan Films......Page 266
 We Need to Talk About Valter. Partisan Film and the Anti-Leftist Odium......Page 284
 Trenutki Odlocitve. A Slovene Partisan Story from the 50s and 80s......Page 316
 Trst Je Naš! Post-Socialist Slovenian Partisan Cinema......Page 348
 The Partisan as an Artist, the Artist as a Partisan? On the Relationship between Artistic Autonomy and Workers’ Self Management......Page 364
Bibliography......Page 378
Authors......Page 380