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? 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?
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.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/spring2025/JSB_SLAV60