Archaic in the Yugoslav Cinema of the 1960s
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- ISBN 9789048568895
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Pallas Publications
- Publication City/Country: NL
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Adrian Pelc is a postdoc assistant in the Department of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. His interests include Yugoslav cinema, cultural studies, and critical theory.
