(Post)Yugoslav Cinema: “Prague School” and Its Legacy

Session Submission Type: Panel

Affiliate Organization: North American Society for Serbian Studies

Brief Description

The panel (Post)Yugoslav Cinema: “Prague School” and Its Legacy explores the poetics of so-called Prague School (most prolific during the 1970s and 1980s) and its resonance in the former Yugoslavia cinematic production. The panel opens with a paper that broadly introduces subversive elements of the Prague School films, thus outlining the dominant characteristics of the most prominent Yugoslav filmmakers. It is followed by a paper on a recent documentary made by Tanja Brzaković, a student of the Prague School representatives who explores new social realities of globally hybridized identities that fall through the cracks of Serbian daily politics. The panel closes with the current work of one of the most relevant Prague School authors, Goran Marković, exploring the poetics of his screenplays, which have not been produced to date because of their subversivness.

Sub Unit

• Cinema, Television, Electronic Media

Chair

• Zuko Garagić

Papers

• Representations of Social Resistance by the 'Prague School' Authors in (Post)Yugoslav Cinema - Marija Grujic, Inst for Literature and Art (Serbia)

• Documenting 'The Chinese Century' through 'The Chinese Will Come' (Brzaković, 2018) - Sunnie Trine'e Rucker-Chang, Ohio State U

• Goran Marković: Three 'Unfilmable Scenarios' - Nevena Dakovic, U of Belgrade (Serbia)

Discussant

• Dijana Mitrovic, North American Society for Serbian Studies