Class and Gender Patterns in Yugoslav War Epics Cover Image

Класни и родни обрасци у југословенским ратним спектаклима
Class and Gender Patterns in Yugoslav War Epics

Author(s): Nemanja Zvijer
Subject(s): History
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: Class and gender patterns; "the filmic offensives"; socialist Yugoslavia; ideology; politics

Summary/Abstract: The paper work is dealing with the ways of film's construction class and gender patterns in war epics of socialistic Yugoslavia. The exact subjects of analysis are only those films which were showing ,,the enemy offensives" (the seven military operations of German army (Wehrmacht) and its allies against Yugoslav partisans during the World War Two). Those offensives were very significant (in real and symbolic sense) for ideological discourse of Yugoslav communists. On the other hand, films which were depicting those offensives were important (but often underestimated) segment of ex-Yugoslav cinematography. At the end, the film construction of those patterns (class and gender) will be compared with the official ideology, as well as with the social context in that are analyzed films were made, and with historical facts to which were those films referring.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 96-111
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian