Comics in Socialism: Capitalistic Pulp or Educational Literature? Cover Image

Strip u socijalizmu: Kapitalistički šund ili edukativno štivo?
Comics in Socialism: Capitalistic Pulp or Educational Literature?

Author(s): Haris Cerić
Subject(s): Cultural history, Visual Arts, History of ideas, History of Education, Social development, Social differentiation, Sociology of Culture, History of Communism, Sociology of Politics, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Education
Published by: Filozofsko društvo THEORIA
Keywords: Comics; socialism; Yugoslavia; education; propaganda; mass culture; ideology;

Summary/Abstract: Considering that making a comprehensive overview of the role of comics in all former socialist regimes would imply a research adventure per se, i.e. an adventure that largely goes beyond what was written in this text, this piece of work will try in a lapidary fashion to present relationship between the socialist establishment and comics in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia throughout different periods of its existence. In the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the comics threaded its way through being characterized as disputed mass culture capitalistic media, over to proselyte educational literature, and finally to the media that completely legitimately, in creative and emphatic way, stands shoulder to shoulder with the greatest cultural achievements.

  • Issue Year: II/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 31-45
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bosnian