PUBLIC TELEVISION AND THE RETURN TO SOCIALIST YUGOSLAVIA: MEDIATIZED CULTURAL MEMORY AMONG POST-SOCIALIST GENERATIONS
PUBLIC TELEVISION AND THE RETURN TO SOCIALIST YUGOSLAVIA: MEDIATIZED CULTURAL MEMORY AMONG POST-SOCIALIST GENERATIONS
Author(s): Nataša Simenunović-Bajić, Marija Z. VujovićSubject(s): Social Sciences, History and theory of sociology, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Универзитет у Нишу
Keywords: Yugoslavia; cultural memory; mediatization; TV reruns; sacred space
Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with four significant concepts and discourses in contemporary Serbian post-socialist culture: sacred space, cultural memory, mediatization and Yugoslavia. A cursory look at the contradictions of Yugoslav history and politics implies a broadening of the research perspectives and themes. Unfinished debates about positive and negative aspects of socialist Yugoslavia provide an opportunity to rethink television heritage and cultural memory from a temporal distance. Here, we will discuss one dimension of memorized sacred space: TV reruns on public television in Serbia. Particularly, the research focus is on TV series as authentic TV genre and cult television. The paper shows that a large number of reruns of Yugoslav TV series on public television contributes to the maintaining of cultural memory among post-socialist generations and construction of the distinctiveness of the local cultural identity.
Journal: FACTA UNIVERSITATIS - Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History
- Issue Year: 19/2020
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 109-124
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English