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480086 KO Colloquium on Literature (2021S)

The Yugoslav Auteur Cinema of the 1960es

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 48 - Slawistik
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Im Sommersemester 2021 findet der Unterricht zunächst ausschließlich digital statt. Sollte im Laufe des Semesters hybride Lehre in den Seminarräumen möglich werden, erfolgt eine gesonderte Information der Studierenden.

  • Monday 01.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
  • Monday 08.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
  • Monday 15.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
  • Monday 22.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
  • Monday 12.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum 5 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-O1-25
  • Monday 19.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum 5 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-O1-25
  • Monday 26.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum 5 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-O1-25
  • Monday 03.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum 5 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-O1-25
  • Monday 10.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum 5 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-O1-25
  • Monday 17.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum 5 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-O1-25
  • Monday 31.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum 5 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-O1-25
  • Monday 07.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum 5 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-O1-25
  • Monday 14.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum 5 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-O1-25
  • Monday 21.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum 5 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-O1-25
  • Monday 28.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum 5 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-O1-25

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The 1960es are the decade when modernist, auteur poetics were strongly developing in Yugoslav cinema. Directors such as Dušan Makavejev, Živojin Pavlović, Aleksandar Petrović, Želimir Žilnik and others were at this period elaborating their individual cinematic stiles which were to be brought under the common denominator “the black wave” in 1969. Notwithstanding major differences in the work of the directors subsumed under the label “black wave”, they have one common trait: their films tend to radically question not only the cinematic, but also the social context within which they appear. The course will therefore revolve around the analysis of particular films from the period, while showing how they enter into an ambivalent relation with Yugoslav Marxist ideological tropes. It will be shown how the auteur cinema of the 1960es offered a new representation of World War II and the Partisan struggle in Yugoslavia, how it questioned the success and the radicality of the socialist revolution, how it gave center-stage to characters appertaining to the Lumpenproletariat, who cannot be integrated into a socialist society, how it boarded the taboo topic of political purges after Yugoslavia’s split with Stalin, how it tried to introduce a sexual revolution in Yugoslavia through film. Starting from two key concepts in Yugoslav film history – what was cinematic modernism and the auteur film – the course will depict how the “black” cinema probed into neuralgic points of the “red” Yugoslav ideology while depicting a complex cultural panorama.

The course will be held in Croatian and English/German. Primary film materials will be provided with English subtitles.

Assessment and permitted materials

- short oral presentation
- active participation in discussions
- final essay (1600-2000 words)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

- regular, active attendance (75% of all course units)

Examination topics

- topics boarded at the course

Reading list


Association in the course directory

B-42-K

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