Localised dystopia in Croatian and Serbian cinema

Genre production is often easily localised in various cultures, but localisations of science fiction seem particularly interesting, due to the technological sources of the genre imagery and typical narrative structures. Localisation to a less technologically-oriented society, such as post-yugoslav...

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Main Author: Nikica Gilić
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Language:English
Published: Adam Mickiewicz University Press 2018-12-01
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Online Access:https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/17072
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description Genre production is often easily localised in various cultures, but localisations of science fiction seem particularly interesting, due to the technological sources of the genre imagery and typical narrative structures. Localisation to a less technologically-oriented society, such as post-yugoslav Croatia and Serbia, are a very good example, since in such films as The Show Must Go On (by Nevio Marasović) and Technotise – Edit & I (by Aleksa Gajić and Nebojša Andrić) allegorical science fiction deals directly with local problems and narrations, such as Croatia’s obsession with modernisation and Western-European identity (in Marasović’s film) and Serbia’s traumatic relation with Slobodan Milošević’s regime and national pride (in Gajić’s and Andrić’s animated feature film). The experimental concept of Unknown Energies, Unidentified Feelings (by Dalibor Barić and Tomislav Babić) provides another model of dealing with genre structures in a local context, since it directly develops the early-1970s model of connecting experimental cinema with the technological obsessions of the era (important for entire Yugoslavia through the GEFF festival) into a contemporary experimental animated dystopia.
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spelling doaj-art-a0ca4a8ac36940288bba55d8892da9792025-08-20T03:09:29ZengAdam Mickiewicz University PressImages1731-450X2720-040X2018-12-01233210.14746/i.2018.32.04Localised dystopia in Croatian and Serbian cinemaNikica Gilić0Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb Genre production is often easily localised in various cultures, but localisations of science fiction seem particularly interesting, due to the technological sources of the genre imagery and typical narrative structures. Localisation to a less technologically-oriented society, such as post-yugoslav Croatia and Serbia, are a very good example, since in such films as The Show Must Go On (by Nevio Marasović) and Technotise – Edit & I (by Aleksa Gajić and Nebojša Andrić) allegorical science fiction deals directly with local problems and narrations, such as Croatia’s obsession with modernisation and Western-European identity (in Marasović’s film) and Serbia’s traumatic relation with Slobodan Milošević’s regime and national pride (in Gajić’s and Andrić’s animated feature film). The experimental concept of Unknown Energies, Unidentified Feelings (by Dalibor Barić and Tomislav Babić) provides another model of dealing with genre structures in a local context, since it directly develops the early-1970s model of connecting experimental cinema with the technological obsessions of the era (important for entire Yugoslavia through the GEFF festival) into a contemporary experimental animated dystopia. https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/17072The Show Must Go OnTechnotise – Edit & IUnknown EnergiesUnidentified Feelingsdystopian cinemapost-yugoslav cinema
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Localised dystopia in Croatian and Serbian cinema
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The Show Must Go On
Technotise – Edit & I
Unknown Energies
Unidentified Feelings
dystopian cinema
post-yugoslav cinema
title Localised dystopia in Croatian and Serbian cinema
title_full Localised dystopia in Croatian and Serbian cinema
title_fullStr Localised dystopia in Croatian and Serbian cinema
title_full_unstemmed Localised dystopia in Croatian and Serbian cinema
title_short Localised dystopia in Croatian and Serbian cinema
title_sort localised dystopia in croatian and serbian cinema
topic The Show Must Go On
Technotise – Edit & I
Unknown Energies
Unidentified Feelings
dystopian cinema
post-yugoslav cinema
url https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/17072
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