Idylls of socialism: The Sarajevo Documentary School and the problem of the Bosnian sub-proletariat

This historical overview of the Sarajevo Documentary School considers the films, in the light of their recent re-emergence, as indicative of both the legacy of socialist realism (even in the context of Yugoslav media) and attempted social engineering in the Bosnia of the 1960s and 1970s. The argumen...

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Published inStudies in Eastern European cinema Vol. 1; no. 2; pp. 197 - 216
Main Author Halligan, Benjamin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 2010
Intellect
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Bosnian media
Bosnian sub-proletariat
ethnography
post-socialism
socialist realism
Yugo-nostalgia
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Summary:This historical overview of the Sarajevo Documentary School considers the films, in the light of their recent re-emergence, as indicative of both the legacy of socialist realism (even in the context of Yugoslav media) and attempted social engineering in the Bosnia of the 1960s and 1970s. The argument is made that the documentaries, despite their questionable aesthetic status (in respect of cinéma-vérité and ethnography) and problematic ideological strategies and attempted interventions, document a history and offer insights that counter the prevailing revisionist trends in the presentation of Eastern and Central European history.
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ISSN:2040-350X
2040-3518
DOI:10.1386/seec.1.2.197_1