Section outline

    • Socialist Cultural Utopia in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The aim of understanding socialist cultural utopia is presented by fundamental cultural aspects of the Yugoslav and Czechoslovak cultural policy from the beginning of IIWW until the fall of Iron Curtain including last years of the 20th century. Various aspects of cultural life in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia will be presented by overarching perspective of selected visual aesthetics in cinematography, literature, architecture, performing and visual arts.
    • The interpretation will follow the phenomenon of art that documents the style and artistic tendencies of the time when they were up-to-date. On behalf of cultural utopia we will present the most important social and political events and periods of second half of the 20th century in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.
    • Database of Croatian Science Journals

    • Josip Broz Tito

  • Introduction of the topic of course, Fast overview of history and culture of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia

  • Reflections on IIWW and the situation after; Socialist culture and Yugoslav cultural hybridity and opposite approach in Czechoslovakia

  • DOCU FILM: Cinema Komunisto (M. Turajlić, 2012) + discussion

  • Yugoslavia heading to USA, a consumer society, shopping and new tourism; Czechoslovakia and making towards Prague Spring

  • (banned) FILM: The Ear (K. Kachyňa, 1970) + analysis of film

  • Yugoslavia and its alternative culture; Czechoslovakia and Normalisation

  • FILM: Balkan spy (D. Kovačević, 1984) + analysis of film

  • New visions for socialist society in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia

  • DOCU FILM: Happy child (I. Mirković; 2007) + discussion

  • Folk arts and its effect on society in Yugoslovakia and Czechoslovakia

  • FILM: Sun, Hay and Strawberries (Z. Troška, 1983) + analysis of film

  • Time of dreadful Delight: populist literature and culture on a path towards the fall of the Socialism.

  • DOCU FILM: Louder than guns (M. Slikavica; 2017) Final conclusion.