Toni Juricic toni.juricic@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy
And the Marble Ass saw the second coming of Tito: Želimir Žilnik’s cinematic representations of a transitional society through the revolutionary carnivalesque
Juricic, Toni
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Abstract
The violent disintegration of the federation at the beginning of the 1990s transformed the Yugoslav sphere into a landscape plagued by its complicated shared history and the arduous process of transition. Coinciding with Milošević’s tendencies towards Greater Serbia, Belgrade became an intersection of anti-war activists, socio-economic difficulties, and nationalist propaganda. Produced within the microcosmos of a post-socialist society undergoing a transition, Želimir Žilnik’s Tito Among the Serbs for the Second Time (1994) and Marble Ass (1995) can be understood through Kevin M. F. Platt’s (1997) notion of the ‘revolutionary grotesque’. For Platt (1997), the revolutionary grotesque is an artistic response that emerges during the periods of radical social transformation, and it is marked by the unusual confrontations and deformations of the past and future. The paper will examine the nature of the revolutionary grotesque found in Žilnik’s films through the collective memory of a post-socialist society and the post-war trauma of its transgressive individuals. To understand Žilnik’s blend of documentary and fiction, which often deploys the notion of the carnivalesque, I will introduce the term ‘revolutionary carnivalesque’ to further corroborate the filmmaker’s cinematic representations of a transitional microcosmos as the space turned upside down.
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Juricic, T. (2023). And the Marble Ass saw the second coming of Tito: Želimir Žilnik’s cinematic representations of a transitional society through the revolutionary carnivalesque. Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 14(2), 154-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040350x.2022.2041368
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Feb 18, 2022 |
Publication Date | 2023 |
Deposit Date | May 23, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | May 18, 2023 |
Journal | Studies in Eastern European Cinema |
Print ISSN | 2040-350X |
Electronic ISSN | 2040-3518 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 154-167 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/2040350x.2022.2041368 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1205389 |
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