The point of this blog is to have fun and share information and trivia about Yugoslav feature films made since 1945. In other words, despite my academic inclinations, this is not a blog designed for long-winded and sophisticated analysis of the films.
Nonetheless, I would be completely amiss if I did not mention two outstanding and also very entertaining scholarly books on Yugoslav film. The first one is Daniel J. Goulding's Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001, originally published in 1985, with a revised and expanded edition appearing in 2002. The other one, quite different but every bit as enjoyable, is Pavle Levi's Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema. I do not pretend to know even a fraction as much about Yugoslav cinema as Goulding and Levi do. I mention their books because they manage to convey a great amount of useful information and analysis while never losing sight of the enjoyment of the films themselves. In fact, it was Goulding's book that made me go back and watch "Slavica," the first Yugoslav film made after 1945, and hence the subject of the first film treated on this blog.
In Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (the former Serbo-Croatian), the book of record is in many respects Petar Volk's enormous Istorija jugoslovenskog filma (The History of Yugoslav Film) published in Belgrade in 1986. It gives an excellent and very thorough overview of Yugoslav film history from the very beginning until the mid-1980s, and includes a great many posters and photo stills from Yugoslav feature films.
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