Dr. Dijana Jelača, lecturer in cinema studies at Brooklyn College, and Dr. Olivera Jokić, Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies and Director of the Gender Studies Program at John Jay College, discuss Past: An Introduction to the Problem: Želimir Žilnik on Film, Communism, and Former Yugoslavia. The book, originally published in 2013, is considered to be one with either no author or with many, and so Dr. Jokic is among them, having recently re-edited and translated it from Serbo-Croatian to English. Among the numerous issues raised by the book that Dijana and Olivera discuss is the political and philosophical context of making art, historiography and inclusion and exclusion, and the role of feminism in state socialism.
Discussed in this episode:
- Bini Adamczak’s Yesterday’s Tomorrow
- Adriana Zaharijević, “Serbia’s students are showing the world how to restore democratic hope” in The Guardian
- Kuda.org offers a free pdf of the book
- Iskra Books is the US publisher, also offers a free pdf of the book (US edition is slightly different)
- UNESCO: Memory of the World
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