16 Nov
Film Journal
Power, Manipulation and Unmasking: Judit Ember and Gyula Gazdag’s A határozat (The Resolution, 1972)
Power, manipulation and unmaskingJudit Ember – Gyula Gazdag: A határozat (The Resolution; 1972) Power, manipulation and unmaskingJudit Ember – Gyula Gazdag: A határozat (The Resolution; 1972) Power, manipulation and unmaskingJudit Ember – Gyula Gazdag: A…
Continue
01 Nov
Film Journal, Serbian Cinema
Liberated Cinema: Karađorđe, or The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Vožd Karađorđe
By Božidar Zečević Last week marked 110 years since the premiere of the first Serbian feature film Karađorđe (The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Vožd Karađorđe, October 1911) directed by Čiča Ilija Stanojević and…
Continue
09 Dec
Film Journal
A Single Spark and South Korea’s Transition into Democracy
By Connor McMorranOn 13th November 1970, a young textile worker named Jeon Tae-il protested harsh working conditions by self-immolating and running through the streets shouting, “Obey the Labour Standards Act!”. Though Jeon’s solitary act was…
Continue
09 Mar
Bulgarian Cinema, Film Journal
The Goat Horn by Metodi Andonov in the Context of Classical Bulgarian Cinema
By Alexander DonevMetodi Andonov, the director of The Goat Horn (Козият рог, Bulgaria, 1972), entered the cinema in the early 1960s. This particular period of socialist film production in Bulgaria is characterized by the contradictory…
Continue
26 Jun
Film Journal, Yugoslav Cinema
H-8…: A Spectacle Within
By Juraj Kukoč Croatian cinema has never been a cinema of spectacle, neither when it was a part of Yugoslav cinema nor after it gained its independence. Croatian cinema has rather been a cinema of…
Continue