BOOKS

Petar Krelja — Golik

A book review of the monograph on the late Croatian director Krešo Golik (Petar Krelja ed., 1997, Golik, Zagreb: The Croatian National Archive).

The editor of the book and the author of the leading study on Golik’s work is film critic and film director Petar Krelja. In addition to the leading study, there is a compilation of contemporary interviews with Golik, a collection of contemporary critical reactions and a chapter of personal »Recollections« by Golik’s students and colleagues. The book is supplied with a selective bibliography on Golik and his complete filmography. The Introduction and Summary are also given in the English language.

In a review of the monograph by Petar Krelja: Golik, Zagreb, 1997, the reviewer gives an exhaustive critical analysis of the book, often arguing with the opinions expressed in it. The mosaic-compilation structure of the work contains original essays by the author and a series of articles (most of them previously published) about Krešo Golik. It is an adequate approach to the work of that Croatian film classic. That type of approach unites the positions of authors (critics) of various generations and various methodical starting points, which give the book a welcome diversity and dynamic. At the same time it offers a good model for future monographs of relevant Croatian film authors with complete opuses. An exceptionally useful section of the book includes Golik’s filmography as well as an extensive bibliography of the texts regarding his films. The book has English summaries of the introduction and several representative articles.

Damir Radić