FILM AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES

Croatian feature film in European context

The author, a distinguished Croatian film critic, gives a brief overview of the history of the Croatian film (primarily feature film), in the European context, starting with Lisinski by Oktavijan Mileti} (1944) and finishing with the problems of the Croatian film in the transition period — war and the post-war years. The author puts special focus on the Yugoslavian context (with an emphasis on the political influence), poetical and ideological influences from western and eastern Europe, problems of the genre cinema, film criticism tendencies, rise of modernism, economical factors, television influence on film poetics. This essay emphasizes that it is important to take into consideration the Croatian cinema peculiarities and also that the Croatian cinema has to be interpreted within the cultural context in which it develops. Furthermore, it is important to identify the manners in which the Croatian film makes a reverse impact on that context. The author also mentions the problem of dominant film production models in Croatia.

Tomislav Kurelec