The Archaic in the Yugoslav Cinema of the 1960s : Modernity’s Discontents in a Post-Revolutionary Film Industry

This book investigates the “Golden Age” of Yugoslav cinema and sheds light on it from a fresh perspective. By examining various tropes and discourses of the “archaic” that shaped not only the flourishing Yugoslav cinematic modernism of the 1960s but also a broader Yugoslav cultural politics, the boo...

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Main Author: Adrian Pelc
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Published: Routledge 2026
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