CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Djurovic, Jovana |
|---|---|
| Title | Youth Culture in Transition: Analyses of Films Tilva Ros and Klip |
| Summary | This thesis explores the case of two recent Serbian films, Tilva Roš (2010) and Klip (2012), by analyzing them as examples of coming-of-age genre. Aside from employing conventions of this globally popular cinematic genre, these films also include documentary elements which, on the one hand, differentiate them from most of the famous international coming-of-age films, and link them to previous Yugoslav tradition, on the other. I argue that through employing documentary aesthetic, these films transform coming-of-age story into a socially responsible genre that is engaged with ‘transitional culture’. This, furthermore, allows for analyzing youth culture in transition: the ways youth identities are constructed/represented in these two films. Through intersections of identity categories of gender, class and sexuality – as well as generic norms of heteronormativity, oppressive heterosexuality, and nationalism – the analytical part of the thesis illustrates the way protagonists’ process of growing up in Serbian transitional society affected their identities, shaped in a deeply gendered and classed social environment. Both the authors and main characters of these films are young, which may suggest reasons to speak of “generational films”. Although the history of (post)Yugoslav cinematographies presents us with some examples of youth films, the interpretation of Tilva Roš and Klip as socially engaged generational coming-of-age dramas pinpoints the status of the ‘new’ in the category of ‘new Serbian cinema’. Such interpretation, at the same time, disrupts the national(ist) framework of the category ‘New Serbian film’ in which films are primarily deemed ‘new’ in regards to “old Serbian” films of Yugoslav tradition. |
| Supervisor | Jasmina Lukic |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/djurovic_jovana.pdf |
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