CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Rimkute, Agne |
|---|---|
| Title | Negotiating Self-management While Producing Films: Yugoslav New Wave and Neoplanta Film Studio in 1966 - 1972 |
| Summary | By focusing on one of the active players of the Yugoslav New Wave, the film production studio Neoplanta Film, this thesis provides an inquiry into the ways in which different actors in a specific kind of self-management socialist society were envisioning and organizing a particular production process – the film industry. The immediate historical background of the events, the late 1960s – early 1970s, was marked by an intensified conflict over cultural policies in which the film industry played an important role. Focusing on both social practices (funding models, administrative relations) and social discourses, the analysis tries to cover a particular type of cultural production which was supposed to further the project of socialist self-management not only through its film production but also through its mode of functioning. In order to analyze the manner in which self-management was carried on in practice and discourse, the study focuses on the production process of two New Wave movies, following their development through the administrative and economic meanderings of the film industry: Želimir Žilnik’s Rani radovi (Early Works, 1969) and Dušan Makavejev’s WR: Misterije organizma (WR: Mysteries of the Organism, 1971). In this way it explores a variety of strategies that studio management and filmmakers employed in furthering their interest in the production of the socially critical New Wave films. These strategies were not merely self-legitimizing tools, but were informed by different understandings of self-management socialism structured by different ways of seeing the relationship between central bureaucracies, markets and cultural autonomy. |
| Supervisor | Trencsényi, Balázs; Sarkisova, Oksana |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/rimkute_agne.pdf |
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