{"id":2851,"date":"2017-01-23T23:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2017-01-23T23:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T23:00:05","slug":"over-her-oriental-body-the-shalwar-melodramas-of-the-classical-yugoslav-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=2851","title":{"rendered":"Over her Oriental body: The \u201cshalwar\u201d melodramas of the classical Yugoslav cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Audience: Open to the Public<\/span><\/p>\n


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Speaker: Nebojsa Jovanovic<\/span><\/p>\n


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Organizer: Department of History PASTS, Inc. <\/span><\/p>\n


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Building: Nador u. 11<\/span><\/p>\n


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The PASTS, Inc. Center for Historical Studies and the Department of History at Central European University cordially invites you to the presentation of the new issue of East Central Europe<\/i> and the fifth lecture in the Departmental Research Seminar Series 2016\/17. <\/span><\/p>\n


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The talk tackles a specific film genre that marked Yugoslav cinema from the late 1940s to mid-1950s: the so-called \u201cshalwar films [\u0161alvarski filmovi<\/i>]\u201d, the historical melodramas set at the background of the Ottoman rule in the Balkans. No other group of films in the classical Yugoslav cinema did foreground gender and sexuality in such complex and ambiguous ways, appearing at the same time anti-patriarchal and patriarchal, progressive and conservative, empowering and exploitative. These films by rule featured the assertive female protagonists; the genre\u2019s very label referred to loose trousers made of silk or cotton, as the most emblematic Oriental women\u2019s garments. The \u201cshalwar films\u201d offered a socialist criticism of the women\u2019s disenfranchisement in the pre-modern era, but also channeled the gender troubles of their own milieu. In order to explore the genre\u2019s narratives, imaginary, and gender politics, the talk will include the inserts from the shalwar classics Sofka <\/i>(1948), Ciganka\/Gypsy Girl<\/i> (1953), Anikina vremena\/Anika\u2019s Times<\/i> (1954), and Hanka<\/i> (1955).<\/span><\/p>\n


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Neboj\u0161a Jovanovi\u0107<\/span><\/b> holds a PhD from Central European University in Budapest, Department of Gender Studies. His work on gender and sexuality in Yugoslav cinema of the socialist era has been published in edited volumes \u2013 Retracing Images: Visual Culture after Yugoslavia<\/i> (ed. Daniel \u0160uber and Slobodan Karamani\u0107, Brill, 2012), and Partisans in Yugoslavia: Literature, Film and Visual Culture<\/i> (ed. Miranda Jaki\u0161a, Nikica Gili\u0107, Transcript Verlag, 2015) \u2013 and film journals such as Studies in Eastern European Cinema<\/i>, KINO!<\/i>, and Hrvatski filmski ljetopis<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n


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