Модернизација у филму Видео јела, зелен бор – антрополошка анализа
Modernization in the film “Dear Video” – anthropological analysis
Abstract
The subject of this paper is a Serbian feature film Dear Video from 1991. Two brothers, one who is living in Germany and the other who is living in Serbian village and their families are communicating through VHS video tapes. Instead of facilitating their communication, the VHS video tapes actually reveal all that was suppressed and hidden from surface relationships (dishonesty, jealousy, deceptions). Thus, this paper combines two approaches: film ethnography (its diegesis) explained by Kovacevic and Herzfeld's cultural intimacy applied in Serbian film analysis by Naumovic. Feature films, as part of pop cultural phenomena, interpret and give comments on socio-cultural phenomena and therefore can serve also as cognitive tools for understanding the world around us. The aim of the paper is to examine how this film solves the issue of unsuccessful modernization of Serbian villages, in other words, why guest workers did not have greater and more important influence on modernization on their... places of origins. The film shows discord between the two brothers, discord among cousines, discord among villagers and discord among different nationalities in Yugoslavia. At the same time, discord can be interpreted as a self-defiant inner voice of the Serbs, and thus as the example of cultural intimacy and part of Serbian cultural identity. Consequently, these disharmonies can be understood as the answer of failed modernization.
Keywords:
modernization / guest workers / film ethnography / cultural intimacySource:
Etnoantropološki problemi, 2017, 12, 4, 1091-1118Publisher:
- Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd
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- Identity Politics of the European Union: Customisation and Application in the Republic of Serbia (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-177017)
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Etnologija i antropologija / Ethnology and AnthropologyTY - JOUR AU - Brujić, Marija PY - 2017 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2328 AB - The subject of this paper is a Serbian feature film Dear Video from 1991. Two brothers, one who is living in Germany and the other who is living in Serbian village and their families are communicating through VHS video tapes. Instead of facilitating their communication, the VHS video tapes actually reveal all that was suppressed and hidden from surface relationships (dishonesty, jealousy, deceptions). Thus, this paper combines two approaches: film ethnography (its diegesis) explained by Kovacevic and Herzfeld's cultural intimacy applied in Serbian film analysis by Naumovic. Feature films, as part of pop cultural phenomena, interpret and give comments on socio-cultural phenomena and therefore can serve also as cognitive tools for understanding the world around us. The aim of the paper is to examine how this film solves the issue of unsuccessful modernization of Serbian villages, in other words, why guest workers did not have greater and more important influence on modernization on their places of origins. The film shows discord between the two brothers, discord among cousines, discord among villagers and discord among different nationalities in Yugoslavia. At the same time, discord can be interpreted as a self-defiant inner voice of the Serbs, and thus as the example of cultural intimacy and part of Serbian cultural identity. Consequently, these disharmonies can be understood as the answer of failed modernization. PB - Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd T2 - Etnoantropološki problemi T1 - Модернизација у филму Видео јела, зелен бор – антрополошка анализа T1 - Modernization in the film “Dear Video” – anthropological analysis EP - 1118 IS - 4 SP - 1091 VL - 12 DO - 10.21301/eap.v12i4.5 ER -
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Brujić, M.. (2017). Модернизација у филму Видео јела, зелен бор – антрополошка анализа. in Etnoantropološki problemi Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd., 12(4), 1091-1118. https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v12i4.5
Brujić M. Модернизација у филму Видео јела, зелен бор – антрополошка анализа. in Etnoantropološki problemi. 2017;12(4):1091-1118. doi:10.21301/eap.v12i4.5 .
Brujić, Marija, "Модернизација у филму Видео јела, зелен бор – антрополошка анализа" in Etnoantropološki problemi, 12, no. 4 (2017):1091-1118, https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v12i4.5 . .