Modernization, Crises, Cultural Revolutions

Yugoslavia’s 1960s and 1970s through the amateur film lens

By (author) Hanna Stein

Book cover: Modernization, Crises, Cultural Revolutions

Extent: 284 pages

Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Wien

Subjects: Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Series: Zur Kunde Sudosteuropas

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2026)

ISBN: 9783205224709

6.93 x 9.69 inches

Price: $94.00

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An engaging, historical, audiovisual perspective on Yugoslav politics, culture, and everyday life


Drawing from a thematic and formal analysis of over 170 ciné club productions, as well as original archival research, this study explores Yugoslav amateur films beyond their crucial role in experimental and professional cinema. The study provides a nuanced account of the creative, pragmatic, intermedial, and political strategies employed by amateur filmmakers to depict, comment on, criticize, and make sense of the “world around them.” Politics, practices, and productions of film amateurism are examined as lenses through which to view the history of everyday life in Yugoslavia, which emerges as an audiovisual history of vast sociopolitical transformations, and a complex interplay of political ambiguities, cultural revolutions, and global entanglements during the 1960s and 1970s.

  • By (author) Hanna Stein