Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. On Partisans and Partisanship in Yugoslavia’s Arts 9
4. Partisan Narratives, Stagings and Transformations
5. Contemporary Art. A Meeting of the Current and the Cosmic! 31
6. Yugoslav Partisan Poetry. Songs for the Leader 49
7. From Memoir to Fiction. Early Yugoslav Partisan Narratives Revisited 71
8. Partisan Star Wars. Aesthetics of Ideology, Ideology of Aesthetics in Croatian Partisan Novels 91
9. With or Without Gun. Staging Female Partisans in Socialist Yugoslavia 117
10. Portraits of Yugoslav Army Soldiers. Between Partisan and Pop-Culture Imagery 137
11. Partisan (Feature) Film in Yugoslavia: A ‘House’-Genre With an Afterlife
12. From Slavko to Slavica. (Soviet) Origins of (Yugoslav) Partisan Film 159
13. On the Specific (In)existence of the Partisan Film in Yugoslavia's People’s Liberation Struggle 197
14. Narrative and Genre Influences of the International Classical Cinema in the Partisan Films of Živorad-Žika Mitrović 227
15. 1970s Partisan Epics as Western Films. The Question of Genre and Myth in Yugoslav Partisan Film 245
16. Bodies That Shudder. Disability and Typhus Sufferers in Partisan Films 265
17. We Need to Talk About Valter. Partisan Film and the Anti-Leftist Odium 283
18. Trenutki Odločitve. A Slovene Partisan Story from the 50s and 80s 315
19. Trst Je Naš ! Post-Socialist Slovenian Partisan Cinema 347
20. The Partisan as an Artist, the Artist as a Partisan? On the Relationship between Artistic Autonomy and Workers’ Self Management 363
21. Bibliography 377
22. Authors 379