Media presentation of dramatic arts from 1990 - 1995 - on the example of Narodni list in Zadar in the Republic of Croatia
Media presentation of dramatic arts from 1990 - 1995 - on the example of Narodni list in Zadar in the Republic of Croatia

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the 1990s Croatia was affected by the Homeland War as the consequence of the desire for the creation of an independent and sovereign state, i.e. separation from the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. In January 1990 the Constitution was adopted, in which it is stipulated that the Republic of Croatia is a “unitary and indivisible democratic and social state” Constitution of the Republic of Croatia (1990). The Homeland War brought a large number of human casualties and a significant part of cultural heritage was destroyed. Culture is an important segment of human life, but it is not high on the list of priorities during wartime circumstances, regarding the fight for survival, social and other problems. However, for maintaining spiritual stability in these difficult times culture has a prominent role. Dramatic arts, alongside literature, fine arts, music and performing arts, movies, the media, cultural heritage and other forms of cultural expression play an important role. This paper explores articles published in the weekly newspaper in Zadar, Narodni list, which covered dramatic arts during the pre-war and war times. It is just because of that reason why the purpose of the paper is to firstly analyse the themes of the articles in the field of dramatic arts, in order to create an image of the contents of newspaper articles, and after that journalist genres, as to acquire an insight into the manner of journalistic approach to the explored theme. The research corpus includes 143 articles published in the period from 1990 to 1995. The paper applies the method of quantitative and qualitative content analysis.

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