“Mislim da sam vidio Micu Macu”: animalna naličja Balkana i popularna kultura
"I Thin I Taw a Puddy Tat": Reverse faces of the Balkans and Popular Culture
Author(s): Tomislav OrozSubject(s): Customs / Folklore, Visual Arts, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Culture, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
Keywords: the Balkans; Cat People; Val Lewton; balkanistic discourses; film; popular culture;
Summary/Abstract: This paper is an attempt to re-think various representations of the Balkans through the analysis of the cat-woman figure in various aspects of popular culture: from Val Lewton's and Jacques Tournier's film Cat people, to diverse artistic expressions by artist from the Balkans. The film Cat People from 1942 presents an often stigmatized, obscure image of the Balkans, unlike artistic expressions several decades later that experiment with ethnocentric notions of the Balkans.
Journal: Narodna umjetnost - Hrvatski časopis za etnologiju i folkloristiku
- Issue Year: 53/2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 9-34
- Page Count: 26
- Language: Croatian