ПОДОЗРЕЊЕ НА ДРУГИ ПОГЛЕД: АМЕРИЧКИ САН И ХОЛИВУДСКИ ЛЕГАТ СТИВА ТЕШИЋА
Suspicion on Second Sight: The American Dream and Hollywood Legacy of Steve Tesich

Summary/Abstract: In the late 1970s, Steve Tesich appeared in Hollywood as a new writer with a fresh set of ideas framed within conventional narrative structures. Having found the space to present personal content within mainstream production, the Yugoslav immigrant created a nostalgic vision of America, breathing vitality into one withered social image. Permeated with the playfulness of ideals on account of which he had embraced his new homeland, his screenplays also leave traces of bitterness of an immigrant whose American Dream was dispersing before his eyes. Tesich’s cinematic expression is led by mild comedy, as well as strong characterization which enables pursuit of layered answers to questions posed by classism, immigraton and social activism. Out of six realized screenplays penned by Tesich, this article deals primarily with films Breaking Away and Four Friends as the most representative samples of his cinematic work and examines them in relation to the norms of the entertainment industry.

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