JUGONOSTALGIJA U TELEVIZIJSKOJ DOKUMENTARNOJ SERIJI „SFRJ ZA POČETNIKE"
YUGO-NOSTALGIA IN TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY SERIES „SFRJ FOR BEGINNERS”

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the research in the paper was to explore and show the ways of representation of Yugo-nostalgia in a television documentary and entertainment series „SFRJ for Beginners” by using discourse analyses of usage of memory and image reconstruction in shaping the narrative patterns. Is it cheap and banal way of selling Yugoslav sentiment and utopian projection of what never existed? Is it that the personal emotions and feeling of supranational identity of the participants are inevitably equated with communist ideology? Or is it though that the memories of lived experiences of the protagonists, as well as the memories of the entire system of values, upon which they looked at the world around them, are the semantic determinants of Yugo-nostalgia as a productive category. The research results show that analyzed television series, despite the fun and humorous discourse, contains clearly expressed, discourse of critical counter-narratives what is confirmation of the thesis about the validity of the observation of Yugo-nostalgia as a strategy of resistance to the nationalism and as a criticism of collapsed value system in transition post-Yugoslav societies. As an important educational media content „SFRJ for Begginers” represents a link with the common cultural heritage of socialist Yugoslavia and an upgrade to the therapeutic process of decontamination of memory which was confiscated during the nineties under the pressure of nationalist ideology in the newly formed states in the Western Balkans.

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