Slika Josipa Broza Tita u partizanskom ratnom spektaklu
Image of J. B. Tito in Partisan War Epics

Author(s): Nemanja Zvijer
Subject(s): Cultural history, Political history, Government/Political systems, Politics and society, Sociology of Culture, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: Tito; socialistic Yugoslavia; partisan war epics; ideology; politics;
Summary/Abstract: This text should provide a sort of sketch for a film portrait of Josip Broz Tito. Partisan war epics were taken as examples for Tito’s cinematic image. Among the selected films, attention is particularly focused on those about seven military operations of German army and its allies against Yugoslav partisans during the World War Two. Those battles became very significant (in real and symbolic sense) for ideological discourse of Yugoslav communists, while the films about them were an important segment of the socialistic Yugoslav cinematography and popular culture in general. The modes of film construction of Tito's image will be observed through these films. Also, partially will be considered the role of the J. B. Tito in production of these films. In a broader sense, this kind of analysis should provide insights in mechanisms of visual ideologization and ideologization the popular culture in socialism, in which the partisan film was a kind of brand, and Tito's charisma formula that could not fail.

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