Author Zoran Samardžija

Zoran Samardžija

Zoran Samardžija is Associate Professor of Cinema and Television Arts at Columbia College Chicago, USA. His research interests include Classical Hollywood, David Lynch, and Eastern European and Balkan cinemas. His book Post-Communist Malaise: Cinematic Responses to European Unification was published in 2020.

Tito’s Image and Working through the Communist Past

Zoran Samardžija

October 2022

After Yugoslavia

The aesthetic and political imperatives for nonfiction film in Serbia, after Yugoslavia, can be understood through the conclusion of Theodor Adorno’s essay, “The Meaning of Working through the Past.” He writes ...