Thinking Film: Cinefied Materiality in Slobodan Šijan’s Fanzine <i>Film Leaflet</i> (1976-1979)

The study focuses on Slobodan Šijan’s single-page, double-sided fanzine called Film Leaflet, created and distributed monthly from 1976 to 1979 in socialist Yugoslavia, examining it as an alternative platform for propagating new critical experimental film practice and interdisciplinary explorations o...

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Main Author: Aleksandar Bošković
Format: Article
Language:ces
Published: Natascha Drubek 2019-07-01
Series:Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe
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Online Access:https://www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/apparatus/article/view/153
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description The study focuses on Slobodan Šijan’s single-page, double-sided fanzine called Film Leaflet, created and distributed monthly from 1976 to 1979 in socialist Yugoslavia, examining it as an alternative platform for propagating new critical experimental film practice and interdisciplinary explorations of the medium. Conceptualized as a platform for the free use of film history, mass media, and pop culture in critical practice, Šijan’s fanzineexercised direct appropriation—re-signification, re-combination, and re-production—of contents from different media in order to articulate the new critical practice of thinking film. I argue that Šijan’s fanzine, as a ciné-dispositive for thinking film, is contingent upon the “schema, a dynamic play of relations” that articulates discourses and practices of its three basic elements with one another: spectator, representation, and medium materiality. In the study, I examine the mutual relations between these three elements in order to both illuminate and critically assess the effects Šijan’s Film Leaflet aimed to produce. Such an alternative critical practice of thinking film represents not only investigation into the material ontology of different reproductive media, but it also extends the notion of fiction by investigating where the ontological levels of media’s reproductive power and human body (our physio-psycho-sociological actions) eventually convene.
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spelling doaj.art-699c30c22b974578a88cefbbc743214e2022-12-22T01:50:45ZcesNatascha DrubekApparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe2365-77582019-07-01810.17892/app.2019.0008.153121Thinking Film: Cinefied Materiality in Slobodan Šijan’s Fanzine <i>Film Leaflet</i> (1976-1979)Aleksandar Bošković0Columbia UniversityThe study focuses on Slobodan Šijan’s single-page, double-sided fanzine called Film Leaflet, created and distributed monthly from 1976 to 1979 in socialist Yugoslavia, examining it as an alternative platform for propagating new critical experimental film practice and interdisciplinary explorations of the medium. Conceptualized as a platform for the free use of film history, mass media, and pop culture in critical practice, Šijan’s fanzineexercised direct appropriation—re-signification, re-combination, and re-production—of contents from different media in order to articulate the new critical practice of thinking film. I argue that Šijan’s fanzine, as a ciné-dispositive for thinking film, is contingent upon the “schema, a dynamic play of relations” that articulates discourses and practices of its three basic elements with one another: spectator, representation, and medium materiality. In the study, I examine the mutual relations between these three elements in order to both illuminate and critically assess the effects Šijan’s Film Leaflet aimed to produce. Such an alternative critical practice of thinking film represents not only investigation into the material ontology of different reproductive media, but it also extends the notion of fiction by investigating where the ontological levels of media’s reproductive power and human body (our physio-psycho-sociological actions) eventually convene.https://www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/apparatus/article/view/153Slobodan ŠijanTomislav Gotovacparacinemacinema by other meansfanzineciné-dispositive
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Thinking Film: Cinefied Materiality in Slobodan Šijan’s Fanzine <i>Film Leaflet</i> (1976-1979)
Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe
Slobodan Šijan
Tomislav Gotovac
paracinema
cinema by other means
fanzine
ciné-dispositive
title Thinking Film: Cinefied Materiality in Slobodan Šijan’s Fanzine <i>Film Leaflet</i> (1976-1979)
title_full Thinking Film: Cinefied Materiality in Slobodan Šijan’s Fanzine <i>Film Leaflet</i> (1976-1979)
title_fullStr Thinking Film: Cinefied Materiality in Slobodan Šijan’s Fanzine <i>Film Leaflet</i> (1976-1979)
title_full_unstemmed Thinking Film: Cinefied Materiality in Slobodan Šijan’s Fanzine <i>Film Leaflet</i> (1976-1979)
title_short Thinking Film: Cinefied Materiality in Slobodan Šijan’s Fanzine <i>Film Leaflet</i> (1976-1979)
title_sort thinking film cinefied materiality in slobodan sijan s fanzine i film leaflet i 1976 1979
topic Slobodan Šijan
Tomislav Gotovac
paracinema
cinema by other means
fanzine
ciné-dispositive
url https://www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/apparatus/article/view/153
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