Croatian Film

Udžbenik hrvatske kulture Hrvatska na prvi pogled nastao je kao rezultat nastojanja da strani studenti kroatistike, slavistike, povijesti, međunarodnih odnosa i drugih srodnih struka dobiju sažet, zgusnut i relevantan izvor informacija o najvažnijim aspektima hrvatske kulture. Dugogodišnje iskustvo predavanja hrvatskoga kao inoga jezika na Croaticumu – Centru za hrvatski kao drugi i strani jezik na Filozofskome fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, kao i kontakt sa stranim studentima i profesorima koji predaju hrvatski jezik i slične predmete na stranim sveučilištima, pokazao je potrebu za osmišljavanjem, izradom i objavljivanjem propedeutičkoga udžbenika u kojem bi bile iznesene osnovne odrednice glavnih segmenata hrvatske kulture. Budući da je ono što se općenito podrazumijeva pod pojmom kulture, kao i ono što se podrazumijeva pod pojmom kulture neke zemlje, širok pojam koji i u najsažetijim crtama premašuje obujam svake, i najveće, knjige, ovaj je udžbenik donosi izbor tema i područja za koje se pokazalo da postoji najviše interesa među zainteresiranima za hrvatsku kulturu, odnosno ona koja su se pokazala polazišnima i ključnima za sagledavanje njezinih glavnih aspekata. Odabrana su područja: geografija Hrvatske, hrvatska povijest, umjetnička i etnološka baština Hrvatske, svakodnevna hrvatska kultura, hrvatski jezik, hrvatska književnost, glazba u Hrvatskoj, politički sustav Hrvatske i njezina politika te hrvatski film, a o svakome od tih područja napisano je po jedno poglavlje. Sva su poglavlja napisali ugledni hrvatski stručnjaci za ta područja, a svako je poglavlje dodatno pregledao i jedan ugledni stručnjak za isto područje koji je svojom recenzijom potvrdio prikladnost i kvalitetu izbora činjenica i interpretacija iznesenih u poglavlju sa stanovišta matične struke.

Croatia at First Sight is the result of an endeavour that students of Croatian studies, Slavic studies, history, international relations and other related studies have a concise and condensed source of relevant information about the most important aspects of Croatian culture.  Many years of experience teaching Croatian as a  second language at Croaticum – Centre for Croatian as a Second and Foreign Language at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department for Croatian Studies, as well as contact with students and professors of Croatian and similar subjects at foreign universities, has revealed the need for the creation and publishing of such a book – an introductory textbook containing the basic features of the main segments of Croatian culture. Given that what is implied by the concept of culture – as well as the culture of a certain country – is too broad to be covered by even the largest book, this textbook contains a selection of topics and subject areas most popular with those who have an interest in Croatian culture, as well as being the best starting point and containing the key factors for any consideration of Croatian culture. The selected subject areas are: geography of Croatia, Croatian history, Croatian artistic and ethnological heritage, everyday life in Croatia, Croatian language, Croatian literature, music in Croatia, Croatian film, and Croatian politics and the political system.  A chapter is dedicated to each subject area, with each chapter written by a Croatian expert in that respective field.  Furthermore, each chapter was reviewed by another respected expert from that field, in order to confirm that the facts and interpretations presented are of a high quality and are in line with their respective field.

Croatia at First Sight is the result of an endeavour that students of Croatian studies, Slavic studies, history, international relations and other related studies have a concise and condensed source of relevant information about the most important aspects of Croatian culture. Many years of experience teaching Croatian as a second language at Croaticum – Centre for Croatian as a Second and Foreign Language at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department for Croatian Studies, as well as contact with students and professors of Croatian and similar subjects at foreign universities, has revealed the need for the creation and publishing of such a book – an introductory textbook containing the basic features of the main segments of Croatian culture. Given that what is implied by the concept of culture – as well as the culture of a certain country – is too broad to be covered by even the largest book, this textbook contains a selection of topics and subject ...

Priručnik sadrži metodički pristup analizi i interpretaciji igranog filma "Moj dida je pao s Marsa", prvog hrvatskog znanstveno-fantastičnog filma za djecu. Priručnik je namijenjen učiteljima i nastavnicima u osnovnoj školi i predmetnoj nastavi. Ovaj priručnik nastao je u sklopu pilot-projekta "Filmovi ne padaju s Marsa" koji partnerski realiziraju Studio dim, Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, Hrvatski filmski savez, KinoKino – Međunarodni filmski festival za djecu i portal medijskapismenost.hr Agencije za elektroničke medije i UNICEF-a uz financijsku potporu Agencije za elektroničke medije.

The Department of Cinema Studies at Charles University in Prague, in connection with the University of Southampton (United Kingdom), would like to invite you to the second annual Contemporary Central and South-East European Cinema in Transition Post-Graduate Conference, taking place in Prague, on 4th and 5th June 2015. The theme of this year’s
conference is “Space in Two Dimensions: Exploring the Concept of Space in the Visual Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe”.

Udžbenik hrvatske kulture Hrvatska na prvi pogled namijenjen je stranim studentima kroatistike, slavistike, povijesti, međunarodnih odnosa i sličnih struka. To je propedeutički udžbenik, dakle služi prednaobrazbi, a sastoji se od deset autorskih tekstova od kojih svaki obrađuje po jedan segment hrvatske kulture. Poglavlja od kojih se sastoji udžbenik jesu sljedeća: Geografija Hrvatske, Hrvatska povijest između periodizacije i interpretacije, Politički sustav i politika Republike Hrvatske, Hrvatski jezik na početku 21. stoljeća, Hrvatska književnost: autori i djela, Hrvatska tradicijska kultura i identiteti nekad i danas, Hrvatski film između nacionalne i nacionalizirane kinematografije, Hrvatska svakodnevica, Umjetnička baština Hrvatske i Glazba u Hrvatskoj. Ta su poglavlja odabrana kao ključna u sagledavanju onoga što se najčešće obuhvaća pojmom kulture. Svako je poglavlje izvorni autorski izbor i pregled glavnih činjenica o pojedinom segmentu hrvatske kulture i njihovih interpretacija. Pri odabiru tema i sadržaja poglavlja vodilo se računa o potrebama i interesima stranih studenata pa se nastojalo odabrati teme i sadržaje za koje oni pokazuju najviše interesa. Autori tekstova pisali su iz perspektive svojih matičnih struka nastojeći prilagoditi znanstveni diskurs svrsi udžbenika i pojednostavniti znanstveni metajezik tako da tekstovi budu razumljivi i stranim studentima koji nemaju prethodna saznanja o činjenicama i kontekstu hrvatske kulture. Uredničkim je radom knjiga jezično prilagođena kako bi je mogli čitati neizvorni govornici koji vladaju hrvatskim jezikom na razini B2 ili višoj. Od velike će koristi stranim studentima biti i osnovni jezični korpus znanstvenoga nazivlja različitih struka koji sadrži knjiga. Važno je naglasiti da do sada u Hrvatskoj nema ni jednoga sličnog sveučilišnog udžbenika koji bi nastojao koncizno i sažeto iznijeti sukus glavnih aspekata hrvatske kulture na jednome mjestu i po tome je ovaj udžbenik originalan i nov. Pristup kulturnoj baštini u udžbeniku suvremen je po tome što se činjenice hrvatske kulture ne iznose kao izolirane činjenice, nego kao dio većega prostornoga i vremenskoga kontinuiteta.

The textbook of Croatian culture Croatia at First Sight is intended for foreign students of Croatian studies, Slavic studies, history, international relations, and other similar fields. It is a propaedeutic textbook, meaning that it serves as an introduction to further study, and it is made up of ten texts which each cover one segment of Croatian culture. The textbook consists of the following chapters: The Geography of Croatia, The History of Croatia between Periodisation and Problematisation, The Political System and Politics of the Republic of Croatia, The Croatian Language at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Croatian Literature: Authors and Periods, Croatian Traditional Culture and Identity Past and Present, Croatian Film between Nationalised and National Cinema, Everyday Life in Croatia, Croatia’s Art Heritage, and Music in Croatia. These chapters were selected as being vital to understanding everything that is most often encompassed by the concept of culture.  For their chapters, each author chose and reviewed the main facts relating to individual segments of culture and their interpretation. When selecting the chapters’ topics and content, the needs and interests of foreign students were taken into consideration, and topics and content for which they show the most interest were selected. The authors of the texts wrote from the perspectives of their own fields and sought to adapt academic discourse to the purpose of the textbook. Academic metalanguage was simplified by the authors in order for the texts to be understood by foreign students with no previous knowledge about the facts and context of Croatian culture. It is important to emphasise that in Croatia there has not been a single university textbook which sought to concisely present the essence of the main aspects of Croatian culture in one place, therefore this textbook is original and new. The textbook has a contemporary approach to cultural heritage: facts about Croatian culture are not presented in isolation, but rather as a part of a greater continuity of space and time. Croatia at First Sight was published in 2014 in Croatian, and the English version was published so that the textbook could reach a broader international audience and so that it could be used by those who have not yet mastered the Croatian language.

The period between 1944 and 1989 is already a closed chapter of the history of Polish culture during which it was subject to numerous restrictions, among other, ideological ones. The leading theme of the very book is a small fragment of the PRL reality, the sphere of cultural contacts with Yugoslavia, or, more precisely, the Socialist Republic of Croatia, its part at that time. The period under investigation consists of several phases. All periodization borderlines, both internal and external ones, are determined by political facts. Politics, though, gave rhythm to cultural life, and was the most important factor shaping a social background of the cultural activity those days. Both the situation on the international stage, concerned with not as much bilateral Polish-Yugoslavian relationship, as the state of affairs between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and the internal one played an important role. The influence of external factors turned out to be more significant in the beginning. A political situation was becoming more important starting from the 1970s. Writers in the Polish People’s Republic period, forced by the party, became active participants of a political life that is why internal problems often made literary contacts abroad secondary as writers and their organizations were more busy with the current situation in their closest environment. Croatian-Polish cultural contacts covered literature, music, film, theatre, and plastic art (there was also a cooperation with museums, libraries, and architecture, but it is not the subject of consideration here). Cultural relationships with abroad were a part of the foreign policy in the country that was totally in charge of this sphere. Its institutions dealt with programming, realization and financing. The country formulated requirements and claimed the right to control cultural activity. As a result of decentralization (Decision on decentralization of a cultural-educational exchange with abroad from 01.01.1968 (Odluka o decentralizacji kulturno-prosvjetne razmjene s inozemstvom sa danom 01.01.1968.) taken by the Federal Executive Council at the meeting on June 13 1966, was most important  in terms of the cultural cooperation in Yugoslavia), the culture there was more pluralistic and scattered, but ideologically, more similar to the Polish model. Transferring responsibility for the cultural sphere into particular republics meant not only the privilege of planning and building cultural contacts by republic centres, but also the necessity to finance them. However, the most important subject of the cultural cooperation in both countries was the country as its exclusive patron. The difference between Warsaw and Belgrade consisted in multiplying decisive centres in the case of Yugoslavia. The contacts were made on the basis of contracts, programmes and agreements signed by the governments, institutions and organizations in both countries. The country authorities responsible for cultural cooperation (particular departments of central committees of both countries  and national administration), creative unions (among others ZLP (Union of Polish Writers) and ZLJ (Union of Yugoslavian Writers)) , the mass media, the press above all, and publishing houses took part in institutional transmitting the cultural products and shaping their image. The process of locating the Croatian literature in Poland, on the other hand, was above all popularized by translators and  researchers publishing their texts in the literary, as well as cultural-social press, as well as cultural journalists. These were the most significant indirect link. A decisive voice was given to the Warsaw circle. The image of the Croatian literature and culture was created by Alija Dukanović, Danuta Cirlić-Straszyńska, Grzegorz Łatuszyński, Edward Madany, Jan Wierzbicki and Zygmunt Stoberski. The magazines that published the greatest number of Craotian works, such as “Dialog”, “Literatura na Świecie”, “Poezja”, and “Twórczość” were also released in Warsaw. From other centres, Kraków competed with Warsaw, which was unequal, with the biggest success in terms of the research studies ( the most active institution in Poland was the PAN  Committee of Slavic studies, having its branch in Kraków). In Kraków, it was Julian Kornhauser, a poet, translator, literature researcher, literary and translation critic, as well as Włodzimierz Kot and Maria Dąbrowska-Partyka that were most outstanding figures. The strongest turned out theatrical and literary connections. 38 plays by Croatian authors (in 86 realisations), including 6 performances for children were staged in Polish theatres in the very period. The consolidation of literary activity was possible thanks to visits writers and translators paid in order to sign contracts between ZLJ and ZLP, to take part in conferences, literary events, conventions, and study visits, as well as translations. 59 translations of the literature altogether, (65 with Yugoslavian anthologies), including 10 publications of the literature for children and for the youth, while 4 of them were second editions. Hence, 55 new publications were released between 1944 and 1989. The magazines published several hundred translations of the Croatian literature, above all, poetry. In the case of book translations, on the other hand, there was a great disproportion in favour of prose, visible not only in the number of novels and stories published, but also their edition copies. Apart from novels, the biggest edition concerned literature for children and teenagers, and science fiction one, popular in the 1980s. Film contacts were most prestigious. Cinematography was considered to influence its audience most strongly, and be the most efficient means of propaganda. Music cooperation consisted in basically individual visits paid by people connected with music who came to participate in the vents organized in Poland, and performances of particular artists. The relations within plastic arts included organization of exhibitions. 17 Yugoslavian and 7 Croatian, including 5 group and 2 individual ones were prepared, all of which dated in the 1970s and 1980s, that is, the period of decentralizing the sphere of cultural cooperation abroad in Yugoslavia. What is more, the artists from Croatia took part in international events many a time, such as photographic exhibitions, International Exhibition of Ceramics in Sopot, Warsaw International Poster Biennale, and International Biennale of Graphic Art in Kraków, belonging to the circle of its winners.
The biggest recognition in the whole Croatian-Polish cultural cooperation  of the very period received sculpture of the world famous artist Ivan Meštrovic, naïve painting, Ivo Brešan’s play Przedstawienie “Hamleta” we wsi Głucha Dolna, Vladan Desnica’s novel Niespokojne wiosny, Ivo Pogorelić’s performances, in the 10th International Chopin Piano Competition. The most famous Croatian writer in the period under investigation was Miroslav Krežla.

Udžbenik hrvatske kulture Hrvatska na prvi pogled nastao je kao rezultat nastojanja da strani studenti kroatistike, slavistike, povijesti, međunarodnih odnosa i drugih srodnih struka dobiju sažet, zgusnut i relevantan izvor informacija o najvažnijim aspektima hrvatske kulture. Dugogodišnje iskustvo predavanja hrvatskoga kao inoga jezika na Croaticumu – Centru za hrvatski kao drugi i strani jezik na Filozofskome fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, kao i kontakt sa stranim studentima i profesorima koji predaju hrvatski jezik i slične predmete na stranim sveučilištima, pokazao je potrebu za osmišljavanjem, izradom i objavljivanjem propedeutičkoga udžbenika u kojem bi bile iznesene osnovne odrednice glavnih segmenata hrvatske kulture. Budući da je ono što se općenito podrazumijeva pod pojmom kulture, kao i ono što se podrazumijeva pod pojmom kulture neke zemlje, širok pojam koji i u najsažetijim crtama premašuje obujam svake, i najveće, knjige, ovaj je udžbenik donosi izbor tema i područja za koje se pokazalo da postoji najviše interesa među zainteresiranima za hrvatsku kulturu, odnosno ona koja su se pokazala polazišnima i ključnima za sagledavanje njezinih glavnih aspekata. Odabrana su područja: geografija Hrvatske, hrvatska povijest, umjetnička i etnološka baština Hrvatske, svakodnevna hrvatska kultura, hrvatski jezik, hrvatska književnost, glazba u Hrvatskoj, politički sustav Hrvatske i njezina politika te hrvatski film, a o svakome od tih područja napisano je po jedno poglavlje. Sva su poglavlja napisali ugledni hrvatski stručnjaci za ta područja, a svako je poglavlje dodatno pregledao i jedan ugledni stručnjak za isto područje koji je svojom recenzijom potvrdio prikladnost i kvalitetu izbora činjenica i interpretacija iznesenih u poglavlju sa stanovišta matične struke.