Books

Born on April 3 1943 in Zagreb. Published his first text in May 1961 in the high-school magazine Polet, and his first preofessional text in November 1962, in the art and culture magazine Telegram. From then until his death, he published reviews, essays, studies and books. Paid close and continual attention to Yugoslav cinema, animated film, strip, documentray film, fantastic art, television, and actors and actresses. Collaborated on several scripts for feature films, and wrote a number of scripts for cartoons. In the 1970's and 1980's, as a member of the Board of Directors of the ASIFA, the International Animated Film Association, he took part in worldwide popularization and promotion of animated film. He was a member of juries and selection committees at around twenty festivals of short and animated films worldwide. At home and abroad, he organized around a hundred large and small retrospectives of Yugoslav short films, most notably of the works of the Zagreb School of Animated Films and the Belgrade School of Documentary Films. From the 1960's he took part in major TV shows in Zagreb and Belgrade dedicated to film, while from the second half of the 1980's to the second half of the 1990's he authored about twenty one-hour portraits of leading actors for the Novi Sad TV (in his own series Veče sa zvezdama [An Evening with the Stars]). From 1972 to 2009 he lived in Belgrade.

He published the following books:


Yugoslav film

 

  • PROMETEJ S OTOKA VIŠEVICE [The Prometheus of the Viševica Island], Zagreb, 1965
  • BITKA NA NERETVI [The Battle of Neretva], Zagreb, 1969
  • ŽIVJET ĆE VEČNO OVAJ NAROD [This People Will Live Forever], Zagreb, 1974
  • TE SLATKE FILMSKE LAŽI [Those Sweet Film Lies], Belgrade, 1977
  • 207 FESTIVALSKIH DANA U PULI [207 Festival Days in Pula], Pula, 1978
  • OBDOBJA JUGOSLAVENSKOGA FILMA [The Periods of Yugoslav Cinema], Ljubljana 1978
  • JUGOSLAVENSKI FILMSKI SLUČAJ [The Case of Yugoslav Cinema], Split, 1980
  • KINO KLUB BEOGRAD ili trojanski konj jugoslovenskog modernog filma [The Belgrade Ciné-Club, or the Trojan Horse of the Contemporary Yugoslav Cinema], Belgrade, 2003
  • ADIO, JUGO-FILM [Farewell, Yugoslav Cinema], Belgrade, 2005


Authors

 

  • JEAN VIGO, Ljubljana 1970.
  • ŽIVOJIN PAVLOVIĆ, Belgrade, 1997
  • SRĐAN KARANOVIĆ, Belgrade, 2000
  • GORAN MARKOVIĆ, Belgrade, 2001
  • EMIR KUSTURICA, Belgrade, 2001
  • MARTINAC, Zagreb, 2011


Documentary film

 

  • BEOGRADSKA ŠKOLA DOKUMENTARNOG FILMA [The Belgrade School of Documentary Films], Belgrade, 1967
  • O DOKUMENTARNOM FILMU [On Documentary Film], Belgrade, 1975
  • FILMSKE ZVRSTI IN ŽANRI [Film Categories and Genres], Ljubljana, 1977
  • DOKUMENTARNI FILM - DA ILI NE? [Documentary Film – Yes or No?], Belgrade, 1982


Animated film: theory

 

  • O ANIMACIJI [On Animation], Belgrade, 1973
  • DEŽELA ANIMIRANIH ČUDES [The Land of Animated Wonders], Ljubljana, 1976
  • TEORIJA ANIMACIJE [The Theory of Animation], Belgrade, 1981
  • UVOD U ESTETIKU KINEMATOGRAFSKE ANIMACIJE [An Introduction to the Esthetics of Animated Film], Zagreb - Belgrade, 1982
  • KRITIČKA RETROSPEKTIVA ZAGREBAČKE ŠKOLE [A Critical Retrospective of the Zagreb School], Zagreb, 1982
  • ESTETIKA ANIMACIJE [The Esthetics of Animated Film], Belgrade, 2007
  • ZBORNIK O ANIMACIJI [A Compendium of Texts on Animated Films], Beograd, 2009
  • ESTETIKA ANIMACIJE [The Esthetics of Animated Film], Zagreb, 2012


Animated film: history

 

  • ZAGREBAČKI KRUG CRTANOG FILMA I [The Zagreb Circle of Animated Films I], Zagreb, 1978
  • ZAGREBAČKI KRUG CRTANOG FILMA II [The Zagreb Circle of Animated Films II], Zagreb, 1978
  • ZAGREBAČKI KRUG CRTANOG FILMA III [The Zagreb Circle of Animated Films III], Zagreb, 1978
  • KINEMATOGRAFSKA ANIMACIJA U JUGOSLAVIJI [Animated Film in Yugoslavia], Belgrade, 1979
  • PET SVJETSKIH FESTIVALA U ZAGREBU [Five International Festivals in Zagreb], Zagreb, 1984
  • 80 FILMOVA ZAGREBAČKE ŠKOLE [80 Films of the Zagreb School], Novi Sad, 1984
  • ZAGREBAČKI KRUG CRTANOG FILMA IV [The Zagreb Circle of Animated Films IV], Zagreb, 1986
  • POLA VEKA ANIMIRANOG FILMA U SRBIJI [A Half-century of Animated Film in Serbia], Belgrade, 1999


Fantastic art

 

  • FANTASTIKA NA EKRANU I [Fantasy on the Screen I], Belgrade, 1971
  • FANTASTIKA NA EKRANU II [Fantasy on the Screen II], Belgrade, 1973
  • ALISA NA PUTU KROZ PODZEMLJE I KROZ SVEMIR [Alice on a Journey through the Underworld and through Space], Belgrade, 1986
  • ČUDOVIŠTA KOJA SMO VOLELI I [The Monsters We Loved I], Belgrade 1990
  • ČUDOVIŠTA KOJA SMO VOLELI II [The Monsters We Loved II], Belgrade 1997
  • ČUDOVIŠTA KOJA SMO VOLELI 1 [The Monsters We Loved 1], Belgrade, 2007
  • ČUDOVIŠTA KOJA SMO VOLELI 2 [The Monsters We Loved 2], Belgrade, 2008
  • ČUDOVIŠTA KOJA SMO VOLELI 3 [The Monsters We Loved 3], Belgrade, 2008
  • ČUDOVIŠTA KOJA SMO VOLELI 4 [The Monsters We Loved 4], Belgrade, 2009
  • ČUDOVIŠTA KOJA SMO VOLELI 5 [The Monsters We Loved 5], Belgrade, 2011


Strip

 

  • STRIP – DEVETA UMETNOST [Strip – The Ninth Art], Belgrade, 1975
  • SEXARION SUPERSTRIP, Belgrade, 1988
  • FUCKING COMIKS, Belgrade, 2006
  • DEVETA UMETNOST, STRIP [The Ninth Art, Strip], Belgrade, 2006
  • DEVETA UMETNOST, STRIP – drugo izdanje [The Ninth Art, Strip – the second edition], Belgrade, 2006
  • STRIP, DEVETA UMJETNOST [Strip, the Ninth Art], Zagreb, 2010


Actors – monographs

 

  • PAVLE VUISIĆ, Niš, 1985
  • OLIVERA MARKOVIĆ, Niš, 1988
  • JANEZ VRHOVEC, Niš, 1989
  • RADE MARKOVIĆ, Niš, 1990
  • DUŠAN JANIĆIJEVIĆ, Niš, 1993
  • MILENA DRAVIĆ, Niš, 1995
  • LJUBA TADIĆ, Niš, 1997
  • MIĆA TOMIĆ, Niš, 1998
  • BATA STOJKOVIĆ, Belgrade-Niš, 1999
  • DUŠICA ŽEGARAC, Niš, 2000
  • ALEKSANDAR BERČEK, Niš, 2002
  • BORA TODOROVIĆ, Niš, 2003
  • ČKALJA, Belgrade, 2005
  • MIKI MANOJLOVIĆ, Niš, 2006
  • MIRA STUPICA, Niš, 2009


Collected texts

  • TUCANJE DINOSAURA [The Shagging of Dinosaurs], Split, 1984
  • OGLEDALO OD HARTIJE [The Paper Mirror], Belgrade, 1998
  • 14.444 KRITIČARSKA DANA [14,444 Days of Reviews], Belgrade, 2001


Serbian film

  • SRPSKI VEK FILMA [A Century of Serbian Cinema], Belgrade, 1999
  • BEOGRADSKI FILMSKI KRITIČARSKI KRUG I [The Belgrade Circle of Film Reviewers I], Niš, 2002
  • BEOGRADSKI FILMSKI KRITIČARSKI KRUG II [The Belgrade Circle of Film Reviewers II], Niš, 2005
  • BEOGRADSKI FILMSKI KRITIČARSKI KRUG III [The Belgrade Circle of Film Reviewers III], Niš, 2007
  • FILMSKA SLIKA I STVARNOST [The Film Image and Reality], Belgrade, 2009
  • PITANJE FILMSKE KRITIKE [The question of film criticism], Belgrade, 2012


Television

  • DUPLI PAS [A One-Two], Belgrade, 2012


Memoirs

  • FILMSKI PRIJATELJI [Film Friends], Novi Sad, 1997
  • FILMSKI NEPRIJATELJI [Film Enemies], Novi Sad, 1999
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