Alone in the Cinemascope

Abstract

This chapter focuses on Yugoslav filmmaker Slobodan Šijan’s production of the Film Leaflet (1976–1979), a single-page, double-sided fanzine exemplifying paracinematic practices that expanded cinematic experimentation beyond the movie screen. While relatively marginal in Yugoslav experimental, amateur film culture, the work expresses key aspects of this creative milieu and Yugoslav culture more broadly, forged in a hybrid environment where official and alternative cultures coalesced, and where Socialist ideology coexisted with an appreciation of American popular media. Šijan’s cine-zine critically engaged these scenes and the practices of cinema-going and programming as a self-referential hypertext of radical amateurism, presenting a critical inquiry into cultural reproduction. This study considers both the period’s overall culture and the film cultural references that surface in the Film Leaflet.