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Serbian Film: The Fifties Saša Radojević's book is the first systematic attempt to critically revalue Serbian film heritage of the 1950s.

Saša Radojević's book is the first systematic attempt to critically revalue Serbian film heritage of the 1950s. As the author points out in his Introduction, "it is therefore a film production that is less known to the local audience, primarily due to the canonization of the black wave members of the sixties". Having taken in consideration, as he said, "a wider range of films", Saša Radojević firmly underlines that, first of all, there is something to be revalued in this decade, and then, that the outlines of certain authorial expressions began to appear back then (examples of Vojislav Nanovič and Žika Mitrović), and that in their aesthetic level some of these films were anticipatory in relation to the modernist boom of the sixties. We profiled genre patterns already in this decade, regardless of the fact that the heritage of WWII Partisan Movement was an inspiration but also a restraining factor. Through eight concise, remarkably well-edited chapters, Saša Radojević reaffirms a tradition that, fortunately we had, and what’s more, a tradition that was worth much more than the official mark that remained about it.