Introduction.
1. Some introductory thoughts on modernist animation.
2. Little man at the turn of the worlds.
3. Central European humour in regional animation.
4. The view from the glass dome.
5. The tradion of intermingling between comics and animation in the Zagreb School.
6. The new wave of Croatian animation.
Biography
Midhat Ajanović is a writer and film scholar born in Sarajevo (Bosnia) in 1959. He studied journalism in Sarajevo and practiced film animation at the Zagreb Film Studio of Animation (Croatia). Since 1994 he has lived in Gothenburg where he obtained a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Film Studies. He teaches storytelling, history and aesthetics of cinema animation at University West in Trollhättan and writes regularly about film and animation.
“Ajanović's Animation in Croatia is not the first English-language book on the Zagreb School, but it is the most comprehensive. It is the only history of the Zagreb School that follows it to its decline. One of the book’s most interesting aspects is that Ajanović’s analysis does not stop in the early 1980s. He also examines what happened afterward, up to the present day. Given that the more recent history of Croatian animation is far less studied, his book holds even greater significance.”
Jurica Pavičić, published in Jutarnji.
