Amerikanizacija balkanoida: 40 godina Nešto između.

More or less apparent freedoms of post-Titoism and the period after Tito’s death were mostly visible in the flourishing cultural phenomenon known by its borrowed name – “new wave”, which in the former Yugoslavia gained a distinct and versatile significance. Like all other similar cultural movements (German expressionism, neorealism, nouvelle vague, black wave etc) this one was short-lived, lasting merely threefour years. In the final year, 1982, it provided a magnificent, cultural, intellectual, cryptic and emotional explosion that spanned from Odbrana i poslednji dani by Idoli or even the debut of Haustor, all the way to Karanović’s meticulous melodrama Something in Between or Marković’s vivisection of a local institution as a global state in Variola Vera. In its longer version, as a TV series, Something in Between showed the face and the reverse of Belgrade at the time of civil defense exercises, the economic crisis, the emancipation of Western consumerism, and the demise of the denounced idea of workers’ self-management. In these nowheres, during the 1980s, Yugoslavia bid a grand farewell to domestic and foreign audiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]