Silence of the Partisans – Silence in the Yugoslav Partisan Comics

Authors

PILCH Pavel

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Balkanistic Forum
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Mass media, audiovision
Keywords comics; partisans; Yugoslavia; propaganda; silence; Mirko and Slavko
Description This text deals with the motif of silence in the Yugoslav partisan comics which was very popular in the former socialist Yugoslavia. After short introduction to the roots of Yugoslav partisan comics we shows on significant examples of the motif its functional use in the particular works. The process of studying this phenomena brings the results that clearly shows how the silence works in the partisan narrative and how it serve the purposes of communist propaganda.

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