Author: kinopravda

Introduction to Film was conceived as a collection of articles in which students of the Academy of Theater, Film, Radio and Television in Belgrade, as well as all those who want to gain a better understanding of the basic characteristics of the cinematic craft and its techniques, aesthetic principles, and its most important achievements and movements, find the most important data, instructions and explanations. —

edited by Ana Grgić in The Complete Works of Vlada Petrić, Kinopravda Institute / Yugoslav Film Archive, Belgrade, 2022

The publication of this material provides a film study resource for students and teachers
which is unavailable elsewhere. Vlada Petrić’s reading of “A Corner in Wheat” is a work which is comprehensive and rigorous in its hermeneutic approach. This essay represents a critical analysis of the cinematic structure of this film and the cinematic techniques utilized by D. W. Griffith, with Petrić also providing a detailed shot-by-shot and textual analysis of Griffith’s composition within the framework of the filmic action and the course of its development, as well as laying out the structural intricacies of his editing.

After this reading, television can no longer be watched with the same associations as before then, and this confirms that the book Eighth Force not only manages to enrich the reader with new and concrete knowledge, but also abundantly stimulates his imagination.

– Jovan Ćirilov

The explanations and data collected in this book are necessary for anyone who intends to dedicate himself to film directing or any other type of direct work in film industry. —

edited by Dijana Jelača in The Complete Works of Vlada Petrić, Kinopravda Institute / Yugoslav Film Archive, Belgrade, 2023

Is this book proof that Petrić has a conflict between his knowledge and his wish? Is it behind the objective presentation of facts in a clear, very simple way (what it seems that his book is read with interest) does not pulsate the ardent commitment to habitation film as true art? –

edited by Nevena Daković in The Complete Works of Vlada Petrić, Kinopravda Institute / Yugoslav Film Archive, Belgrade, 2023