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Goran Gocić

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Goran Gocić

Goran Gocić (born May 6, 1962) is a Serbian freelance journalist,[1] editor, author and filmmaker, whose work has been published or broadcast by many media organizations worldwide. Gocic is the winner of the NIN Prize, a prestigious Serbian literary award for 2014.[2]

Books

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  • Pornocratia: A Cultural History of Sex in the Media (2008/2009), a monograph on the ascent of pornography in the West, is his largest project so far.
  • Želimir Žilnik: Above the Red Dust (2003) (chapter)
  • Notes from the Underground: The Cinema of Emir Kusturica (2001/2006)[1]
  • Degraded Capability: Media and the Kosovo Crisis (2000) (chapter)
  • Andy Warhol and Strategies of Pop (1997)
  • Tai (2013)
  • Last Stop Britain (2017)
  • A Man From Negligence (2021)

Education

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Goran Gocić in conversation with Milena Đorđijević, at Kosančićev venac in Belgrade

Gocić graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade in 1991 with a degree in English language and literature.[2] He received an M.A. in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics in 1999.[2]

Cinematography

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Gocić worked as an undercover reporter (in style of Gunter Walraff’s Ganz Unten) in the documentary Bloody Foreigners (2001) for the UK Channel 4 series Dispatches. He has become a champion of the DV revolution.

He runs Force Majeure, the production company for feature documentaries Balkan Diaries: Bulgaria, on Orthodox priests facing transitional turmoil and Today a Visa, Tomorrow the World on Serbian troubles with visas.

References

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  1. ^ a b (13 August 2007). Finding roots in a reel Balkan village, Los Angeles Times" ("Goran Gocic a Serbian film critic who has written a biography of Kusturica ...")
  2. ^ a b c "Goran Gocic". Laguna.rs.