Author
Milen Alempijević (Čačak)
Speaking about the book
Igor Toholj • Milen Alempijević (the author)
Jazz in the context of cinema is usually associative of the biographic film treating focusing on lives of real or fictitious jazz musicians those jazz musicians who had the delicate role of contributing music to films. However, the study The Day When Miles Evans Disappeared: Jazz and Film Narration is intended to reveal in the feature films that fall in none of the aforementioned categories a sometimes small, but important presence of jazz. It is jazz that is not in the foreground, the one that is not necessarily crucial for the plot, but is always an important micronarrative in its structure, an invaluable detail which gives to a scene a particular tone or is implies an important character streak of the hero. The study The Day When Miles Evans Disappeared: Jazz and Film Narration presents selected examples covering the time period of fifty years as a testimony that the film makers of various poetics have always recognised these precious properties of jazz.
MILEN ALEMPIJEVIĆ
MILEN ALEMPIJEVIĆ (1965), a writer, author of a dozen of books of various genres. The author of the book of essays on animated film “Umetnost preterivanja: Beleške jednog gledaoca” (The Art of Exaggeration: Notes of a Viewer, Ludibundus, 2014). He has given the multi-media lecture entitled “Džez i animirani film” (Jazz and Animated Film) at several European international festivals of animation. He prepared the double-issue 183-184 of the magazine for art and culture Gradac dedicated to jazz (2012). Milen writes about film, jazz and animation for dailies and periodicals from the field of culture. He works at the Cultural Centre in Čačak as a Film and Video Programme Edotiro and as the Artistic Director of the International Animation Festival ANIMANIMA.