Faculty of Philology
Biography - Koprivica Zoran
BIOGRAPHY
Ph.D. Zoran Koprivica graduated at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niksic, Montenegro. At the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade in "The dramaturgical problems of film adaptations of Shakespeare's Hamlet", earned a master’s degree in the science of dramatic arts. At the same faculty in " The director's poetics of Zivko Nikolic", obtained a Ph.D. in the science of dramatic arts. Author of three shorts and one documentary. A participant of conferences, seminars and symposia on topics in the fields of filmology, theater and mediology. A member of festival juries, reviewer, writer of prefaces, keynote speaker at the first run movies. The scientific works on film history, aesthetics of film and film theory publishes mainly in international journals and magazines. He is employed at the University of Montenegro, the Faculty of Drama Arts in Cetinje, as the assistant professor for the subjects: Film history, Film theory, Aesthetics of audiovisual media, and at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niksic for subjects: Film and literature and Audiovisual culture. Major reference works: Hamlet – the possibilities of film transposition (2004); The audiovisual synthesis of dramatic and diegetic (2005); The Master’s diabolic chimeras: La danse diable in Aleksandar Petrovic’s movie Master and Margarita (2005); The system of division and subdivision in Hollywood production of the silent era (2006); Hamlet as a "souvenir" of silent movie actors (2006); Music and Eros as dramaturgical frames in Jane Campion's movie The Piano; The Morality of the Media (2007); The grotesque ex-combatants in Mica Popovic’s movie Delije (2009); The women’s film in Hollywood (2010); Shakespeare and film dramaturgy - the comparative analysis (Henry V, Richard III, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Chimes at Midnight) (2010-2012); The film adaptation of Scepanovic’s novella The Death of Mr. Goluza – the diegetic, structural and semantic code (2011); Hamlet: The comparative analysis of Olivier’s, Kozintsev’s and Branagh’s film adaptations (2011); The theme of ruling oligarchy in Nikolic’s movie In the Name of the People (2010); The atypical narrative and thematic structures in Aleksandar Petrovic’s documentaries We’re fighting side by side and War against war (2011); Animated film between visual art and cine-aesthetics (2012); Socio-psychological aspect of Zivko Nikolic's poetics (2012); Motion as ontological constant of animated film (2012); Star system under the terms of classical Hollywood production (2012); Prolegomena for film adaptation of classics, or: How to adapt Shakespeare? (2012); Hollywood between myth and reality (2012); Searching for truth: philosophical, ethical and deontological aspects of Zivko Nikolic's poetics (2013); The models of social distinguishing in Nikolic’s movies Ine (Others) and Graditelj (The Buider) (2013); Film figures in Nikolic's documentary Zdrijelo (The Gorge) (2013).