BETWEEN NATURE AND CULTURE – ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF THE FILM „NO ONE’S CHILD”
Keywords:
feral child, film, anthropology, nature/culture opposition, No One’s ChildAbstract
The paper analyzes the Serbian feature film „No One’s Child” from 2014. The film tells the story about a feral child, a fascinating trope found in folklore, literature and popular culture. In accordance with the anthropological approach to studying feature films, this movie is viewed as modern myth which express and explore key cultural questions and contradictions in the contemporary society. Through a character of a feral boy raised by wolfs and therefore without „culture” this paper examines how the „No One’s Child” film solves the issue of the nature versus culture opposition.
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