1. Academic Profile of Prof. Krešimir Mikić and Ana Markotić
Born and educated in Samobor, Croatia, where he founded the pioneering amateur film club Fag Enthusia Planck (Filmska autorska grupa), Prof. Krešimir Mikić graduated in Film and Television Cinematography from the Academy of Dramatic Art (ADU), University of Zagreb. Throughout his career at the Faculty of Teacher Education (Učiteljski fakultet, Savska 77, Zagreb) and ADU, he authored four foundational books that shaped Croatian film and media pedagogy: Uvod u kino-amaterizam (Introduction to Amateur Filmmaking, 1983), Uvod u video tehniku i stvaralaštvo (Introduction to Video Technology and Creativity, 1990), Film u nastavi medijske kulture (Film in Media Culture Teaching, Educa, 2001), and the textbook series Medijska kultura 5-8 (Školska knjiga).
Working alongside co-author and researcher Ana Markotić (graduate of the Faculty of Teacher Education, postgraduate researcher at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, and secretary of the Mediji association), Prof. Mikić launched kresimirmikic.com in 2009 as an open-access university resource. In 2012, the portal received the prestigious Vidi Web Top 100 Award as one of the Top 10 Croatian websites in Science, Education, and Culture.
2. Wikipedia-Cited Treatises Preserved in Full
- Media, Upbringing and Education (Mediji, odgoj i obrazovanje,
/?p=175): Cited on Croatian Wikipedia (Medijska pismenost). Proposes the dedicated school curriculum subject Medijska kultura - medij i umjetnost pokretnih slika, honors the 1960s legacy of Prof. Dr. Sc. Stjepko Težak, synthesizes the six functions of mass media (Joseph Klapper & Tena Martinić), and presents the 2015 empirical survey conducted across primary schools in Zagreb, Samobor, Šibenik, and Vinkovci. - History of Film & The Sound Film Revolution (Povijest filma,
/?page_id=2864&/povijest-filma-3/): Cited on Serbian Wikipedia (Звучни филм / Zvučni film). Traces moving-image history from Leonardo da Vinci's 1521 camera obscura notes and Giambattista della Porta through Lumière, Méliès, the Brighton School, D. W. Griffith, German Expressionism, Soviet Montage, and the 1927 Warner Bros. transition to sound cinema with Alan Crosland's The Jazz Singer (Pjevač jazza), including the rapid conversion of 20,500 US theaters by 1929, optical sound-on-film recording, language barriers vs. silent-era subtitling (titlovanje), and Rudolf Arnheim's Film as Art (1932).
3. Core Monographs & Curated Film Archive
- History of Color Cinematography: Pathécolor stenciling, hand-tinting, Kinemacolor, Herbert Kalmus's Three-Strip Technicolor, German Agfacolor, Eastmancolor, and Digital Intermediate color grading.
- World Cinematography up to 2000 & Portraits of Cinematographers: Billy Bitzer, Eduard Tisse, Karl Freund, Gregg Toland, Raoul Coutard, Sven Nykvist, Vittorio Storaro, Roger Deakins, and masters of the Croatian school of cinematography.
- Camera Expression & Filmmaking Craft: Shot scales (filmski planovi), frame composition, camera angles (rakursi), camera movements (pan, dolly/tracking, crane, Garrett Brown's Steadicam), optics, lighting, contrast, and film sound.
- Film in the Classroom & Media Pedagogy: Children's developmental comprehension of cinema and lesson methodology.
- Croatian Cinema Showcase (Pogledajte): Analytical anthology of classic Croatian documentary, animated (Zagreb School of Animated Film), and experimental shorts (Crne vode [1956], Moj stan [1962], Igra [1962], Sunt lacrimae rerum [1965], Ljudi s Neretve [1966], Kad te moja čakija ubode [1968], Šije [1970], Tup tup [1972], Recital [1972], Druge [1972]).