Army film and the avant garde : cinema and experiment in the Czechoslovak military /

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During the 1968 Prague Spring and the Soviet-led invasion and occupation that followed, Czechoslovakia's Army Film studio was responsible for some of the most politically subversive and aesthetically innovative films of the period. Although the studio is remembered primarily as a producer of pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lovejoy, Alice
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Československý armádní film.
Československý armádní film
1900-1999
Experimental films > Czechoslovakia > History > 20th century.
Documentary films > Czechoslovakia > History > 20th century.
Documentaires > Tchécoslovaquie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Documentary films
Experimental films
Czechoslovakia
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A deep and fruitful tradition: Jiří Jeníček, the Film Group, and cinema
  • Culture of the 1930s
  • All of film is an experiment: army documentary, postwar reconstruction, and building socialism
  • The crooked mirror: pedagogy and art in army instructional films
  • Every young man: reinventing army film
  • A military avant garde: documentary and the Prague Spring.

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