Suffer for the Fame: Jiřina Štěpničková and Czech Female Film Stars 1930-1945
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The presentation begins to shed much needed new scholarly light on this key aspect of the nation's film culture by way of a case study of the Czech star Jiřina Štěpničková in the period 1930-1945. This specific Czech actress whose stardom was articulated in terms of national and artistic discourses embodied key parts in films considered as classical in Czech cinema history. I adapt concepts developed in the study of Hollywood stardom to argue that, during the period, Czech film stardom was intimately bound up with conceptions of stardom related to nineteenth-century Czech theatre. |