The Cinematic Shapes of the Socialist Modernity Program: Ideological and Economic Parameters of Cinema Distribution in the Czech Lands, 1948-1970

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SKOPAL Pavel

Year of publication 2011
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Cinema, Audiences and Modernity. New Perspectives on European Cinema History
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Mass media, audiovision
Keywords history of cinema; film distribution; cultural policy; socialist modernity; cinema and the communist regime
Description Cinema culture was a prominent place both for implementation and promotion of modernization in its socialistic idiom by the communist regime. The text gives a history of a film distribution model formed by the basic conflict between an ideological concept and an economic criteria and analyses cinema distribution as a tool for promotion of the socialist modernity. The history of cinema distribution approached from that point of view emerge as a place of conflicts, not a fluently working ideological machine.
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