1 option
Czech new wave filmmakers in interviews / Robert Buchar ; foreword by Antonín J. Liehm.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.C89 B83 2004
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchar, Robert, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Czech Republic.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Czech Republic--Interviews.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Czech Republic.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2004]
- Summary:
- In Czechoslovakia, in the 1960s, artists began to realize that the aesthetics of social realism denied the realities of daily life. In the film world, a new movement arose in response. This work collects candid interviews with the creators of the Czech New Wave film movement. Their work put Czech film on the map of world cinema, generating two Oscars for Best Foreign Film, but officials marked them as decadent and reactionary. The work contains sixteen uncensored interviews with filmmakers who describe the struggle to realize their visions in a constantly shifting political landscape: from the mid-1960s, through the repressive "Normalization" after the Soviet occupation in 1968 (more films were banned in 1970 than during the previous twenty years of Communism), and after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. These artists reveal their search for individual and national identity, describe living and making films in the Czech Republic now and in the past, explore the influence of foreign films, and speculate on the future of film. Each interview includes a short biography, filmography, and list of awards.
- Contents:
- Antonin Masa 15
- Jan Nemec 24
- Sasa Gedeon 31
- Jiri Menzel 38
- Vera Chytilova 51
- Jiri Krejcik 73
- Jaroslav Boucek 87
- Jaroslav Brabec 93
- Jan Sverak 99
- Zuzana Zemanova 108
- Alois Fisarek 112
- Otakar Vavra 115
- Drahomira Vihanova 125
- Ivan Passer 144
- Karel Vachek 151
- Stanislav Milota 160
- The Velvet Revolution and Beyond 180.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 211) and index.
- ISBN:
- 078641720X
- OCLC:
- 52921739
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.