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Army film and the avant garde : cinema and experiment in the Czechoslovak military / Alice Lovejoy.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.C9 L68 2015 1 v. + DVD
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lovejoy, Alice.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Experimental films--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
- Experimental films.
- Československý armádní film.
- Documentary films--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
- Documentary films.
- History.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 305 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- During the 1968 Progue 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 propaganda and training films, some notable New Wave directors began their careers there, making films that considerably enrich the history of that movement. Alice Lovejoy examines the institutional and governmental roots of postwar Czechoslovak cinema and provides evidence that links the Army Film studio to Czechoslovakia's art cinema. By tracing the studio's unique institutional dimensions and production culture, Lovejoy explores the ways in which the "military avant garde" engaged with a range of global film practices and cultures. The book includes a DVD featuring 13 short films produced by the Czechoslovak Ministry of Defense. Book jacket.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Yale University, 2009.
- Issued with a DVD featuring 13 short films produced by the Czechoslovak Ministry of Defense.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253014887
- 0253014883
- 9780253014832
- 0253014832
- OCLC:
- 869265192
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