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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lovejoy, Alice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.

Experimental films.

Documentary films--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.

Documentary films.

Československý armádní film.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 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

Contents:

Introduction

A deep and fruitful tradition: Jiří Jeníček, the Film Group, and cinema

Culture of the 1930's

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:

Issued with a DVD featuring 13 short films produced by the Czechoslovak Ministry of Defense.

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Yale University, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253014931

025301493X

OCLC:

902847026