Risk and Trust in State-Socialist Co-Production Practice.
DEFA-Barrandov Collaborations of 1970s and 1980s

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Risk and Trust in State-Socialist Co-Production Practice. DEFA-Barrandov Collaborations of 1970s and 1980s

SKOPAL, Pavel

Základní údaje

Originální název

Risk and Trust in State-Socialist Co-Production Practice. DEFA-Barrandov Collaborations of 1970s and 1980s

Autoři

SKOPAL, Pavel (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Iluminace : časopis pro teorii, historii a estetiku filmu, Praha, Národní filmový archiv, 2015, 0862-397X

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

Písemnictví, masmedia, audiovize

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/15:00085463

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

co-productions; state socialist cinema; production history; Trust; Risk; Barrandov; DEFA

Štítky

rivok

Změněno: 17. 3. 2016 16:09, Mgr. Vendula Hromádková

Anotace

V originále

The paper draws its attention to the roles risk and faith played in the development of co-production projects between the East German and Czechoslovak film studios, DEFA and Barrandov. While focused on the concepts of risk and trust in the 1970s and 1980s, the conclusions derived from such an analysis promise to be transferable to other international co-productions developed under State-Socialism and potentially even to those of other film industries. The proposed approach allows us not to restrict ourselves to a hierarchical relationship between administrative bodies and subordinate creative personnel though, but rather also to recognize a horizontal axis characterized by business partners and ideological allies. The paper focuses on the period of the 1970s and 1980s, when Barrandov remained attractive to DEFA as a service provider, and Barrandov's management demonstrated greater interest in collaborating with an ideologically “trustworthy” DEFA than during the previous, comparatively liberal, years. Produced by Barrandov's Children's Film Dramaturgical Group and DEFA's Roter Kreis and Berlin, fairytales and children’s films represented the most reliable, commercially successful East-German-Czechoslovak co-productions of the 1970s. They benefited from high levels of shared institutional trust. This trust was rooted in professionalization and the corporate culture of the Children’s Films dramaturgical group at Barrandov, as well as in the personal networks established with partnering DEFA groups. In the 1970s and 1980s, central dramaturgies saw DEFA and Barrandov as politically reliable partners. The credibility of their partnerships, coupled with a comparatively low risk of failure in this sphere of production, stimulated a relatively long and commercially impressive run of films.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1172/2014, interní kód MU

Název: Česká kinematografie a proces kulturního transferu

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Česká kinematografie a proces kulturního transferu, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

SKOPAL, Pavel. Risk and Trust in State-Socialist Co-Production Practice. DEFA-Barrandov Collaborations of 1970s and 1980s. Iluminace : časopis pro teorii, historii a estetiku filmu. Praha: Národní filmový archiv, 2015, roč. 27, č. 3, s. 23-35. ISSN 0862-397X.

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SKOPAL, Pavel. Risk and Trust in State-Socialist Co-Production Practice. DEFA-Barrandov Collaborations of 1970s and 1980s. \textit{Iluminace : časopis pro teorii, historii a estetiku filmu}. Praha: Národní filmový archiv, 2015, roč.~27, č.~3, s.~23-35. ISSN~0862-397X.

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