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@misc{1404285, author = {Skopal, Pavel}, booktitle = {Havighurst Center Lecture, Miami University, 27.3.2017, Oxford}, keywords = {co-productions; transnational cinema; Barrandov}, language = {eng}, title = {Risky Business? Czechoslovak Film Industry and International Co-productions}, url = {http://miamioh.edu/events/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D217289925}, year = {2017} }
TY - SLIDE ID - 1404285 AU - Skopal, Pavel PY - 2017 TI - Risky Business? Czechoslovak Film Industry and International Co-productions KW - co-productions KW - transnational cinema KW - Barrandov UR - http://miamioh.edu/events/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D217289925 N2 - To make international film co-productions is always a “risky business” demanding an investment of trust from all of the involved partners. A plenty of agents with very divergent motivations needs to find a consensus. It is especially the complexity and inconsistency of the agents´ goals what make the state-socialist co-productions such a specific mode of practice: governmental bodies, communist party functionaries, heads of the state industry, private producers, chiefs of creative units, dramaturges, directors, distributors – all these agents followed their own interests, made pragmatic alliances, invested trust into partners, and risked their political or artistic careers, money, prestige, and sometimes even personal freedom, to implement a project. The talk will focus on examples of viable and successful partnership of a state-socialist film studio with producers from both sides of the Iron Curtain, and will contrast these cases of success, which were based on mutual trust, with opportunistic, short-lived partnerships. As case studies will be used, among others, Three Nuts for Cinderella, Pan Tau, or Firemen´s Ball. The examples should help us to understand what made the distinction between productive, future-oriented partnership, on one side, and opportunistic “game without iteration”, on the other side. ER -
SKOPAL, Pavel. Risky Business? Czechoslovak Film Industry and International Co-productions. In \textit{Havighurst Center Lecture, Miami University, 27.3.2017, Oxford}. 2017.
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