Going to the Cinema as a Czech : Preferences and Practices of
Czech Cinemagoers in the Occupied City of Brno, 1939–1945

J 2019

Going to the Cinema as a Czech : Preferences and Practices of Czech Cinemagoers in the Occupied City of Brno, 1939–1945

SKOPAL, Pavel

Základní údaje

Originální název

Going to the Cinema as a Czech : Preferences and Practices of Czech Cinemagoers in the Occupied City of Brno, 1939–1945

Autoři

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

Vydání

Film History, 2019, 0892-2160

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60405 Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00107467

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/FILMHISTORY.31.1.0027

UT WoS

000469286000002

Klíčová slova anglicky

cinemagoing; audiences; Second World War; cinema culture in an occupied society; Nazism; cinema and national identity; Czech cinema

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 6. 1. 2021 19:40, doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

After the occupation of the Czech lands by Nazi Germany in March 1939, Czechs embraced domestic (and ignored German) movies more vigorously than they had before. This implies that the occupation caused notable changes in the mode of movie reception. After about 1942, however, the popularity of a portion of German production was increasing. This fact raises the question of whether cinemagoers' values and identities were undergoing significant change under the occupation. This paper focuses on Brno, a city with a long history of coexistence and rivalry between those who identified as Germans and as Czechs. I argue that watching a Czech movie became one of the behaviors that defined the Czech national identity. The later embrace of German entertainment by Czechs was accompanied by two strategies that redeemed watching the desired cinematic distraction from being an un-Czech behavior: by indexing the movies as not fully German due to the presence of non-German stars, and by a parallel redefinition of cinemagoers' Czech behavior from choosing Czech movies to choosing cinemas identified as non-German. These strategies represent culturally specific reactions by Czech audiences living in a nationally divided city to the distribution and exhibition practices applied during the occupation.

Návaznosti

GA16-13375S, projekt VaV

Název: Česká filmová kultura a německá okupace: procesy kulturního transferu

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Česká filmová kultura a německá okupace: procesy kulturního transferu

Přiložené soubory

Film_History_1_2019_Skopal.pdf

Požádat o autorskou verzi souboru

Citovat

SKOPAL, Pavel. Going to the Cinema as a Czech : Preferences and Practices of Czech Cinemagoers in the Occupied City of Brno, 1939–1945. Film History. 2019, roč. 31, č. 1, s. 27-55. ISSN 0892-2160. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.2979/FILMHISTORY.31.1.0027.

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SKOPAL, Pavel. Going to the Cinema as a Czech : Preferences and Practices of Czech Cinemagoers in the Occupied City of Brno, 1939–1945. \textit{Film History}. 2019, roč.~31, č.~1, s.~27-55. ISSN~0892-2160. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.2979/FILMHISTORY.31.1.0027.

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