Occupation, Abrupt Changes, and Taste Distinctions in the
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Implications of
Researching on Movies/Theatres´ Boycott

k 2019

Occupation, Abrupt Changes, and Taste Distinctions in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Implications of Researching on Movies/Theatres´ Boycott

SKOPAL, Pavel

Základní údaje

Originální název

Occupation, Abrupt Changes, and Taste Distinctions in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Implications of Researching on Movies/Theatres´ Boycott

Autoři

SKOPAL, Pavel

Vydání

Methods of Historical Film Audience Research, 25.–26. 04. 2019, German Historical Institute Warsaw, 2019

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60405 Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Stát vydavatele

Polsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00107479

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

cinema reception; cinema history; audience studies; cinema and war

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 19. 2. 2020 19:55, Mgr. Zuzana Matulíková

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

Citovat

SKOPAL, Pavel. Occupation, Abrupt Changes, and Taste Distinctions in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Implications of Researching on Movies/Theatres´ Boycott. In Methods of Historical Film Audience Research, 25.–26. 04. 2019, German Historical Institute Warsaw. 2019.

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SKOPAL, Pavel. Occupation, Abrupt Changes, and Taste Distinctions in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Implications of Researching on Movies/Theatres´ Boycott. In \textit{Methods of Historical Film Audience Research, 25.–26. 04. 2019, German Historical Institute Warsaw}. 2019.

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