Making Decisions : Occupied Film Industries from the
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Making Decisions : Occupied Film Industries from the Perspective of "Middle-Men"

SKOPAL, Pavel a Roel VANDE WINKEL

Základní údaje

Originální název

Making Decisions : Occupied Film Industries from the Perspective of "Middle-Men"

Autoři

SKOPAL, Pavel (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí) a Roel VANDE WINKEL (56 Belgie)

Vydání

Cham, Film Professionals in Nazi-Occupied Europe. Mediation Between the National-Socialist Cultural "New Order" and Local Structures, od s. 1-17, 17 s. European Cinema and TV, 2021

Nakladatel

Palgrave Macmillan

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

60405 Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119200

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

ISBN

978-3-030-61633-5

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61634-2_1

Klíčová slova anglicky

Nazi Germany; Third-Reich cinema; Ufa; collaboration; agency; historiography; cultural history; Second World War

Štítky

rivok, topvydavatel

Změněno: 10. 5. 2022 13:53, Mgr. et Mgr. Lucie Racyn

Anotace

V originále

During the Second World War, Germany’s initial military successes and the vast territories the Wehrmacht invaded and occupied, allowed the German film industry to dominate substantial parts of the European market. Many (but certainly not all) academic studies of those European film industries that were controlled or significantly re-shaped by Nazi Germany (1939-1945) tend to provide rather general, descriptive overviews that reconstruct cultural policy and cinema infrastructure. There is much to be said for such an approach, because this type of top-down analysis is often necessary to understand larger processes. Nevertheless, a bird’s eye view on film and cultural policy also has its limitations, as it leaves little room for analytical insights into the dynamics of specific changes that happened during WWII. This text argues that historians can counterbalance that perspective by analysing the evolving strategies and practices used by individuals, who had – or believed they had – a certain capacity or autonomy to influence the cinema industry in occupied territories and who mediated between the agenda of the ‘Third Reich’ cinema apparatus and the film industry of their own region or country. After the retreat of the German troops and liberation from Nazism in 1944-1945, European film sectors repaired or reorganised themselves. Although some of the measures introduced by the Germans were tacitly retained (because it was politically sensitive to recognise their value openly), many others were rescinded or undone. Investigations were launched into people who could be held ‘responsible’ for the crimes of the previous years: compatriots who had ‘collaborated’ with the Germans during the occupation and who had facilitated the implementation of German film policy. Some of them were prosecuted and punished: sometimes by the courts, sometimes also more indirectly by trade unions or similar bodies. These investigations into ‘collaborators’ and subsequent trials left behind a trail of documents. Some of these archival sources have been available for decades, others were only released or declassified more recently. Such sources are of crucial importance for research that focuses on the centre: on members of the civil society in German-occupied territories, who seized, or at least accepted the opportunity to play a significant role in a film sector that was now German-controlled (local ‘captains of industry’, cinema managers, people working for film studios, or officials authorized to navigate film policy).

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 a Roel VANDE WINKEL. Making Decisions : Occupied Film Industries from the Perspective of "Middle-Men". In Skopal, Pavel; Vande Winkel, Roel. Film Professionals in Nazi-Occupied Europe. Mediation Between the National-Socialist Cultural "New Order" and Local Structures. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, s. 1-17. European Cinema and TV. ISBN 978-3-030-61633-5. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61634-2_1.

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