'Poor Guys from the Second Floor'. Art Worlds and Working
Routine in a Czechoslovak Animation Film Studio'

k 2023

'Poor Guys from the Second Floor'. Art Worlds and Working Routine in a Czechoslovak Animation Film Studio'

SKOPAL, Pavel

Basic information

Original name

'Poor Guys from the Second Floor'. Art Worlds and Working Routine in a Czechoslovak Animation Film Studio'

Authors

SKOPAL, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Film Studios : Histories, Evolution, Innovation, Futures, Bristol, 5-7 June 2023, 2023

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Presentations at conferences

Field of Study

60405 Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

References:

Program konference

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/23:00134171

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Animation Film; Film Studios; Production Studies; Social Network Analysis

Abstract

In the original language

This paper presents the results of an ethnographic investigation of the art worlds that coexisted in the studios. Inspired by the sociology of art, particularly Howard S. Becker's concept of the art world and Nick Crossley's application of social networks analysis, the research presents the studios as a space of collaboration, coordination, personal alliances, and career strategies employed by members of the coexisting art worlds. In the absence of an institute that would offer training in animation, they had to learn the conventions of the art primarily by shadowing their experienced colleagues. Due to the studio's long tradition of film production and its location on the cultural periphery, many of the talents were relatives, schoolmates, or friends before they came to the studios. Extensive archival research and dozens of interviews provide insights into the art worlds of shared conventions and to the social worlds formed around the sites of collaborative work. The paper argues that an intensive overlapping between cultural and social referents of the existing subworlds formed a distinctive mode of cooperation between the filmmakers.

Links

GF21-04081K, research and development project

Name: Studia animovaného filmu v Gottwaldově a Lodži (1945/47-1990) - komparativní kolektivní biografie

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Lead Agency

Cite

SKOPAL, Pavel. 'Poor Guys from the Second Floor'. Art Worlds and Working Routine in a Czechoslovak Animation Film Studio'. In Film Studios : Histories, Evolution, Innovation, Futures, Bristol, 5-7 June 2023. 2023.

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SKOPAL, Pavel. 'Poor Guys from the Second Floor'. Art Worlds and Working Routine in a Czechoslovak Animation Film Studio'. In \textit{Film Studios : Histories, Evolution, Innovation, Futures, Bristol, 5-7 June 2023}. 2023.

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