“It is not enough we have lost the war – now we have to watch
it!” Cinemagoers’ attitudes in the Soviet occupation zone of
Germany (a case study from Leipzig)

J 2011

“It is not enough we have lost the war – now we have to watch it!” Cinemagoers’ attitudes in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (a case study from Leipzig)

SKOPAL, Pavel

Základní údaje

Originální název

“It is not enough we have lost the war – now we have to watch it!” Cinemagoers’ attitudes in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (a case study from Leipzig)

Název česky

"Jakoby nestačilo, že jsme prohráli válku - teď se na to musíme ještě dívat!" Postoje návštěvníků kin v sovětské okupační zóně Německa (případová studie Lipska)

Autoři

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

Vydání

Participations. Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 2011, 1749-8716

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

Písemnictví, masmedia, audiovize

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/11:00050342

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

filmová recepce; dějiny filmové distribuce a uvádění; Sovětská okupační zóna; NDR; lokální dějiny filmové kultury

Klíčová slova anglicky

cinema reception; history of film distribution and exhibition; Soviet occupation zone; GDR; local cinema culture

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 11. 4. 2012 08:49, Mgr. Petra Georgala

Anotace

V originále

The immediate post-WWII years represented a period of turbulent change in many European cinema cultures – and for the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany it held true even more than for any other part of Europe. This case study examines both the new distribution system the Soviet occupation power brought to the zone and the reception of Soviet and German movies by German audiences. A collection of reports about the reaction of audiences to the Soviet movies facilitates research into attitudes to Soviet production. These reports are used for the first time for a historical research on cinema reception and give us a unique opportunity to analyse the behaviour and opinions of the post-WWII audiences through the cinemagoer s written statements, their oral expressions written down by the cinema managers, and observations made by employees of the cinemas. The general problem Soviet production (as, in a less extreme form, any other foreign production) faced on the German market was its cultural difference and the already established expectations based on the implicit norms of a “well made movie”. The prevailing evaluation of the Soviet cinema as primitive one and good enough only for children offered a chance to invert the relation between the occupier and the occupied, the custodian and the reformed, and to (re)capture the stand of cultural superiority. Through the study of reception of the Soviet movies, generally less popular as they were, the paper concludes that the enthusiastic reaction to the German production of the Nazi era goes beyond pure escapism towards the movies function as a confirmation of the fundamentally shaken national identity.

Návaznosti

GAP409/11/0586, projekt VaV

Název: Komparativní výzkum filmové kultury ve východním bloku, 1945-1970

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Komparativní výzkum filmové kultury ve východním bloku, 1945-1970

Citovat

SKOPAL, Pavel. “It is not enough we have lost the war – now we have to watch it!” Cinemagoers’ attitudes in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (a case study from Leipzig). Participations. Journal of Audience and Reception Studies. 2011, roč. 8, č. 2, s. 497-521. ISSN 1749-8716.

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SKOPAL, Pavel. “It is not enough we have lost the war – now we have to watch it!” Cinemagoers’ attitudes in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (a case study from Leipzig). \textit{Participations. Journal of Audience and Reception Studies}. 2011, roč. 8, č. 2, s.~497-521. ISSN~1749-8716.

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