Description
Book SynopsisDuring the 1968 Prague Spring and the Soviet-led invasion and occupation that followed, Czechoslovakia's Army Film studio was responsible for some of the most politically subversive and aesthetically innovative films of the period. This book examines the institutional and governmental roots of postwar Czechoslovak cinema.
Trade ReviewA fine work of scholarship. . . . Highly recommended.
* Choice *
Much like the subversive moving images she chronicles in Army Film and the Avant Garde, her work itself upends and complicates received wisdom what we think we know about government-sponsored film and Eastern European cinema—rescuing the untold story of Army Films from the dustbin of history and deftly rewriting film scholarship in the process. Summer 2015
* Film Quarterly *
[A] well-researched, analytically perceptive, and engagingly written book.
* Slavic Review *
Table of ContentsAknowledgements
Note on Translation
Introduction
1. A Deep and Fruitful Tradition: Jiří Jeníček, The Film Group, and Cinema Culture of the 1930s
2. All of Film is an Experiment: Postwar Documentary, Postwar Reconstruction
3. The Crooked Mirror: Pedagogy and Art in Army Instructional Films
4. Every Young Man: Reinventing Army Film
5. A Military Avant Garde: Documentary and the Prague Spring
Coda
Appendix: Companion DVD Contents
Filmography
Notes
Bibliography
Index
