Transforming Socialist Festival: Cultural, Economic, and Institutional History of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival after 1989
Public support
Provider
Czech Science Foundation
Programme
Standard projects
Call for proposals
SGA0202600001
Main participants
Akademie múzických umění v Praze / Filmová a televizní fakulta
Contest type
VS - Public tender
Contract ID
26-23550S
Alternative language
Project name in Czech
Transforming Socialist Festival: Cultural, Economic, and Institutional History of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival after 1989
Annotation in Czech
The interdisciplinary and methodologically innovative project explores transformation of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival after 1989. Following Applicant’s research on transnational history of the KVIFF prior 1989, it connects two dynamic fields of cinema studies and modern history–the study of festivals in Eastern Europe and of post-communist transformation. Encompassing cinema historiography, cultural memory, history of institutions, organization, economic history, and urban studies, the project proposes multilevel research of a prominent socialist cultural institution under new market and political conditions, in the framework of “long transformation”. While previous research emphasized political, economic, and social dimensions of transformation, the project shifts focus to the understudied area of culture. By applying historical methods on post-socialist festival, it promises to fill in a major gap in festival studies, historiography of post-1989 Czech cinema culture, and to break new grounds in studies of transformation in Central Eastern Europe and post-socialism.
Scientific branches
R&D category
ZV - Basic research
OECD FORD - main branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
OECD FORD - secondary branch
60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
OECD FORD - another secondary branch
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CEP - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)
AB - History<br>AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage
Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
Jan 1, 2026
Realization period - end
Dec 31, 2028
Project status
Z - Beginning multi-year project
Latest support payment
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Data delivery to CEP
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data delivery code
CEP26-GA0-GA-R
Data delivery date
Apr 27, 2026
Finance
Total approved costs
5,560 thou. CZK
Public financial support
5,560 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
0 thou. CZK