Could it Happen There? Ingmar Bergman, Postwar Czechoslovakia, and Delayed Distribution
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2021.1873995" target="_blank" >10.1080/15405702.2021.1873995</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Could it Happen There? Ingmar Bergman, Postwar Czechoslovakia, and Delayed Distribution
Original language description
This article analyses the distribution and reception of Ingmar Bergman's films using the example of Czechoslovakia, within the Soviet sphere of influence, during the twenty-five years following World War II. First, it aims to examine the forms of distribution of Bergman's films in Czechoslovakia. The article then shifts to the critical as well as cultural-political reception of two particular films: High Tension (1950) and The Silence (1963). Bergman had an ambivalent reputation in socialist Czechoslovakia, and this article seeks to examine the specific nature of this local discourse. Bergman's cinema entered Czechoslovakia slowly. Screenings of his films were regularly delayed, emerging, when they did, both long after the Swedish premieres and those of other foreign states. This established a tendency I call "delayed distribution". This practice, comprising different variations, reflected a complex cultural-political context and negotiations encompassing strict distribution approval processes, contractual obligations, and one-time festival screenings. The interplay of these aspects lead to a level of unpredictability and, at times, surprising distribution solutions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Popular Communication
ISSN
1540-5702
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
19
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
125-139
UT code for WoS article
000613776100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85099834297