Hollywood in disguise. Practices of exhibition and reception of foreign films in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s.
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Hollywood in disguise. Practices of exhibition and reception of foreign films in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s.
Original language description
This chapter focuses on the ways in which foreign sound films were distributed, shown and received in Prague between 1929 and 1939. Comparing the popularity of Czechoslovak, American and German productions on the local market, it presents a list of eachyear?s top-ten hits, and draws conclusions about the short- and longerterm tendencies of local cinemagoing preferences. The chapter asks why the English language and American culture were considered to be disturbing elements by local audiences. What madeGerman films not only more popular than American ones, but also more popular than German versions of American films? Was it the German language, which was more comprehensible to the local public than English, or the archetypes of German-Austrian popularculture represented in these films? How can we explain the extreme but short-term popularity of American talkies in the first year that they were shown in Prague, and their sharp decline in popularity in the following years? What kind of
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GP408%2F03%2FD174" target="_blank" >GP408/03/D174: Cultural-historical context of transition to recorded synchronous sound in Czech cinema</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Cinema, Audiences and Modernity. New Perspectives on European Cinema History
ISBN
978-0-415-67278-8
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
166-186
Number of pages of the book
214
Publisher name
Routledge. Eds. Daniel Biltereyst ? Richard Maltby ? Philippe Meers
Place of publication
London ? New York
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