The Pragmatic Alliance of DEFA and Barrandov : Cultural Transfer, Popular Cinema and Czechoslovak-East German Co-productions, 1957–85
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2017.1285151" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2017.1285151</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2017.1285151" target="_blank" >10.1080/01439685.2017.1285151</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Pragmatic Alliance of DEFA and Barrandov : Cultural Transfer, Popular Cinema and Czechoslovak-East German Co-productions, 1957–85
Original language description
This article examines the cooperation that took place between the East German DEFA and Czechoslovakia’s Barrandov film studios, in terms of their coproductions and the recruitment of Czechoslovak talent to work on nominally East German productions. By analysing these ventures from their inception in 1957 onwards, I consider the conditions supervising the transfer of professional skills between the studios, especially during periods of intensive exchange: the mid-1960s and the 1970s. I argue that DEFA utilized Barrandov-contracted talent to facilitate its production of commercially viable light entertainment. In the 1960s, ‘travelling filmmakers’ helped DEFA to launch a series of East German-produced musicals and Indianerfilme. In the 1970s, DEFA functionaries aimed to benefit from the creative input Czechoslovak scriptwriters, directors and producers brought to children’s films. I suggest the two periods in question were shaped by distinct sets of institutional, political and creative circumstances. The recruitment of individual Czechoslovak personnel in the earlier period enabled DEFA to train in-house talent. A decade later, purges enacted by the Czechoslovak Communist Party limited creative possibilities for this country’s film-makers, incentivizing a newfound desire to partner with a studio that Barrandov had previously deemed beneath it.
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
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
ISSN
0143-9685
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
38
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
133-146
UT code for WoS article
000424194800007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85013054771