Going to the Cinema as a Czech : Preferences and Practices of Czech Cinemagoers in the Occupied City of Brno, 1939–1945
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F19%3A00107467" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/19:00107467 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/40467" target="_blank" >https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/40467</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Going to the Cinema as a Czech : Preferences and Practices of Czech Cinemagoers in the Occupied City of Brno, 1939–1945
Original language description
After the occupation of the Czech lands by Nazi Germany in March 1939, Czechs embraced domestic (and ignored German) movies more vigorously than they had before. This implies that the occupation caused notable changes in the mode of movie reception. After about 1942, however, the popularity of a portion of German production was increasing. This fact raises the question of whether cinemagoers' values and identities were undergoing significant change under the occupation. This paper focuses on Brno, a city with a long history of coexistence and rivalry between those who identified as Germans and as Czechs. I argue that watching a Czech movie became one of the behaviors that defined the Czech national identity. The later embrace of German entertainment by Czechs was accompanied by two strategies that redeemed watching the desired cinematic distraction from being an un-Czech behavior: by indexing the movies as not fully German due to the presence of non-German stars, and by a parallel redefinition of cinemagoers' Czech behavior from choosing Czech movies to choosing cinemas identified as non-German. These strategies represent culturally specific reactions by Czech audiences living in a nationally divided city to the distribution and exhibition practices applied during the occupation.
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
<a href="/en/project/GA16-13375S" target="_blank" >GA16-13375S: Czech Cinema Culture and the German Occupation: A Research on Cultural Transfers</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Film History
ISSN
0892-2160
e-ISSN
1553-3905
Volume of the periodical
31
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
29
Pages from-to
27-55
UT code for WoS article
000469286000002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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