Occupation, Abrupt Changes, and Taste Distinctions in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Implications of Researching on Movies/Theatres´ Boycott
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Occupation, Abrupt Changes, and Taste Distinctions in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Implications of Researching on Movies/Theatres´ Boycott
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.
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
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>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů