Reel by reel : Jan Stanislav Kolár's poetics in the context of transition to feature-length format in Czech silent cinema

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/10.1386/josc_00004_1" target="_blank" >10.1386/josc_00004_1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reel by reel : Jan Stanislav Kolár's poetics in the context of transition to feature-length format in Czech silent cinema

Original language description

This article examines the screenwriting practice in Czech silent cinema in the late 1910s and 1920s. It focuses on Jan Stanislav Kolár’s narrative poetics as a case study of specific storytelling choices within the transitional era from one- or tworeelers to the feature-length format in the context of local technological restrictions in exhibition – inevitable breaks of changing film reels in single-projector cinemas. Poetological analysis of Kolár’s Řina (1926) with his other surviving scenarios and pictures shows that meant not only the necessity of adapting to these limitations, but also became a productive way of achieving particular effects on the audience. Semi-independent narrative acts, thrilling moments occurring at the end of the reel, or significant shifts in space and time between two reels were integral parts of his own original stories as well as adaptations of various novels. Nevertheless, the article outlines more general perspective in relation to film reels as structural narrative units and screenwriting practice among Czech filmmakers as well.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Screenwriting

ISSN

1759-7137

e-ISSN

1759-7145

Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

279-294

UT code for WoS article

000498877400004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85075467517