Too many hands : a bureaucratic screenwriting for the Czech silent national epic Svatý Václav (St. Wenceslas) (1930)

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/10.1080/2040350X.2021.1889771" target="_blank" >10.1080/2040350X.2021.1889771</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Too many hands : a bureaucratic screenwriting for the Czech silent national epic Svatý Václav (St. Wenceslas) (1930)

Original language description

This article examines the Czech screenwriting practice vis-a-vis state-subsidised cinema. It focuses on the silent national epic drama St. Wenceslas (Svatý Václav, 1930) and sheds light on the forms of bureaucratic interventions throughout the formalised writing process. Drawing on Ian W. Macdonald’s concepts of screen idea and screen idea work group, the paper seeks to explain a collective dynamic and deals with the official historiography issue. I argue that academics had frequently altered the screen idea to suit their historical interpretation. Since this was enabled by their prominence in the collective, the article examines the hierarchy of power in the decision-making process and the forms of collaboration, competition and negotiation. In so doing, it helps us to rethink the screenwriting practice by explaining the functions of the screenwriting contest jury and the impact of supervisory voices delineating textual boundaries. The outlined screenwriters’ solutions then illustrate both the creativity in telling the well-known story within the limits and the pragmatic decrease in artistic ambitions.

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

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Studies in Eastern European Cinema

ISSN

2040-350X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

121-135

UT code for WoS article

000777756500003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85101880401