Copyright, Credits, and Write-for-Hire Creativity : Authorship and Authority in Czech Silent Screenwriting
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F25%3A00142761" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/25:00142761 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://iluminace.cz/pdfs/ilu/2025/02/05.pdf" target="_blank" >https://iluminace.cz/pdfs/ilu/2025/02/05.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.58193/ilu.1811" target="_blank" >10.58193/ilu.1811</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Copyright, Credits, and Write-for-Hire Creativity : Authorship and Authority in Czech Silent Screenwriting
Original language description
This article examines the professional status and creative labor of screenwriters in Czech silent cinema, using the 1926 adaptation of Ignát Herrmann’s novel, Father Kondelík and Bridegroom Vejvara, as a case study. Drawing on Jonathan Gray’s and Matt Stahl’s concepts, the research analyzes how work-for-hire practices and copyright defined creative control and artistic recognition, examining authorship and authority within regional “authorial clusters.” The article reveals screenwriters’ working conditions and their innovative contributions to cinematic storytelling and style under the constraints of corporate and contractual forces. In so doing, it uncovers overlooked work patterns and professional challenges faced by silent-era screenwriters, contributing new perspectives to regional screenwriting studies on authorship and creative labor in unique industrial contexts.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS 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
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
ILUMINACE : ČASOPIS PRO TEORII, HISTORII A ESTETIKU FILMU
ISSN
0862-397X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
37
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
31-52
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105024108956