Commodifying Postsocialist Cinema. Filmmakers and the Privatization of the Polish and Czech Film Industry after 1989

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2022.2044617" target="_blank" >10.1080/25739638.2022.2044617</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Commodifying Postsocialist Cinema. Filmmakers and the Privatization of the Polish and Czech Film Industry after 1989

Original language description

The state’s efforts at privatization after the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe often met with disapproval from cultural producers, who worried that their form of cultural production (often understood by them as „art” rather than „commodity”) required state patronage to survive. This paper examines the case of cinema in the Czech Republic and Poland. Using contemporary press sources, it traces how filmmakers responded to the new prominence of commercial cinema and their often-perceived loss of prestige and status of “autonomous artists”. Both the creative outputs and the discourse of filmmakers illustrate the changing values attached to the free market and to the purpose of cultural production in a market economy during transformation. Following a generational story, the paper establishes similarities between the discourse of different age groups of filmmakers in both countries. But at the same time, it accounts for the diverging acceptance of marketization by outlining country-specific differences: filmmakers searched for a language to critique or to affirm the transformation, their stance largely dependent on the extent to which they worked with inherited modes from the late socialist era, specific cultural traditions, and the financial conditions in which they operated.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe

ISSN

2573-9638

e-ISSN

2573-9646

Volume of the periodical

30

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

11-26

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85125901416