Finding a Suitable Home for Video: Video and the State in 1980s Czechoslovakia

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Finding a Suitable Home for Video: Video and the State in 1980s Czechoslovakia

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This essay argues that in the 1980s the Czechoslovak State was invested in appreciating what home video might mean for this country in terms of production, distribution, exhibition, and consumption. Divided into three sections, the essay opens with a consideration of how the State-controlled media initially con- ceptualized video as a scientific invention with enormous potential to enrich socialist society, derived from its relocating media consumption from the home to public arenas. From there, the essay focuses on the production of video content at Barrandov, before concluding with a discussion of the logics underpinning state-controlled distribution of home video. Based on research conducted in State archives and at Barrandov, analyses of the trade and popular press, and interviews conducted with key film industry figures, this essay shows how a new medium was adopted in a State-socialist country. Given the extent to which western scholarly and popular understandings of home video derive from the example of the United States, the essay reveals how a non-American film industry responded to the availability of Hollywood films on video. It also expands the limited attention home video has thus far received in studies of Czechoslovak cinema.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Finding a Suitable Home for Video: Video and the State in 1980s Czechoslovakia

Popis výsledku anglicky

This essay argues that in the 1980s the Czechoslovak State was invested in appreciating what home video might mean for this country in terms of production, distribution, exhibition, and consumption. Divided into three sections, the essay opens with a consideration of how the State-controlled media initially con- ceptualized video as a scientific invention with enormous potential to enrich socialist society, derived from its relocating media consumption from the home to public arenas. From there, the essay focuses on the production of video content at Barrandov, before concluding with a discussion of the logics underpinning state-controlled distribution of home video. Based on research conducted in State archives and at Barrandov, analyses of the trade and popular press, and interviews conducted with key film industry figures, this essay shows how a new medium was adopted in a State-socialist country. Given the extent to which western scholarly and popular understandings of home video derive from the example of the United States, the essay reveals how a non-American film industry responded to the availability of Hollywood films on video. It also expands the limited attention home video has thus far received in studies of Czechoslovak cinema.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60205 - Literary theory

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Post Script

ISSN

0277-9897

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

35

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

67-80

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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