Hollywood in disguise. Practices of exhibition and reception of foreign films in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s.

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F11%3A00050598" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/11:00050598 - isvavai.cz</a>

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Hollywood in disguise. Practices of exhibition and reception of foreign films in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s.

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This chapter focuses on the ways in which foreign sound films were distributed, shown and received in Prague between 1929 and 1939. Comparing the popularity of Czechoslovak, American and German productions on the local market, it presents a list of eachyear?s top-ten hits, and draws conclusions about the short- and longerterm tendencies of local cinemagoing preferences. The chapter asks why the English language and American culture were considered to be disturbing elements by local audiences. What madeGerman films not only more popular than American ones, but also more popular than German versions of American films? Was it the German language, which was more comprehensible to the local public than English, or the archetypes of German-Austrian popularculture represented in these films? How can we explain the extreme but short-term popularity of American talkies in the first year that they were shown in Prague, and their sharp decline in popularity in the following years? What kind of

Název v anglickém jazyce

Hollywood in disguise. Practices of exhibition and reception of foreign films in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s.

Popis výsledku anglicky

This chapter focuses on the ways in which foreign sound films were distributed, shown and received in Prague between 1929 and 1939. Comparing the popularity of Czechoslovak, American and German productions on the local market, it presents a list of eachyear?s top-ten hits, and draws conclusions about the short- and longerterm tendencies of local cinemagoing preferences. The chapter asks why the English language and American culture were considered to be disturbing elements by local audiences. What madeGerman films not only more popular than American ones, but also more popular than German versions of American films? Was it the German language, which was more comprehensible to the local public than English, or the archetypes of German-Austrian popularculture represented in these films? How can we explain the extreme but short-term popularity of American talkies in the first year that they were shown in Prague, and their sharp decline in popularity in the following years? What kind of

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

AL - Umění, architektura, kulturní dědictví

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GP408%2F03%2FD174" target="_blank" >GP408/03/D174: Kulturněhistorické kontexty zavedení synchronního reprodukovaného zvuku v české kinematografii</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2011

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Cinema, Audiences and Modernity. New Perspectives on European Cinema History

ISBN

978-0-415-67278-8

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

166-186

Počet stran knihy

214

Název nakladatele

Routledge. Eds. Daniel Biltereyst ? Richard Maltby ? Philippe Meers

Místo vydání

London ? New York

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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