Ambitious ‘Alien’ Beats Perestroika : Pražská 5 (1988), Home Video, and Producing Politically Subversive Cinema at Barrandov in the 1980s

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Ambitious ‘Alien’ Beats Perestroika : Pražská 5 (1988), Home Video, and Producing Politically Subversive Cinema at Barrandov in the 1980s

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The 1988 Barrandov-produced The Prague Five (Pražská 5) – a featurelength compilation of five short films – depicted a visibly drunk communist bureaucrat next to a gradually withering carnation, the most socialist of all flowers, lecturing people on the importance of progressive art and the need to incorporate young artists into socialist culture. His speech interconnected the five shorts that experiment with subject matter, form, style, and genre, and presented the poetics of five theatrical troupes that were amongst the most progressive on the 1980s Prague alternative scene. Each segment was quite distinctive: they included modern dance, a conceptual play of color, and a parody of 1950s Stalinist dramas. Together they offered an absurdist mosaic of performance art, a mockery of the parameters of socialist realism, and an unusually pointed criticism of state-socialist society. After its release in June 1989, The Prague Five (dir. Tomáš Vorel) quickly gained cult status as a film openly treating the communist regime ironically. In line with existing scholarship on Czechoslovak cinema of the 1980s, it might be tempting to posit the impact of glasnost and perestroika as explanatory frameworks for the presence of such material on the cultural landscape of socialist Czechoslovakia.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Ambitious ‘Alien’ Beats Perestroika : Pražská 5 (1988), Home Video, and Producing Politically Subversive Cinema at Barrandov in the 1980s

Popis výsledku anglicky

The 1988 Barrandov-produced The Prague Five (Pražská 5) – a featurelength compilation of five short films – depicted a visibly drunk communist bureaucrat next to a gradually withering carnation, the most socialist of all flowers, lecturing people on the importance of progressive art and the need to incorporate young artists into socialist culture. His speech interconnected the five shorts that experiment with subject matter, form, style, and genre, and presented the poetics of five theatrical troupes that were amongst the most progressive on the 1980s Prague alternative scene. Each segment was quite distinctive: they included modern dance, a conceptual play of color, and a parody of 1950s Stalinist dramas. Together they offered an absurdist mosaic of performance art, a mockery of the parameters of socialist realism, and an unusually pointed criticism of state-socialist society. After its release in June 1989, The Prague Five (dir. Tomáš Vorel) quickly gained cult status as a film openly treating the communist regime ironically. In line with existing scholarship on Czechoslovak cinema of the 1980s, it might be tempting to posit the impact of glasnost and perestroika as explanatory frameworks for the presence of such material on the cultural landscape of socialist Czechoslovakia.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

The Barrandov Studios. A Central European Hollywood

ISBN

9789462989450

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

193-216

Počet stran knihy

366

Název nakladatele

Amsterdam University Press

Místo vydání

Amsterdam

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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