Vypůjčená imaginace. Po stopách distribučních osudů žánrových filmů
| Title in English | Borrowed Imagination. Tracing the Distribution of Genre Movies in Nationalized Film Industries |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Iluminace. Časopis pro teorii, historii a estetiku filmu |
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| Citation | |
| web | http://www.iluminace.cz/JOOMLA/images/stories/obsahy/blazejovsky_3_11.pdf |
| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | socialist countries; genre movies; film distribution |
| Description | The article focuses on the distribution and exhibition of genre movies produced by nationalized film industries during the period of so-called developed socialism. The Czechoslovak chapter is extended with a probe into the practices of the Vesmír cinema in the small industrial village of Zastávka. The best of times for socialist genre movies was during the 1960s, when these national cinemas succeeded in the production of historical epics, red westerns and cloak-and-dagger adventure movies. Socialist genre movies were based on borrowed imagination presenting worlds of fiction very far from everyday life. The share of socialist genre films at the box office declined gradually during the 1970s and 1980s. |