The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism. This book explores the avant-garde's influence over the New Wave and considers the political implications of that influence. The close analysis of selected films, ranging from the Oscar-winning Closely Observed Trains to the aesthetically challenging Daisies, is contextualized by an account of the Czech avant-garde…mehr
The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism. This book explores the avant-garde's influence over the New Wave and considers the political implications of that influence. The close analysis of selected films, ranging from the Oscar-winning Closely Observed Trains to the aesthetically challenging Daisies, is contextualized by an account of the Czech avant-garde and a discussion of the films' immediate cultural and political background.
Jonathan L. Owen is a Teaching Fellow at the University of St. Andrews. He completed his Ph.D. on Czech cinema at the University of Manchester. His research interests include the European cinema of the 1960s and 1970s and the Czech twentieth-century avant-garde.
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Introduction Chapter 1. Inspirations, Opportunities: Cultural and Historical Contexts Chapter 2. Pavel Jurácek's Josef Kilián (1963) and A Case for the Young Hangman (1969): From the Surreal Object to the Absurd Signifier Chapter 3. Jirí Menzel's Closely Observed Trains (1966): Hrabal and the Heterogeneous Chapter 4. Spoiled Aesthetics: Realism and Anti-Humanism in Vera Chytilová'sDaisies (1966) Chapter 5. Flights From History: Otherness, Politics and Folk Avant-Gardism in Juraj Jakubisko's The Deserter and the Nomads (1968) and Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969) Chapter 6. Back to Utopia: Returns of the Repressed in Jaromil JireS's Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) Chapter 7. Jan svankmajer: Contemporary Czech Surrealism and the Renewal of Language Conclusion Bibliography Index
Introduction Chapter 1. Inspirations, Opportunities: Cultural and Historical Contexts Chapter 2. Pavel Jurácek's Josef Kilián (1963) and A Case for the Young Hangman (1969): From the Surreal Object to the Absurd Signifier Chapter 3. Jirí Menzel's Closely Observed Trains (1966): Hrabal and the Heterogeneous Chapter 4. Spoiled Aesthetics: Realism and Anti-Humanism in Vera Chytilová'sDaisies (1966) Chapter 5. Flights From History: Otherness, Politics and Folk Avant-Gardism in Juraj Jakubisko's The Deserter and the Nomads (1968) and Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969) Chapter 6. Back to Utopia: Returns of the Repressed in Jaromil JireS's Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) Chapter 7. Jan svankmajer: Contemporary Czech Surrealism and the Renewal of Language Conclusion Bibliography Index
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