Chapter 2 Czechoslovak Culture and Cinema, 1945–1960

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Figures viii
5. List of Abbreviations ix
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I Cultural Policy and Cinema
8. Chapter 1 From Soviet Zone to Volksdemokratie: The Politics of Film Culture in the GDR, 1945–1960 15
9. Chapter 2 Czechoslovak Culture and Cinema, 1945–1960 39
10. Part II Production and Co-production
11. Chapter 3 ‘Veterans’ and ‘Dilettantes’ Film Production Culture vis-à-vis Top- Down Political Changes, 1945–1962 71
12. Chapter 4 Barrandov’s Co-productions: The Clumsy Way to Ideological Control, International Competitiveness and Technological Improvement 89
13. Chapter 5 Co-productions (Un)Wanted: 1950s East/West German Film Collaborations and the Impact of Sovietization on DEFA’s Prestige Agenda 107
14. Chapter 6 No TV without Film: Production Relations between the DEFA Studios and Deutscher Fernsehfunk 125
15. Part III Nonfictional Cinema
16. Chapter 7 Military Film Studios before 1970 Between Cinematic Avant-Garde and Films on Command 145
17. Chapter 8 Socialism for Sale: Czechoslovakia’s Krátký film, Custom- Made Film Production and the Promotion of Consumer Culture in the 1950s 166
18. Part IV Children’s Cinema
19. Chapter 9 Between Magic and Education: The First Fairy Tale Films in the GDR 189
20. Chapter 10 Children’s Films: Between Education, Art and Industry 205
21. Part V Film Festivals
22. Chapter 11 Decreed Open-Mindedness: The Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Festival in the 1960s as an Example of the Self- Representation of the East German State 229
23. Chapter 12 National, Socialist, Global: The Changing Roles of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 1946–1956 245
24. Part VI Distribution and Reception
25. Chapter 13 Cinema Cultures of Integration: Film Distribution and Exhibition in the GDR and Czechoslovakia from the Perspective of Two Local Cases, 1945–1960 275
26. Chapter 14 A Decade between Resistance and Adaptation: The Leipzig University Film Club (1956–1966) 315
27. Chapter 15 Screening the Occupier as Liberator: Soviet War Films in the SBZ and the GDR, 1945–1965 341
28. Filmography 381
29. Index 391