Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Figures 7
4. Acknowledgments 11
5. Introduction: Once upon a (Central European) Time 13
6. I: (Film) History
7. 1. Barrandov and Its Founder, Miloš Havel 43
8. 2. The Concept of Regional Poetics of Cinema 67
9. 3. Barrandov’s First Fifteen Years 105
10. II: Production History
11. 4. Industrial Authorship and Group Style in Czech Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s 131
12. 5. Marcela Pittermannová : Barrandov Dramaturges as Clients, Brokers, and Patrons 169
13. 6. Ambitious ‘Alien’ Beats Perestroika 193
14. III: Individual Directors
15. 7. A Documentarian between Genres 219
16. 8. The Loves of a System: Miloš Forman and Barrandov 251
17. 9. Barrandov and Chytilová 271
18. 10. Barrandov Baroque: The Tenacious Artistry of Juraj Herz 297
19. 11. Václav Vorlíček: A Dream within a Dream 317
20. 12. The ‘Vault Films’ 339
21. Index 361