McFarland 11/30/2003 12: 00: 00 AM Softcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.

ISBN10: 078641720X, ISBN13: 9780786417209, [publisher: McFarland & Co Inc] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. This work features 16 uncensored interviews with filmmakers who have struggled to realise their visions in a constantly shifting political landscape.
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

ISBN10: 078641720X, ISBN13: 9780786417209, [publisher: Mcfarland And Company, Inc.] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In Czechoslovakia, in the 1960s, artists began to realize that the aesthetics of social realism contrasted with the realities of daily life; a movement of film arose in response to the politics and history of the nation. This work collects candid interviews with the creators of the Czech New Wave film movement (1960-2000). Their work put Czech film on the map of world cinema, generating two Oscars for Best Foreign Film, but the official critique marked them as decadent, pessimistic, and reactionary.The work contains sixteen uncensored interviews with filmmakers such as Jan Nemec, Jiri Menzel, Säa Gedeon, and Jan Sverak, who describe the struggle to realize their visions in a constantly shifting political landscape: from the mid-1960s, through the repressive ''normalization'' after the Soviet occupation in 1968 (more films were banned in 1970 than during the previous twenty years of Communism), and after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. The interviews give portraits of some of the most talented figures in film, revealing artists searching for individual and national identity, who describe living and making film in the Czech Republic now and in the past, explore how foreign films influence Czech film, and speculate on the future of film. Each interview includes a short biography, filmography, ...
Show/Hide image