PT Journal
AU Skopal, P
TI Films out of Necessity. The Means of Framing Film Screenings and Spectatorial Experiences in the Stalinist Era
SO Iluminace
PY 2009
BP 71
EP 92
VL 21
IS 3
WP https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-200903-0005.php
DE film history; film distribution; audience; film weekly; communistic ideology; sociology of film
SN 0862397X
AB The author focuses on the practice of showing older Czech films newly equipped with an introductory text and the so-called extended programmes, i.e. attaching medium-length documentaries to feature films in the early 1950s. These practices, he argues, demonstrate the contradiction between two ways of understanding cinema in post-war cultural policy - cinema as a place of education or upbringing and cinema as a place of entertainment.
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