RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Skopal, Pavel
T1 Films out of Necessity. The Means of Framing Film Screenings and Spectatorial Experiences in the Stalinist Era
JF Iluminace
YR 2009
VO 21
IS 3
SP 71
OP 92
UL https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-200903-0005.php
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.