PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Blažejovský, Jaromír
TI  - The vault and his children. Notes on banned films in socialist cinemas
DP  - 2010 Sep 1
TA  - Iluminace
PG  - 8--27
VI  - 22
IP  - 3
IS  - 0862397X
AB  - The author focuses on the banning of films within socialist cinema as a systemic mechanism. He divides the vault cases into primary (Larks on a String, The Ear) and secondary (Spur der Steine, Maravillas, When the Cat Comes). Rehabilitation of the primary vault film. Banning films in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, GDR, China, Yugoslavia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Cuba. Typology of bans. Motives and mechanisms. The release of vault films in the perestroika and post-1989 periods.