TY - JOUR
T1 - A military avant garde
T2 - Experimentation in the Czechoslovak Army Film studio
AU - Lovejoy, Alice
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - This essay examines a series of experimental documentaries produced by the Czechoslovak Army Film studio in the late 1960s, films that were in many cases more radical, aesthetically and politically, than those of the contemporaneous Czechoslovak New Wave. The essay argues that institutional and political factors within the Army studio and the Czechoslovak state, as well as the broader social dynamics of the 'exceptional"' year of 1968, were central not only to the emergence of this 'military avant-garde', but also to the form that it took. These films thus ask us to reconsider the question of the relationship between cinema and the state within, and beyond, postwar East Central Europe, and to explore the 'productivity' of marginal spaces of cultural production.
AB - This essay examines a series of experimental documentaries produced by the Czechoslovak Army Film studio in the late 1960s, films that were in many cases more radical, aesthetically and politically, than those of the contemporaneous Czechoslovak New Wave. The essay argues that institutional and political factors within the Army studio and the Czechoslovak state, as well as the broader social dynamics of the 'exceptional"' year of 1968, were central not only to the emergence of this 'military avant-garde', but also to the form that it took. These films thus ask us to reconsider the question of the relationship between cinema and the state within, and beyond, postwar East Central Europe, and to explore the 'productivity' of marginal spaces of cultural production.
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U2 - 10.1093/screen/hjr038
DO - 10.1093/screen/hjr038
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84455170858
SN - 0036-9543
VL - 52
SP - 427
EP - 441
JO - Screen
JF - Screen
IS - 4
ER -