The Barrandov Studios : : A Central European Hollywood / / ed. by Bernd Herzogenrath.

The Barrandov Studios are one of the largest and oldest film studios in Europe. For more than 80 years so far, the studios have been the location of choice for over 2,500 Czech and International films. Barrandov’s founding fathers, the Havel brothers Vàclav and Milo. (the grandfather and uncle of la...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Eastern European screen cultures ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (366 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Once upon a (Central European) Time
  • I: (Film) History
  • 1. Barrandov and Its Founder, Miloš Havel
  • 2. The Concept of Regional Poetics of Cinema
  • 3. Barrandov’s First Fifteen Years
  • II: Production History
  • 4. Industrial Authorship and Group Style in Czech Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s
  • 5. Marcela Pittermannová : Barrandov Dramaturges as Clients, Brokers, and Patrons
  • 6. Ambitious ‘Alien’ Beats Perestroika
  • III: Individual Directors
  • 7. A Documentarian between Genres
  • 8. The Loves of a System: Miloš Forman and Barrandov
  • 9. Barrandov and Chytilová
  • 10. Barrandov Baroque: The Tenacious Artistry of Juraj Herz
  • 11. Václav Vorlíček: A Dream within a Dream
  • 12. The ‘Vault Films’
  • Index