FANTASTICKO-DOBRODRUŽNÝ NEBO UTOPISTICKÝ? (Czech)

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    • Alternate Title:
      FANTASY-ADVENTURE OR UTOPIAN? (English)
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      Anna Batistová follows the genre label "sci-fi" in writing about films from 1960s Czechoslovakia. Being inspired by Jason Mittel's study of genre in television, she avoids a study of film texts, and follows the discursive construction of the term sci-fi and its older variants (i.e. utopian). The author first studies a periodical issued by the cinema industry and its ways of describing films with genre terms in generál, and the use of sci-fi and related terms in particular. Secondly, she tracks reviews of Czech films described as sci-fi in three magazines intended for a larger readership. And lastly, several films are being observed in a larger variety of serial publications. While Czechoslovak writers employed genre terminology similar to that of reports on Hollywood cinema (as described by Rick Altman), they used it in a different way. Their goal seems to be rather to describe a given film than to categorize it or compare with other works. Genre categories are not evolving systematically, but they are somewhat used ad hoc. In the course of the 1960s, "sci-fi" seems to be naturalized, but it never completely forces out older descriptions of the genre, such as "fantasy" or "utopian." Also, where the communal function of a particular film is perceived as primary, the genre category is pushed aside altogether. How exactly films were described generically, what categories function as genre, and how the term "genre" alone was used in the Czechoslovak cinema of the postwar era and in politically affiliated countries should be the subject of further research of both industry and discursive practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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