VYPŮJČENÁ IMAGINACE. (Czech)

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    • Alternate Title:
      BARROWED IMAGINATION. (English)
    • Subject Terms:
      SOVIET Union; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; GERMANY (West); POLAND; HUNGARY
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on the distribution and exhibition of genre movies produced by nationalized film industries during the period of so-called developed socialism (from the 1960s through 1989). The text assesses various statistics and film magazines in order to verify the importance of domestic genre films for cinemas and audiences in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. The Czechoslovak chapter is extended with a probe into the practices of the Vesmir cinema in the small industrial village of Zastávka, near Brno. The questions were: How many screenings were usually given to the films of socialist countries and which ones were shown during weekends. The best of times for socialist genre movies was during the 1960s, when these national cinemas succeeded in the production of historical epics, red westerns and cloak-and-dagger adventure movies. Nevertheless, their box-office results were rarely better than those of their pre-images from the West. Socialist genre movies were, symptomatically, based on borrowed imagination presenting worlds of fiction very far from everyday life under reel socialism. Originál historical epics were connected with national mythologies controlled by state propaganda. The share of socialist genre films at the box office declined gradually during the 1970s and 1980s - the film studios as Buftea and Bojana couldn't compete with New Hollywood blockbusters and kept the old-fashioned style of the 1960s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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