A Report on the Party and the Guests: Czechoslovakian New Wave and the Culture of Leisure
Abstract
The aim of the article is to confront the historical Czechoslovak New Wave and the issue of free time seen through various practices of celebration, as well as examples of demonstrations and body regimes that are part of them. The socialist leisure class spends free time sur- rounded by nature, devoting itself to consumption (also readable in the narrative structure plan), ostentatiously escaping into private life. Dominant practices often duplicate well-recognized discipline techniques. In this approach, cinema exists primarily as a mirror of everyday life practices in which the critical readings of Michel Foucault and Václav Havel are viewed.
Keywords:
Czechoslovakian new wave, Czechoslovakian cinema, leisure, Michel Foucault, Václav HavelReferences
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Grażyna Świętochowskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Gdańsk Poland
Adiunkt w Katedrze Wiedzy o Filmie i Kulturze Audiowizualnej Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego. Interesuje się kulturą audiowizualną Europy Centralnej, perspektywą „Global Sixties” oraz wideograficznymi studiami filmoznawczymi. Przygotowuje do publikacji książkę Ćeske vynälezy. Wybrane aspekty kina czeskiego i słowackiego z lat 60. Redaktorka naczelna czasopisma naukowego „Panoptikum”.
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