New Wave also Means Czechoslovakia
Mariusz Guzek
mariusz.guzek@gmail.comKazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2407-4499
Abstract
The Czechoslovak New Wave was a phenomenon that astonished the film world in the 1960s. Half a century on, it continues to draw attention, and the works of Forman, Chytilová, Nĕmec, Menzel, Uher, or Hanák are part of both the rituals of cinema enthusiasts and film studies inquiry. Grażyna Świętochowska’s book Kino mniejsze. W kręgu filmów czeskiej i słowackiej Nowej Fali [Minor Cinema: In the Circle of Czech and Slovak New Wave Films] (2022) is the first monograph on the ‘Czechoslovak film miracle’ written in Poland by a single author. It is not just a linear history of individual directors’ careers or a description of the cultural status of significant films produced at Barrandov or Koliba studios. The book treats the Czech and Slovak New Wave as part of European art cinema filtered through a modernist artistic paradigm.
Keywords:
Czechoslovak New Wave, Gilles Deleuze, European art cinemaReferences
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Mariusz Guzekmariusz.guzek@gmail.com
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2407-4499
Professor in the Institute of Cultural Sciences at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. He works in the area of regional studies (focusing on the film culture of Bydgoszcz), the history of Polish cinema during the First World War and the years following the restoration of Poland’s sovereignty, as well as the cinema of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. He is currently working on a monograph on Czech myths in film.
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