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Czech Postcommunist Cinema and the Prague Spring

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Czech Postcommunist Cinema and the Prague Spring

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    1. Czech Postcommunist Cinema and the Prague Spring Václav Klaus: Prague Spring 1968: a minor power struggle between two CP factions Czech right wing media: the same view Today´s students at Czech universities: the current image of the 1968 „heroes“ dissuades young people from accessing information about 1968 – „irrelevant“

    2. Czech cinema Rebelové (Rebels, 2001) – retro-musical Young people in love Three army defectors meet three girls

    3. Rebelové (2001) Desertion was not the most salient characteristic of 1968 Grotesque images of teachers „neglected“ Baroque church is actually painstakingly restored

    4. Rebelové (2001) Private business – not the most salient characteristic of 1968 Neoconservative perception: liberty equals consumerism Natiowide political debate ignored Communist ideological jargon on TV – was not the case in 1968.

    5. Rebelové (2001) No jamming of Voice of America High quality lyrics from the 1960s in a new, inane context =>Rebelové is a film about the 1970s, with bits from the present time

    6. Pelíšky (Cosy Dens 1999) Film about two families in a villa Ostensibly takes place from winter 1967 until Warsaw Pact invasion of August 1968

    7. Pelíšky (Cosy Dnes, 1999) Two stereotyped ciphers: Anticommunist Kraus Communist Šebek No real people

    8. Pelíšky (Cosy Dens, 1999) Life in the normalisation era in the „cosy dens“ Most intense at Christmas

    9. Pelíšky (Cosy Dens, 1999) Childlike activity of adults: Debate about the size of the bear codiac Setting your alkoholic breath on fire Holding breath under water

    10. Pelíšky (Cosy Dens, 1999) Factual errors: Literární listy did not appear until 1st March, 1968; in the film teacher Eva takes them to school before Christmas 1967, etc. Absolutely no political activity

    11. Pelíšky (Cosy Dens, 1999) Film mocks pro-regime and anti-regime attitudes in equal measure => „Political activity is absurd“ „We desire life in privacy“

    12. Czech postcommunist films about 1968: Are in fact films about the normalisation period of the 1970s and 1980s, which is the most traumatic period in recent Czechoslovak history, affecting the Czechs and Slovak deeply still today.

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