Avant-Garde to New Wave
Jonathan L. Owen
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Description for Avant-Garde to New Wave
Hardcover. The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 3JJPK; APF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism. This book explores the avant-garde's influence over the New Wave and considers the political implications of that influence. The close analysis of selected films, ranging from the Oscar-winning Closely Observed Trains to the aesthetically challenging Daisies, is contextualized by an account of the Czech avant-garde and a discussion of the films' immediate cultural and political background.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857451262
SKU
V9780857451262
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About Jonathan L. Owen
Jonathan L. Owen is a Teaching Fellow at the University of St. Andrews. He completed his Ph.D. on Czech cinema at the University of Manchester. His research interests include the European cinema of the 1960s and 1970s and the Czech twentieth-century avant-garde.
Reviews for Avant-Garde to New Wave
"Jonathan L. Owen’s book will be very valuable for scholars and students of Czech and Slovak cinema and of the Czechoslovak avant-garde generally, as well as for those interested in applying poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theory to film...Each individual film analysis is rich, detailed, well-researched, and original, as Owen smoothly adapts the insights of previous scholars in formulating his own…an undeniably ... Read more