Project information
Cultural-historical context of transition to recorded synchronous sound in the Czech cinema
- Project Identification
- GP408/03/D174
- Project Period
- 9/2003 - 8/2006
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Czech Science Foundation
- Postdoctoral projects
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Arts
- Keywords
- early sound cinema, international contexts of national cinema, intermediality
The aim of this project is to prepare for publication a historical and theoretical monograph using today´s methods of research to analyze the complex contexts within which the global expansion of reproduced sound in the Czech cinema of the early 1930s took place. The advent of sound will not be treated as a point in technological progress but as a breaking point in a longer cultural history of film sound, as well as in the history of interrelations between the national and the international context of the Czech film culture. The historical process will be contextualized within a complex network of relations, including the formal-aesthetic, cultural, social, political, economical, industrial and technological factors, not only in terms of film form (changes in style and narrative techniques) but also in terms of distribution (the history of politics and economics of distribution), exhibition (the history of ways of film exhibition in cinemas) and reception (the transformation of the spectator´s cultural experience, the national and political contexts of the spoken language in film, the public debate about synchronous sound). The project will be based on an original resource-oriented research and the methods of the "new film history" which emphasizes interpretation of the widest spectrum of resources, as well as the issues of reception. The project will be coordinated with the research activities of an international group of film historians, organized by University of Udine. The theme of this work will provide a ground for future, more general cultural and historical reflections and the resulting text will be designed to address scholarly, interest and non-professional groups of readers.
Publications
Total number of publications: 14
2011
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Hollywood in disguise. Practices of exhibition and reception of foreign films in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s.
Cinema, Audiences and Modernity. New Perspectives on European Cinema History, year: 2011, number of pages: 20 s.
2010
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Piosenka jako przykład synergii między filmem, przemysłem płytowym a radiem w latach trzydziestych XX wieku
Pogranicza audiowizualności. Parateksty kina, telewizji i nowych mediów, year: 2010, number of pages: 21 s.
2009
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Modernism, Industry, Film: A Network of Media in the Baťa Corporation and the Town of Zlín in the 1930s
Films that Work. Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media, year: 2009, number of pages: 27 s.
2008
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Sonic Imagination, or Film Sound as a Discursive Construct in Czech Culture of the Transitional Period
MLVs Cinema and other media / Versioni multiple Cinema e altri media, year: 2008, number of pages: 17 s.
2007
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Film a nahrávací průmysl. Případ Ultraphonu
Iluminace. Časopis pro teorii, historii a estetiku filmu, year: 2007, volume: 19, edition: 3
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Krieg der Patente. Die deutschen Elektrokonzerne und die tschechoslowakische Filmindustrie in den 1930er Jahren
Zwischen Barrandov und Babelsberg. Deutsch-tschechische Filmbeziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert, year: 2007, number of pages: 14 s.
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Modernität, Industrie, Film: Der Verbund der Medien in der Firma Ba`ta und in der Stadt Zlin in den 1930er Jahren
Filmische Mittel, industrielle Zwecke: Das Werk des Industriefilms, year: 2007
2006
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Poněmčený Hollywood v Praze. Recepce "německých verzí" a popularita zahraničních filmů v pražských kinech počátkem třicátých let
Iluminace. Časopis pro teorii, historii a estetiku filmu, year: 2006, volume: 18, edition: 1
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Speech and noise as the elements of intermedia history of the early Czech sound cinema
MLVs Cinema and other media / Versioni multiple Cinema e altri media, year: 2006
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The „Birth” of Cinema History: Coming of Film Sound and Media Inventing their Own Past
MLVs Cinema and other media / Versioni multiple Cinema e altri media, year: 2006