The Barrandov Studios: A Central European Hollywood

doi:10.1017/9789048542017

The Barrandov Studios

A Central European Hollywood

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Edited by Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: February 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9789048542017
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048542017

Subjects:: Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication
Series:: Eastern European screen cultures

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The Barrandov Studios are one of the largest and oldest film studios in Europe. For more than 80 years so far, the studios have been the location of choice for over 2,500 Czech and International films. Barrandov's founding fathers, the Havel brothers Vàclav and Milo. (the grandfather and uncle of later president Vàclav Havel), built the 'Hollywood of Eastern Europe' in the 1930s.

A legendary studio like this - and its story - has so far not been told to an English-speaking readership. This collection aims to correct this, presenting the studio's rich history, its esteemed directors, and their most important films.

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A Central European Hollywood

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

List of Figures
pp 7-10

Acknowledgments
pp 11-12

Introduction: Once upon a (Central European) Time
pp 13-40

I - (Film) History
pp 41-42

1 - Barrandov and Its Founder, Miloš Havel
pp 43-66

2 - The Concept of Regional Poetics of Cinema: Czech Films of the 1920s and Early 1930s
pp 67-104

3 - Barrandov’s First Fifteen Years: Genres, Stars, Germans, and the Nation
pp 105-128

II - Production History
pp 129-130

4 - Industrial Authorship and Group Style in Czech Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s
pp 131-168

5 - Marcela Pittermannová : Barrandov Dramaturges as Clients, Brokers, and Patrons
pp 169-192

6 - Ambitious ‘Alien’ Beats Perestroika: Pražská 5 (1988), Home Video, and Producing Politically Subversive Cinema at Barrandov in the 1980s
pp 193-216

III - Individual Directors
pp 218-219

7 - A Documentarian between Genres: Jiří Weiss – A Crossover Auteur at Barrandov
pp 219-250

8 - The Loves of a System: Miloš Forman and Barrandov
pp 251-270

9 - Barrandov and Chytilová
pp 271-296

10 - Barrandov Baroque: The Tenacious Artistry of Juraj Herz
pp 297-316

11 - Václav Vorlíček: A Dream within a Dream
pp 317-338

12 - The ‘Vault Films’
pp 339-360

Index
pp 361-365

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