CONTENTS


Lecture 1 - Introduction to the history of Czech cinema


·        Liehm, Mira and Liehm, Antonin J. 1977. The Most Important Art. Soviet and Eastern
European Film After 1945:

- “From New Realism to Fairy Tales: Czechoslovakia 1945-1955”

- “The Second Generation: Czechoslovakia, 1956-1962”

·         Blažejovský, Jaromír. “Czech cinema in the normalization period (1969-1989). A time of
the servants.”


Lecture 2 – The Holocaust theme in Czech cinema – Alfréd Radok: Distant Journey (Daleká cesta,
1949).

·                      Jiří Cieslar: „Living with the long journey: Alfréd Radok‘s Daleká cesta“


Lecture 3 - Vojtěch Jasný: When the Cat Comes (a.k.a. Cassandra Cat - Až přijde kocour, 1963

·                      Hames, Peter. The Czechoslovak New Wave:  “Desire – Vojtěch Jasný”


Lecture 4 – Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos: The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze, 1965)

·                     Hames, Peter. The Czechoslovak New Wave. “Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos”

·                    Urgošíková, Blažena. “Obchod na korze” (“The Shop on Main
Street”)


Lecture 5 - Czech historic movies I, František Vláčil: Marketa Lazarová (1967) – part
I


·        Hames, Peter. The Czechoslovak New Wave: “František Vláčil”

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Lecture 6 - Czech historic movies II, František Vláčil: Marketa Lazarová (1967) – part
II






Lecture 7 – The new wave: an introduction (fragments)


·              Liehm, Mira and Liehm, Antonin J. 1977. The Most Important Art. Soviet and Eastern
European Film After 1945:

- „The Miracle and the Young Wave: Czechoslovakia after
1963”



Lecture 8 - Miloš Forman: Loves of a Blonde (A Blonde in Love – Lásky jedné plavovlásky,
1965)

·               Hames, Peter. The Czechoslovak New Wave. “Miloš
Forman”


Lecture 9 - Jiří Menzel: Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky,
1966)

·                                 Hames, Peter. The Czechoslovak New Wave. “Jiří
Menzel”


Lecture 10 - Juraj Herz: The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol, 1968)

·                          Hames, Peter. The Czechoslovak New Wave. “Juraj Herz”


Lecture 11 - Vojtěch Jasný: All My Good Countrymen (Všichni dobří rodáci, 1969)

 Hames, Peter. The Czechoslovak New Wave:  “Desire – Vojtěch
Jasný”

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Lecture 12 - Otakar Vávra: Witches’ Hammer (Kladivo na čarodějnice, 1969)


Lecture 13 - The genre movies of the sixties – musicals, comedies, fairy tales, detective stories
(fragments)            .