CONTENTS


Lecture 1 - Introduction to the history of Czech
cinema.............................................................................................
...........................6


·        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”.........................................................................................
........................................7

- “The Second Generation: Czechoslovakia,
1956-1962”.........................................................................................
.....................................................12


Lecture 2 - The silent era: Gustav Machatý: Erotikon
(1929).............................................................................................
....................17

·        Hames, Peter. The Czechoslovak New Wave: “Culture and Society, The Czechoslovak Cinematic
Tradition......................................................................18


Lecture 3 - The sound era 1930-1945 – Martin Frič: Kristian
(1939).............................................................................................
.............25


Lecture 4 – The Holocaust theme in Czech cinema I – Alfréd Radok: Distant Journey (Daleká cesta,
1949).........................................28

·         Jiří Cieslar: „Living with the long journey: Alfréd Radok‘s Daleká
cesta“.............................................................................................
.........................29


Lecture 5 - Czech historic movies between great epics and art or spiritual cinema I: Otakar Vávra:
Witches’ Hammer (Kladivo na čarodějnice, 1969)
...................................................................................................
................................................................................................34


Lecture 6 - Czech historic movies between great epics and art or spiritual cinema II: František
Vláčil: Marketa Lazarová
(1967).............................................................................................
...................................................................................................
......................36
  * Hames, Peter. The Czechoslovak New Wave: “František
Vláčil”............................................................................................
...........................37


Lecture 7 - The Holocaust theme in Czech cinema II – Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos: The Shop on Main Street
(Obchod na korze, 1965).. 48

§  Hames, Peter. The Czechoslovak New Wave. “Ján Kadár and Elmar
Klos”..............................................................................................
...........52

§  Urgošíková, Blažena. “Obchod na korze” (“The Shop on Main
Street”)...........................................................................................
.................53




Lecture 8 - The golden sixties: an introduction to Czech new wave Věra Chytilová: Daisies
(Sedmikrásky, 1966)........................ 54

·                    Hames, Peter. The Czechoslovak New Wave. “Věra
Chytilová”.........................................................................................
...................................55


Lecture 9 - A time of servants: the normalization period and after
..................................................................................................6
7

·                    Blažejovský, Jaromír. “Czech cinema in the normalization period (1969-1989). A
time of the servants.”......................................................................68


Lecture 10 -  The velvet revolution and
after..............................................................................................
...............................................77

·                    Hames, Peter. The Czechoslovak New Wave. “The Velvet Revolution and
After”.............................................................................................
........78


Lecture 11 –Contemporary Czech
documentary........................................................................................
..............................................84


Lecture 12 - Oldřich Lipský: Lemonade Joe Or The Horse Opera (Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera,
1964) ..............................................................85

§     Hames, Peter. “Way out
west”..............................................................................................
..........................................................................86