LEADER 00000cam a2200469Ia 4500 001 841393690 003 OCoLC 005 20140611044515.0 008 130430s2013 xxua 001 0 eng d 020 0857459015 020 9780857459015 040 YDX|cYDX|dSTF|dOCLCF|dCUY 050 00 PN1993.5.C9|bO84 2013 100 1 Owen, Jonathan L 245 10 Avant-garde to new wave :|bCzechoslovak cinema, surrealism and the sixties. 250 First paperback edition. 260 New York :|bBerghahn Books,|c2013 300 245 p. :|bill. ;|c23 cm. 505 0 Introduction: Surrealism in and out of the Czechoslovak new wave -- Inspirations, opportunities : cultural and historical contexts -- Pavel Juráček's Josef Kilián (1963) and A case for the young hangman (1969) : from the surreal object to the absurd signifier -- Jiří Menzel's Closely observed trains (1966) : Hrabal and the heterogeneous -- Spoiked aesthetics : realism and anti-humanism in Věra Chytilová's Daisies (1966) -- Flights from history : otherness, politics and folk avant-gardism in Juraj Jakubisko's The deserter and the nomads (1968) and Birds, orphans and fools (1969) -- Back to utopia : returns of the repressed in Jaromil Jireš's Valerie and her week of wonders (1970) -- Jan Švankmajer : contemporary Czech surrealism and the renewal of language. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CBPF. 520 "The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave [...] 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 [...] is contextualized by an account of the Czech avant-garde and a discussion of the films' immediate cultural and political background."-- Back cover. 600 10 Juráček, Pavel,|d1935-1989. 600 10 Menzel, Jiří. 600 10 Chytilová, Věra,|d1929-2014. 600 10 Jakubisko, Juraj,|d1938- 600 10 Jireš, Jaromil,|d1935-2001. 600 10 Švankmajer, Jan,|d1934- 648 7 1900 - 1999|2fast 650 0 Motion pictures|zCzechoslovakia|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 Experimental films|zCzechoslovakia|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 Surrealism in motion pictures. 650 7 Motion pictures.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01027285 650 7 Surrealism in motion pictures.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01139549 651 7 Czech Republic.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01256743 655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 956 20140611 |bpfmcq|cCCS|cCCE 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140622 994 C0|bCUY