German activities in the Czechoslovak film industry in the interwar period
| Název práce v češtině: | Německé aktivity v československém filmu v meziválečném období |
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| Název v anglickém jazyce: | German activities in the Czechoslovak film industry in the interwar period |
| Klíčová slova: | Filmový průmysl, meziválečné Československo, Německo |
| Klíčová slova anglicky: | Film Industry, Interwar Czechoslovakia, Germany |
| Akademický rok vypsání: | 2020/2021 |
| Typ práce: | bakalářská práce |
| Jazyk práce: | angličtina |
| Ústav: | Institut ekonomických studií (23-IES) |
| Vedoucí / školitel: | prof. PhDr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D. |
| Řešitel: | skrytý - zadáno vedoucím/školitelem |
| Datum přihlášení: | 30.09.2021 |
| Datum zadání: | 30.09.2021 |
| Zásady pro vypracování |
| The aim of my thesis is to analyze the activities of German movie companies in the interwar Czechoslovakia and their impact on the development of Czechoslovak film industry.
In the general Czech pop-culture, many movies are known including the old ones. During any holidays or on some specified television channels can be seen the old Czech classicst hat very often were produced during the interwar period. DOLEŽALOVÁ & MORAVCOVÁ (2020) generally describe the economic history of Czechoslovak film industry from the first republic, through the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to the age of communism. The work claims that Germany as the closest neighbour invested in film industry during the interwar period. The reasons behind German activities were the contingency system implemented by Czechoslovak government that supported the production of movies in Czechoslovakia, the fact that the most Czechoslovaks spoke German as the result of previous reign of Austria-Hungary, and due to intensive economic contacts with Germany. Doležalová et al. (2020) provided the first steps in the history of Czechoslovak film industry across the land’s history. Their work supplied several options to develop the research in this field. Contribution This thesis stresses the question of what was the intensity of relations between Czechoslovak and German entrepreneurs in the film industry and what was their effect on efficiency and development of the field in the then Czechoslovakia. For the first time, the thesis will analyse the funding of German films produced in Czechoslovakia, German investments in the field in Czechoslovakia and the trading of imported and exported films in both countries. Methodology In this work mainly the descriptive and comparative analysis will be used with help of archive data about the German activities in the film industry from Národní Filmový Archiv (National Film Archive), Archive of Czech National Bank and German archives thanks to my ongoing ERASMUS study in Munich). An econometric analysis will show how the Czechoslovak film industry was influenced by German activities in the field. |
| Seznam odborné literatury |
| Doležalová, Antonie & Moravcová, Hana (2020): Czechoslovak film industry on the way from private business to public good (1918-1945), Business History, DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2020.1751822
Czesany Dvořáková, T. & Doležalová, Antonie & Moravcová, Hana (2020): Historie československého / českého filmu v zrcadle jeho ekonomických dat, ILUMINACE Ročník 32, 2020, č. 1 (117) Wingfield, Nancy M. (1996): Film jako otázka národní identity. Zvukové filmy a pražské protiněmecké demonstrace v roce 1930. Wingfieldová, Nancy M. In: Iluminace. Časopis pro teorii, historii a estetiku filmu. Praha: Národní filmový archiv 8, č. 4, s. 5-33. Doležalová, Antonie (2013): Zwischen Autarkie, Emanzipation und Diskriminierung: Die Nostrifizierung in der Tschechoslowakei nach 1918. Bohemia 53, č. 1, s. 46–93. Bednařík, P. (2003). Arizace české kinematografie. [Aryanization of the Czech Cinematography.] Karolinum. Czesany Dvořáková, T. (2011). Idea filmové komory. Českomoravské filmové ústředí a kontinuita centralizačních tendencí ve filmovém oboru 30. a 40. let. [The idea of a Film Chamber. The Bohemian-Moravian Film union and continuity of centralizing tendencies in the film industry in the 1930s and 1940s.] Dissertation thesis. Faculty of Arts, Charles university. Štábla, Z. (1990). Data a fakta z dějin Čs. kinematografie 1896-1945. [Data and Facts from the History of the Czechoslovak Cinema 1896-1945]. Československý filmový ústav. Havelka, J. (1935). Československé filmové hospodářství [Czechoslovak Cinema Economy]. Čefis. Havelka, J. (1936). Československé filmové hospodářství [Czechoslovak Cinema Economy]. Nakladatelství Knihovny Filmového kurýru. Havelka, J. (1937). Československé filmové hospodářství [Czechoslovak Cinema Economy]. Nakladatelství Knihovny Filmového kurýru. Havelka, J. (1938). Československé filmové hospodářství [Czechoslovak Cinema Economy] (1st ed.). Nakladatelství Knihovny Filmového kurýru. |
| Předběžná náplň práce |
| Introduction
Review of literature and methodological introduction Historical and political context The economic situation in the then Czechoslovakia and Germany with special focus on the state of the film industry in both countries Analysis German activities in the film industry and their impact on the development of the Czechoslovak film industry Conclusion |