CORRECTION, with apologies :)

[Jan Culik]

Colleagues might be interested in a new monograph, which analyses the value system which Czech feature films, made in 1990-2011, relentlessly transmit into Czech society. 

http://www.sussex-academic.com/sa/titles/literary_criticism/culik.htm

 

Jan Čulík
University of Glasgow

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Jan Čulík, A Society in Distress: The Image of the Czech Republic in Contemporary Czech Feature Film


“Jan Čulík´s book is an excellent, well-organized, thoughtful, informative, illuminating and thoroughly scholarly work. It is also easily accessible to the general readership. I fully recommend it.” Josef Škvorecký, Novelist. The Late Professor Emeritus of English and Film, University of Toronto

“This is a remarkable contribution to the analysis of the value system disseminated by contemporary Czech cinema within Czech society.” Professor Jiří Holý, Charles University, Prague

Jan Čulík’s book analyses the value system constructed by Czech feature films produced since the fall of communism in 1989. It provides an overview of some three hundred Czech feature films made during this period. Over fourteen chapters, the book shows how Czech film makers have dealt with the legacy of communism and other traumatic past experiences, and how they have borne witness to recent political and social developments in the Czech Republic. In Čulík’s view, Czech feature film constructs an image of society which is still heavily influenced by the so-called “normalization” regime of the 1970s and 1980s, which was created in Czechoslovakia after the 1968 Soviet invasion.  Czech feature films bear witness to a society which suffers from fairly weak social and political structures. Many Czech films highlight the subordinate position of women in Czech society and project an image of impractical, inefficient, and aggressive men.  In discussing the films, Čulík uses the methodology of Cultural Studies, in which art is seen primarily as a specific kind of social communication within a certain cultural and historical context.

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