Iluminace 2008, 20(3):189-197
Correspondence between the American Embassy in Prague and the State Department
The six authentic documents provide information about the negotiations between Hollywood studios and the nationalized Czechoslovak industry, or rather, they provide a view of these negotiations from the point of view of the American side, of the cultural-promotional practices of the department in the socialist state, of the screenings organized for the Czech employees of the American embassy, and of the repression with which the Czech viewers of these performances were prosecuted by the Czech secret police. The documents come from the US National Archives in Washington.
Keywords: film history, film science and research, film industry, import and export of films, socialism
Published: September 1, 2008 Show citation
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