Iluminace 2017, 29(1):29-49 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1501

Screenwriting and The Main Administration of Press Supervision in Czechoslovakia, 1953-1962

Jan Černík
Univerzita Palackého

The topic of the study is censorship in screenwriting in Czechoslovakia during 1950s. In this period production process in nationalized film industry was stabilized and The Main Administration of Press Supervision was established as the main censorship institution with tendencies to centralize censorship over mass media. In literature up to now the relation between censorship and 1950s screenwriting is mentioned as one-way administrative interventions. This approach is focused solely on the difficulties in the process of approval and cannot reveal the censorship as a system. The already complicated process of screenplay development acquired one more layer of control. In this study, I employ a method that describes censorship as a communication between filmmakers and censors. After the institution was stabilized censors started to optimize the approval process and changed the system of control several times. The presented study describes the approval process and how it changed.

Keywords: screenwriting, censorship in screenwriting, Main Administration of Press Supervision, literature and film

Published: March 1, 2017  Show citation

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Černík, J. (2017). Screenwriting and The Main Administration of Press Supervision in Czechoslovakia, 1953-1962. Iluminace, 29(1), 29-49. doi: 10.58193/ilu.1501
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