RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Bláhová, Jindřiška
T1 "They've Seen the Impossible ... they've Lived the Incredible ...". Repackaging Czechoslovak Films for the US Market during the Cold War
JF Iluminace
YR 2012
VO 24
IS 3
SP 138
OP 143
UL https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-201203-0009.php
AB About the historical understanding of the practices of film distributors, the use of movie posters to "repackage" films for different markets, different audiences in different time periods, and the search for and manipulation of films imported from "hostile Czechoslovakia" in the second half of the 20th century, specifically on two Czech fantasy-adventure films, Invention of Destruction and Ikaria XB-1, which premiered in the US in 1961 and 1964. Documented on the movie posters of both films in the Czech version and the version for American distribution.