RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Černík, Jan
T1 Screenwriting and The Main Administration of Press Supervision in Czechoslovakia, 1953-1962
JF Iluminace
YR 2017
VO 29
IS 1
SP 29
OP 49
DO 10.58193/ilu.1501
UL https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-201701-0002.php
AB 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.