The vault and his children. Notes on banned films in socialist cinemas
The author focuses on the banning of films within socialist cinema as a systemic mechanism. He divides the vault cases into primary (Larks on a String, The Ear) and secondary (Spur der Steine, Maravillas, When the Cat Comes). Rehabilitation of the primary vault film. Banning films in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, GDR, China, Yugoslavia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Cuba. Typology of bans. Motives and mechanisms. The release of vault films in the perestroika and post-1989 periods.
Keywords: banned film, socialism and film, political systems and film, Prague Spring 1968, normalization, Velvet Revolution 1989
Published: September 1, 2010 Show citation
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