This course focuses on cinema under so-called real existing socialism in Poland and Czechoslovakia (1950s-1980s). It addresses how directors navigated the field between censorship and state-mandated cinematic aesthetics, and how the vision of a utopian communist society found expression in the form of film.
This course focuses on cinema under so-called real existing socialism in Poland and Czechoslovakia (1950s-1980s). It addresses how directors navigated the field between censorship and state-mandated cinematic aesthetics, and how the vision of a utopian communist society found expression in the form of film.
