Mainstream si experiment în cadrul culturii cehe, cu aplicaţie pe domeniul cinematografiei. Un (Nou) Nou Val al filmului ceh?
Mainstream and experiment in Czech culture, with application in the field of cinematography. A (New) New Wave of Czech Film?

Summary/Abstract: This material is aiming to present the role of the mainstream within the Czech culture through the field of the cinema industry, because that’s where the force and the importance of the mainstream are more obvious than anywhere else. Of course the mainstream is not specific only to the field of cinema: the history of the Czech literature, theatre, music or plastic arts proves that “the strong and sane middle stream” addressed more or less directly to the “art consumer/ receiver” has always been dominant within all those fields of the Czech culture and much more present than the intellectual art, the experimental and “new wave like” movements, which addressed only a limited circle of initiated people. On another hand, we wouldn’t like to diminish the role of the experimental art: it is well known and true the fact that the Czech art and culture are internationally famous mainly because of the intellectual and new wave like movements, while the mainstream authors and creation are known rather to the Czech audience in the respective historical era. Therefore we present some examples of experimental movements that became internationally famous especially in the field of literature, theatre and cinema. (Actually the Czech cinema became famous mainly because of the very “non-mainstream” Czech and Slovak New Wave in the 60s of the 20th century.) In short, we don’t intend to deny the role of the experiment, but to stress the importance of the mainstream that does not deserve being forgotten. Our main arguments concern mainly the Czech film mainstream in the 30s of the 20th century and after the year 1993, when the Czech Republic became an independent state, but contains also a short comment about the already mentioned Czech New Wave in the 60s.

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