CONTEMPORARY SLOVAK FILM: A SYMPTOM OF THE TIMES OR A REPRESENTATION OF SOCIETY?
CONTEMPORARY SLOVAK FILM: A SYMPTOM OF THE TIMES OR A REPRESENTATION OF SOCIETY?
Author(s): Jana DudkováContributor(s): Jozef Ferencz (Translator)
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Aesthetics, Social development, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Ústav divadelnej a filmovej vedy SAV
Keywords: Slovak film; society; representation; generational gestures;
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with several overlooked approaches to Slovak cinema after 1989 and the way they mirror social change. The first part describes the interrupted development of Slovak cinema and the feelings of belatedness which go with it. It focuses primarily on generational gestures, reflections on impressions of the transition period (in the debut films of 1990s directors such as Martin Šulík, Štefan Semjan and Miro Šindelka). It reveals basic themes and spatial metaphors of one’s relationship towards society in these gestures, which indicate a gradual separation of filmmakers from reality. Other parts explain recent cinematographic developments as a reaction to this separation. Films have begun to adjust themselves to globalised culture, which has led to the connection of several features characteristic for the combination of the local and the global and of industrial and artistic images as well as with phenomena like festival films, popular films and auto-ironic films which reflect their own marketing mechanisms (Candidate).
Journal: Slovenské divadlo
- Issue Year: 62/2014
- Issue No: Special
- Page Range: 40-53
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English