Nowofalowe znaczy też czechosłowackie
New Wave also Means Czechoslovakia

Summary/Abstract: The Czechoslovak New Wave was a phenomenon that astonished the film world in the 1960s. Half a century on, it continues to draw attention, and the works of Forman, Chytilová, Nĕmec, Menzel, Uher, or Hanák are part of both the rituals of cinema enthusiasts and film studies inquiry. Grażyna Świętochowska’s book Kino mniejsze. W kręgu filmów czeskiej i słowackiej Nowej Fali [Minor Cinema: In the Circle of Czech and Slovak New Wave Films] (2022) is the first monograph on the ‘Czechoslovak film miracle’ written in Poland by a single author. It is not just a linear history of individual directors’ careers or a description of the cultural status of significant films produced at Barrandov or Koliba studios. The book treats the Czech and Slovak New Wave as part of European art cinema filtered through a modernist artistic paradigm.

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