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- Title
Film as Diplomat: The Politics of Postwar Screenings at Czechoslovak Foreign Embassies.
- Authors
ĆESALKOVÁ, LUCIE
- Abstract
I the years immediately following World War II, Europe faced a new geopolitical constellation. The war fundamentally transformed the international diplomatic position of Czechoslovakia as a small nation on the border between the East and West. This study exanmines the efforts of the Czechoslovak government to restore diplomatic relations through the screening of short nonfiction films at its foreign embassies. It examines ambassadorial screenings as a special kind of nontheatrical film practice and discusses these screenings both in the context of strained political relations at the time of the Cold War's overture and in the context of a postwar vision of peace-building dissemination of information.
- Subjects
CZECHOSLOVAKIAN foreign relations, 1945-1992; CZECH films; HISTORY of diplomacy; COLD War, 1945-1991; EMBASSIES; HISTORY of diplomatic &; consular services; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Film History, 2015, Vol 27, Issue 1, p88
- ISSN
0892-2160
- Publication type
Article