There Will Be Dancing, Even Though There Is No Holiday! Explicit and Implicit Messages in Czech Socialist Cinematography

• Authors: Lozoviuk Petr

Title variants

CS

Tančit se bude, i když není svátek! Explicitní a implicitní sdělení socialistické kinematografie

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article presents a semiotic-ethnological analysis of two Czechoslovak feature films (“Zítra se bude tančit všude”, 1952; “V pátek není svátek”, 1979) which were made and also are set in the period of so-called real socialism. At a more general level, the article attempts to answer the question of the extent to which the film production of the socialist era can be seen as a specific source for the study of the everyday culture of that time. In the context presented, socialism is interpreted not only as an ideological-economic system, but as a culturally formative era. That is, as a particular way of life, which manifested itself in specific cultural expressions of the people who were forced to live in this order. The study further systematically focuses on the analysis of both films in terms of the functionality of implicit and explicit messages which are encoded in the researched outputs of socialist cinematography

Keywords

EN

Real socialism; culture type; ethnology and film; Czech socialist cinematography

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 42 - 51

Contributors

author

Lozoviuk Petr