The purpose of the paper entitled Warning! Or the case of Ondrej Muranica is to analyse the poetics and aesthetics of the first largely Slovak feature film produced shortly after the World War II., in 1946. It focuses on the characteristics of formal means of expression with overreaches in the contents and national principles, which are brought to prominence in this first Slovak feature film. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of the stage, acting, and direction characteristics which are attributed to the actor and film director Palo Bielik, founder of the Slovak feature film production. The feature film Warning is fundamental pillars among the of Slovak cinematography, which is markedly reflected in the construing of schemes and stereotypes typical of Bielik's feature film production and which are to be found in the production of other Slovak film directors that directly followed.
The Slovak cinematography has to cope with the following conditions: the country’s small unprofitable market, small population size, underdeveloped cinematographic infrastructure and lack of viewership’s affinity to Slovak films. They largely predetermine its development in the coming years. This paper explores institutional conditions in the European and Central European context based on available studies on economic factors and trends in public support in the era of increasing digitalization in order to point to the current challenges of the domestic environment in relation to the systemic stabilization of the realization base of Slovak cinematography and help identify potential phenomena in the domestic audio-visual sphere.
The text constitutes a recapitulation of the filmographic reflection in the Czech Republic and Slovakia of the so called 'zenska otázka' (women's issue). The feminist and gender thought appeared in public and scientific reflection only after the Velvet Revolution encountering a moderate and uninvolved reaction from the scientific and artistic societies. The women's issue in the Czech and Slovak cinema, which had been till that moment fairly undescribed, represents an early stage of academic feminism. Czech and Slovak women's studies focus on gathering knowledge about history, culture and social and political life of women. The discourse includes the analysis of the picture of women mostly in early cinema, reflection on the category of womanhood, its specificity and changes it has undergone in the historical process. In the mean time, female film directors are playing a greater role in the achievements of the Czech Republic and Slovakia's cinematography. The contemporary women's cinema is a work of art that is visibly distinguishable quantitatively and qualitatively. It is an underexplored field in Czech and Slovak film thought that is characterized by its feministic and gender approach.
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