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Transforming Socialist Festival: Cultural, Economic, and Institutional History of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival after 1989
- Standard Grant – Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) (2026 – 2028)
The interdisciplinary and methodologically innovative project explores transformation of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival after 1989. Following research on transnational history of the KVIFF prior 1989, it connects two dynamic fields of cinema studies and modern history–the study of festivals in Eastern Europe and of post-communist transformation. Encompassing cinema historiography, cultural memory, history of institutions, organization, economic history, and urban studies, the project proposes multilevel research of a prominent socialist cultural institution under new market and political conditions, in the framework of “long transformation”. While previous research emphasized political, economic, and social dimensions of transformation, the project shifts focus to the understudied area of culture. By applying historical methods on post-socialist festival, it promises to fill in a major gap in festival studies, historiography of post-1989 Czech cinema culture, and to break new grounds in studies of transformation in Central Eastern Europe and post-socialism.
- Team Leader:
Dr Jindřiška Bláhová
- Team:
Dr Jaromír Blažejovský (Masaryk Univerziy, Brno), PhDr. David Čeněk (FAMU), Dr Marta Edith Holečková (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences), Mgr. Jakub Jiřiště (FAMU), Dr Natascha Drubek (Freie Universität Berlin/FAMU), Dr Richard Nowell (FAMU), Dr Lea Petříková (FAMU), Dr Václav Rameš (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences), Dr. Lukáš Skupa, Dr. Klára Trsková (NFA)
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For questions or requests for information, please contact the project coordinator: Dr Jindřiška Bláhová (jindriska.blahova@amu.cz)