Publication details

Suffer for the Fame: Jiřina Štěpničková and Czech Female Film Stars 1930-1945

Authors

GMITERKOVÁ Šárka

Year of publication 2013
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description The presentation begins to shed much needed new scholarly light on this key aspect of the nation's film culture by way of a case study of the Czech star Jiřina Štěpničková in the period 1930-1945. This specific Czech actress whose stardom was articulated in terms of national and artistic discourses embodied key parts in films considered as classical in Czech cinema history. I adapt concepts developed in the study of Hollywood stardom to argue that, during the period, Czech film stardom was intimately bound up with conceptions of stardom related to nineteenth-century Czech theatre.

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