CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Cambrelen, Vanessa Marie |
|---|---|
| Title | Theresienstadt: A Study in Documentary Film Production in Occupied Czechoslovakia |
| Summary | The goal of this thesis is to examine these filmmakers and see how Aktualita and those involved fared during and after the war in regards to their filmmaking, and how the films, or at least what remains of them, reflect on their lives during and after the war. Theresienstadt comes forward as a foil for Karel Pečený, Ivan Frič, Čeněk Zahradníček, Iréna Dodalová, Kurt Gerron and others, showcasing a multitude of both personal and social interpretations of their actions during the war. I intend to use secondary literature to help frame my argument, as the research done both in film studies on documentary filmmaking and the development of the Theresienstadt film itself are readily reliant on this literature. Throughout my thesis I will continually refer back to the German control over their production, as this seems to be the crux of their lasting remembrance; while some historians see Pečený, Frič, and Zahradníček as collaborators of the war, others see them as simply parties who were under duress during a wartime period and simply had to act and do what they could to survive, all the while trying to keep some form of resistance alive through their own filmmaking and editing. |
| Supervisor | Siefert, Marsha |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/cambrelen_vanessa.pdf |
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