Lucie Česálková
Biographic Data
| ID | 5871208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucie Česálková |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucie |
| FAMILY NAME | Česálková |
| SIGNATURE | ČESÁLKOVÁ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0416-6783 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
To overcome the “RUR complex”. Public relations, media, and the diversification of audience outreach in late socialist Czechoslovakia
This article examines the emergence and institutionalization of public relations in state-socialist Czechoslovakia from the late 1960s to the 1980s. It argues that public relations in Czechoslovakia did not develop as an autonomous profession but rather as an interdisciplinary practice situated at the intersection of advertising, foreign trade, sociology, and psychology. Analysing professional debates and theories of the socialist consumer, the a…
Film Heritage on Demand? Curation and Discoverability of “Classic Movies” on Netflix
This text examines the phenomenon of the wide-ranging acquisition of archive films into the Netflix library and tries to understand it in terms of the current situation in the VOD market and the perspective of redefining the importance of film heritage in the streaming era. It argues that Netflix’s shift to “classics” is not just part of the company’s general expansion strategy but must be seen in broader context of current VOD market regulations…
Time Bomb from the West
in a 1989 article for the Czechoslovak weekly Tvorba, the cameraman and teacher Otto Brabec likened video to “cassette television,” which in only a few years had individualized access to the consumption of audiovisual content—primarily feature movies—on the domestic market. He spoke of the individualization of consumption at a time when only 4 to 6 percent of households in late-socialist Czechoslovakia owned a video recorder,1 noticing that peopl…
Scenographic engineer Josef Svoboda and Laterna Magika as a creative laboratory under state socialism
Josef Svoboda’s career was strongly linked to the exploration of new media and technological innovation. Svoboda realized his creative visions not only in domestic and foreign dramas and operas and artistic exhibitions, but also in the framework of a project on which he collaborated since the end of the 1950s – the multimedia theatre Laterna Magika. In this text, we analyze the stage design of Josef Svoboda for Laterna Magika from several perspec…
Stuck in Transformation
Feel the film’
Deploying concepts of professional memory and communities of practice, this article draws on interviews with two generations of film projectionists in Brno in the Czech Republic to investigate the profession of film projectionist as a phenomenon at the boundaries of memory studies, sociology, social anthropology and film history. From this standpoint, a study of cinema employees’ professional memory revises and refines the concept of cinema memor…
Between painting and illusion
This media-archaeological study examines the environment of Czech modernity, delineated by two crucial events organized at the turn of the nineteenth century in Prague – the first entirely Czech General Global Exhibition (1891) and the Exhibition of Architecture and Engineering (1898). Within the space of exhibitions, it is revealed how the interaction of individual innovations brought about by the end of the century influenced the definition of …
Film Heritage on Demand? Curation and Discoverability of “Classic Movies” on Netflix
This text examines the phenomenon of the wide-ranging acquisition of archive films into the Netflix library and tries to understand it in terms of the current situation in the VOD market and the perspective of redefining the importance of film heritage in the streaming era. It argues that Netflix’s shift to “classics” is not just part of the company’s general expansion strategy but must be seen in broader context of current VOD market regulations…
Feel the film’
Deploying concepts of professional memory and communities of practice, this article draws on interviews with two generations of film projectionists in Brno in the Czech Republic to investigate the profession of film projectionist as a phenomenon at the boundaries of memory studies, sociology, social anthropology and film history. From this standpoint, a study of cinema employees’ professional memory revises and refines the concept of cinema memor…
Between painting and illusion
This media-archaeological study examines the environment of Czech modernity, delineated by two crucial events organized at the turn of the nineteenth century in Prague – the first entirely Czech General Global Exhibition (1891) and the Exhibition of Architecture and Engineering (1898). Within the space of exhibitions, it is revealed how the interaction of individual innovations brought about by the end of the century influenced the definition of …
Feel the film’
Deploying concepts of professional memory and communities of practice, this article draws on interviews with two generations of film projectionists in Brno in the Czech Republic to investigate the profession of film projectionist as a phenomenon at the boundaries of memory studies, sociology, social anthropology and film history. From this standpoint, a study of cinema employees’ professional memory revises and refines the concept of cinema memor…
Scenographic engineer Josef Svoboda and Laterna Magika as a creative laboratory under state socialism
Josef Svoboda’s career was strongly linked to the exploration of new media and technological innovation. Svoboda realized his creative visions not only in domestic and foreign dramas and operas and artistic exhibitions, but also in the framework of a project on which he collaborated since the end of the 1950s – the multimedia theatre Laterna Magika. In this text, we analyze the stage design of Josef Svoboda for Laterna Magika from several perspec…
Stuck in Transformation
Time Bomb from the West
in a 1989 article for the Czechoslovak weekly Tvorba, the cameraman and teacher Otto Brabec likened video to “cassette television,” which in only a few years had individualized access to the consumption of audiovisual content—primarily feature movies—on the domestic market. He spoke of the individualization of consumption at a time when only 4 to 6 percent of households in late-socialist Czechoslovakia owned a video recorder,1 noticing that peopl…
Film Heritage on Demand? Curation and Discoverability of “Classic Movies” on Netflix
This text examines the phenomenon of the wide-ranging acquisition of archive films into the Netflix library and tries to understand it in terms of the current situation in the VOD market and the perspective of redefining the importance of film heritage in the streaming era. It argues that Netflix’s shift to “classics” is not just part of the company’s general expansion strategy but must be seen in broader context of current VOD market regulations…
To overcome the “RUR complex”. Public relations, media, and the diversification of audience outreach in late socialist Czechoslovakia
This article examines the emergence and institutionalization of public relations in state-socialist Czechoslovakia from the late 1960s to the 1980s. It argues that public relations in Czechoslovakia did not develop as an autonomous profession but rather as an interdisciplinary practice situated at the intersection of advertising, foreign trade, sociology, and psychology. Analysing professional debates and theories of the socialist consumer, the a…
Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (3 works)