ISBN: 978-80-244-6396-4 | DOI: 10.5507/ff.23.24463964

Slepá cesta k socialistické detektivce

Koncept socialistické detektivky a jeho (ne)realizace v českém filmu

Michal Sýkora, a kolektiv

The term "socialist detective fiction" was coined in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the countries of the so-called Eastern Bloc as a reaction to contemporary Western genre production, particularly the "police procedural", and was intended to signify a qualitatively higher artistic form of the genre based primarily on a class-determined depiction of criminal activity and a celebratory portrayal of the work of the security forces as defenders of the socialist establishment and its construction. The book traces the circumstances and context of the promotion of the concept of the "socialist detective story" and the various forms of both the definition of the official doctrine and its submission. While in the 1960s, which are now perceived by both the professional and lay public as the imaginary golden age of Czech detective film, the theory of the socialist detective story was more or less rejected by the filmmakers, in the following normalisation period, the detective and crime genre fully submitted to the ideological service of the regime.

1. edition, Published: 2023, publisher: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Křížkovského 8, 771 47 Olomouc