Alice Lovejoy is a film, media, and cultural historian, and Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and the Moving Image Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. She has also worked as a film critic, curator, and filmmaker, including as an editor at Film Comment magazine.
Imagination is Power: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military
Rivaling the contemporaneous New Wave in its aesthetic innovations, Czechoslovakia’s Army Film studio challenged political orthodoxies and military regulations during the Prague Spring. In this excerpt from the book Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military ,Alice Lovejoy looks to the sobering vision of Forest (Les, 1969) and 34 Women (34 ženy, 1969), both of which are included in the Expanding the Frame series Imagination is Power.
