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A study of the most significant movement in post-war Central and East European cinemas, it examines the origins of a movement against the political and cultural developments of the 1960s leading to the Prague Spring of 1968. Peter Hames also summarizes key aspects of Czech and Slovak histories between the wars and in the 1940s and 1950s. Directors discussed include Milos Forman, Jan Svankmajer, Jiri Menzel, and Jan Nemec.Hames, Peter is the author of 'Czechoslovak New Wave', published 1985 under ISBN 9780520048591 and ISBN 0520048598.
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