SOCIALIST AND EUGENIC: CZECH FAIRY-TALE FILMS AND THE NATION'S HEALTH ; SOCIJALIZAM I EUGENIKA: ČEHOSLOVAČKI FILMOVI - BAJKE I ZDRAVLJE NACIJE

Abstract

The article embeds the three most popular fairy-tale films by Vaclav Vořlíček (Girl on a Broomstick, 1971; Three Wishes for Cinderella, 1973; How to Drown Dr. Mraček or the End of Water Spirits in Bohemia, 1975) in the socialist campaigns orchestrated by the Czechoslovak government in the late 1960s and early 1970s, whose goal was to introduce women to new practices directly relating to reproductive behavior. I explore this cohort of "crazy" comedies stemming from the story of domestication of women as a historical continuity in the development of the comic female Bildungsroman, one of the mainstream genres interrogating nation-building and popular culture in the Czech lands from the second third of the nineteenth century until today. The core frame of the Czech female Bildungsroman, namely the binary opposition of "us/them" related to the Czech-German relationship, ascribing to women the risk of Otherness, and the call for their Czechinization through intercourse with Czech men, are deconstructed through infiltration by eugenic motives disseminated in the public discourse concerning the nation's health between the 1960s and 1970s. ; Rad analizira tri najpopularnija filma-bajke autora Vaclava Vořlíčeka (Devojka na metli, 1971; Tri oraha za pepeljugu, 1973; Kao utopiti dr. Mračka, 1975) iz socijalističih kampanja orkestriranih od strane čehoslovačkih vlasti tokom druge polovine 1960-ih i ranih 1970-ih, čiji je cilj bio da se žene upoznaju sa novim praksama koje se direktno odnose na reproduktivno ponašanje. Rad se fokusira na 'lude' komedije koje se zasnivaju na pričama o pripitomljavanju žena kao deo istorijskog toka razvoja komične žene, bildungsromana, jednog od glavnih tokova izgradnje nacije i popularne kutlure u Čehoslovačkoj od druge trećine 19. veka do danas. Suštinski okvir čehoslovačke žene, bildungsroman, naime predstavlja binarnu opoziciju 'mi/oni' koja se tiče odnosa između Čehoslovačke i Nemačke, pripisujući ženama rizik od postajanja dela Drugog, ali i poziv na jačanje njihovog čehoslovačkog duha ...