The <strong>Czechoslovak New Wave</strong> was originally published in 1985 and was quicklyestablished as the worlds leading authoritative Englishlanguage text.... » 

The Czechoslovak New Wave was originally published in 1985 and was quicklyestablished as the worlds leading authoritative Englishlanguage text. A studyof the most significant movement in postwar Central and East European cinemasit examines the origins of a movement against the political and culturaldevelopments of the 1960s leading to the Prague Spring of 1968. Peter Hamesalso summarizes key aspects of Czech and Slovak histories between the wars andin the 1940s and 1950s. Directors discussed include Milos Forman JanSvankmajer Jiri Menzel Jan Nemec. «