Art cinema houses, art film clubs and situation of cinemas with one screen

The objective of my work is to describe contemporary situation of art cinema houses and art film clubs in the Czech Republic. Tradition of these institutions in our country is dated back to the end of the fifties of the twentieth century. At present this area is going through some changes that I try to analyze. In the first part I define the terms which are key for my work. Further I pay attention to activities of art cinema houses and art film clubs until 1993 when the Asociation of Czech Film Clubs was established. Its activities, issues related to art cinemahouses and artfilm clubs are described in the chapter 4 and 5. Further I deal with functioning of cinemas with one screen from perspective of dramaturgy and financing. At the end I describe potential future development of these institutions in the Czech Republic using a comparison with trends in other countries