In Pool of Blood. Crime Films and its Production Cycles between Various Participants of Czechoslovak Nationalized Cinema (1945-1965)

The starting point of this dissertation thesis is a question relating to the assumptions of fictional, long-length crime films in the environment of the nationalized Czechoslovak cinema. The underlying research covers in depth the period between the years 1945 and 1965. The time period covered by this thesis begins with the moments of the May liberation and the August nationalization in Czechoslovakia and ends with the phase of a partial exhaustion of production cycles and genre designations. Since the mid-1960s, these films have established themselves and have successfully withstood numerous production and socio-political collisions for several decades. The main objective of this thesis is to clarify what was behind this genre development. Methodologically, the thesis applies the genre theory and benefits specifically from the research into production cycles adapted to the domestic environment. The definition of a production cycle - a thematic pattern occurring in a production application that is implemented regularly and without interruption over a period of several years - is adopted from the already existing definitions formulated by researchers who proposed this term (Rick Altman, Steve Neale), as well as (and especially) from those researchers who developed the relevant stimuli in their complex..