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[email protected] TAKING THE NEW WAVE OUT OF ISOLATION: HUMOUR AND TRAGEDY OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK NEW WAVE AND POST-COMMUNIST CZECH CINEMA KENNETH WARD CONTENTS Introduction 2-40 Theoretical Approach 2 Crossing Over: Art Films That Could Reach the Whole World 7 Subversive Strand 10 Tromp L’oeil and the Darkly Comic 13 Attacking Aesthetics: Disruption Over Destruction 24 Normalization and Czech Cunning 28 History Repeats Itself: An Interminable Terminus 32 Doubling as Oppressor 36 Chapter One: Undercurrents and the Czechoslovak New Wave 41-64 Compliance and Defiance 41 A Passion for Diversion 45 People Make the System 52 Rebels Without a Cause 56 Summary 64 Chapter Two: A Very Willing Puppet 65-91 On the Cusp of a Wave 65 A Madman’s Logic 67 Mask of Objectivity