Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe: Visual Culture and the Reconstruction of Public Space

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Lucie Cesalkova is an Associate Professor at the Department of Film Studies Charles University and an editor at Pragues National Film Archive. At the Institute of Contemporary History CAS she was the Principal Investigator of the HERA funded international project Visual Culture of Trauma Obliteration and Reconstruction in Post-World War II Europe. In her research she focuses on nonfiction and documentary film educational and advertising film on film exhibition and moviegoing. Johannes Praetorius-Rhein is a research associate at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg (Potsdam) and an adjunct lecturer at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. Previously he was a researcher at the Goethe-University for the ViCTOR-E-project. His research focuses on postwar cinema Jewish film history and producer studies. Perrine Val is a film historian. She is a lecturer at the Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3. Her research focuses on transnational cinematographic exchanges during the Cold War. She published a book based on her Ph.D. thesis about the cinematographic relationships between France and the GDR entitled Les relations cinématographiques entre la France et la RDA: entre camaraderie bureaucratie et exotisme (19461992) (Villeneuve dAsq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion 2021). Paolo Villa is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pavia after being a member of the ViCTOR-E project at the University of Udine. Alongside articles on journals and edited volumes he authored a book on art documentaries in Italy La camera di Stendhal. Il film sullarte in Italia (19451970). His research focuses on non-fiction and industrial cinema the mediatisation of cultural heritage and landscape the history of movie theaters in Italy.