caa a22 4500 388056835 CHVBK 20180307125109.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199801 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S006723780001482X doi S006723780001482X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S006723780001482X Wingfield Nancy Meriwether When Film Became National:"Talkies” and the Anti-German Demonstrations of 1930 in Prague [Elektronische Daten] [Nancy Meriwether Wingfield] Film was a relatively new commercial-entertainment medium in the summer of 1930, and newerstill were the "talkies.” Unforeseen cultural difficulties accompanied the advent of sound films, to which spoken language gave an intrinsic national character. Language accentuated national differences in feeling and thought, and since audiences could no longer "naturalize” films, they could not adopt the imaginative content of sound films as their own "cultural territory.” American audiences mocked the nasal English accents in British films, while the British hissed American accents and Parisians greeted the first American ”talkie” with cries of "Speak French!” In Czechoslovakia, historical circumstances complicated popular reaction to sound films. With the founding of the state in 1918, Czechs had rejected their Austrian legacy and attempted to enforce a Czech character in all aspects of public life. Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 1998 Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press 29/1(1998-01), 113-138 0067-2378 29:1<113 1998 29 AHY https://doi.org/10.1017/S006723780001482X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S006723780001482X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wingfield Nancy Meriwether NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press 29/1(1998-01), 113-138 0067-2378 29:1<113 1998 29 AHY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge