Petr Szczepanik

CZECH REPUBLIC

Petr Szczepanik is an associate professor at Charles University, Prague; a researcher at the National Film Archive, Prague; and editor of Iluminace. He is the author of Canned Words: The Coming of Sound Film and Czech Media Culture of the 1930s (in Czech: Konzervy se slovy. Počátky zvukového filmu a česká mediální kultura 30. let, 2009). He has edited or co-edited six books on the history of film thought, including Cinema All the Time: An Anthology of Czech Film Theory and Criticism, 1908–1939 (2008). His current research focuses on the Czech (post)socialist production system. Some of its findings are published in Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Culture (Palgrave, coedited with Patrick Vonderau, 2013). He was the principal coordinator of an EU-funded FIND project, which used student internships at production companies to combine job shadowing with ethnographic research of production cultures. In 2015, he was the main author of the first post-1989 industry report on Czech film production, focusing on practices of screenplay and project development (in Czech: Studie vývoje českého hraného kinematografického díla, Czech State Film Fund, 2015).