This article is based on research done as part of Sci-fEAST: the Science
Fiction Genre in Central and Eastern Europe project initiated by the students
of Charles University in Prague and continued also by the academic staff of
the University of Łódź since September 2012. The goal of the project was to
create a comprehensive database of science fiction films specific for particular
national cinemas and so far all of the Czech and Polish full-length feature
films have been collected. It is planned that the Hungarians and Slovaks will
join the project as well, adding to the database both works of Hungarian cinema
and films made after the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia. The http://www.
sci-feast.eu webpage, also available in English, is being gradually updated as
new TV-productions as well as short-feature films are added. The latter, especially
in the case of Polish cinema, constitute a significant part of all the works
of the genre. This freely accessible database provides descriptions of the films
together with technical data and a short synopsis of the plot, but its intended
purpose is to be a discussion platform (of thought exchange) between the
particular universities and scholar communities.This book was financially supported by the National Programme for the Development of Humanities: project “Cinema: Intercultural Perspective. Western-European Cinema in Poland, Polish Cinema in Western Europe. Mutual Perception of Film Cultures (1918–1939)”
