num_pages: 320
description: For thirty years, during the stalinist rule of the communists in Czechoslovakia, Gene Deitch was the only American citizen continuously living there who was completely free of control by the regime! Love and cartoon films made him stay, and he saw, heard, and personally experienced the life in those sealed-off Czech lands; a long-time fly s-eye view. No reporter, who flew in, contacted a few dissidents, and flew out again, could ever match his experience, insight, or personal adventures. His book, For The Love Of Prague, is part love story, part history, part a record of national lunacy, and part terror. It is all true, with real names, real people, and real incidents. The New York Times, in a two-thirds page illustrated story, hailed it as a spicy, funny memoir! 
  About the Author:
  
Gene Deitch is an Oscar-winning animation film director and scenarist. He is a voting member of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Scientists. In the early 1950s he was Creative Director of UPA s New York studio, where among his many gold-medal winning films were the famous Bert &amp; Harry Piels beer commercials. His TV commercials were the first ever shown at the New York Museum of Modern Art. In 1956 CBS purchased the Terrytoons animation studio and named Gene Deitch as its Creative Director. Under his supervision and direction, the studio produced 18 CinemaScope cartoons per year for 20th Century-Fox, and won its very first Oscar nomination. He personally created and directed the Tom Terrific series for the CBS nationwide Captain Kangaroo show. Tom Terrific, with Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, was the very first animated serial for network television. In 1958 he set up his own studio, Gene Deitch Associates, inc., in New York.
language: English
title: For the Love of Prague: The True Love Story of the Only Free American in Prague During 30 Years of Communism
titlecomplete: For the Love of Prague: The True Love Story of the Only Free American in Prague During 30 Years of Communism
genres: Czech Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 115
publisher: Baset