Lucie Cesalkova is an Associate Professor at the Department of Film Studies, Charles University, and an editor at Prague’s 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.