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The Greengrocer and His TV : The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801462153
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Greengrocer and His TVDDC classification:
  • 943.704/3
LOC classification:
  • DB2228
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "A Criminal Comedy but of a Revivalist Spirit": The Beginning and the End of the Prague Spring -- 2. Purge and the Remaking of a Socialist Citizenry -- 3. Intellectuals, Hysterics, and "Real Men": The Prague Spring Officially Remembered -- 4. The Quiet Life versus a Life in Truth: Writing the Script for Normalization -- 5. Broadcasting in the Age of Late Communism -- 6. Jaroslav Dietl: Normalization's Narrator -- 7. The Socialist Family and Its Caretakers -- 8. Self-Realization and the Socialist Way of Life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The Greengrocer and His TV offers a new cultural history of communism from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution that reveals how state-endorsed ideologies were played out on television, particularly through soap opera-like serials.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "A Criminal Comedy but of a Revivalist Spirit": The Beginning and the End of the Prague Spring -- 2. Purge and the Remaking of a Socialist Citizenry -- 3. Intellectuals, Hysterics, and "Real Men": The Prague Spring Officially Remembered -- 4. The Quiet Life versus a Life in Truth: Writing the Script for Normalization -- 5. Broadcasting in the Age of Late Communism -- 6. Jaroslav Dietl: Normalization's Narrator -- 7. The Socialist Family and Its Caretakers -- 8. Self-Realization and the Socialist Way of Life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Greengrocer and His TV offers a new cultural history of communism from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution that reveals how state-endorsed ideologies were played out on television, particularly through soap opera-like serials.

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