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Velvet Retro : Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture / Veronika Pehe.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Worlds of Memory ; 2Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789206289
  • 9781789206296
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.09 22
LOC classification:
  • DB2244.7 .P44 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Returning to the Past -- Chapter 1 Painting the Past Black and White: Czech Anticommunism after 1989 -- Chapter 2 The Past as Comedy: Representing Socialism in the 1990s -- Chapter 3 The Late 1990s: Contesting the Past through Popular Culture -- Chapter 4 Petty Heroism: Nostalgia for Resistance -- Chapter 5 The Politics and Aesthetics of Retro -- Chapter 6 Changing Memory Landscapes in the 2000s -- Conclusion: Socialism Remembered -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked “nostalgia” to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the Czech Republic and other contexts in which a “retro” fascination with the past has proven compatible with a steadfast critique of the state socialist era. This innovative study locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Returning to the Past -- Chapter 1 Painting the Past Black and White: Czech Anticommunism after 1989 -- Chapter 2 The Past as Comedy: Representing Socialism in the 1990s -- Chapter 3 The Late 1990s: Contesting the Past through Popular Culture -- Chapter 4 Petty Heroism: Nostalgia for Resistance -- Chapter 5 The Politics and Aesthetics of Retro -- Chapter 6 Changing Memory Landscapes in the 2000s -- Conclusion: Socialism Remembered -- Bibliography -- Index

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Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked “nostalgia” to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the Czech Republic and other contexts in which a “retro” fascination with the past has proven compatible with a steadfast critique of the state socialist era. This innovative study locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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