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082	0	4	_a943.7043
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aBren, Paulina _eautore
245	1	4	_aThe Greengrocer and His TV : _bThe Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring / _cPaulina Bren.
264		1	_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c[2011]
264		4	_c©2011
300			_a1 online resource (264 p.) : _b15 halftones
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction -- _t1. "A Criminal Comedy but of a Revivalist Spirit": The Beginning and the End of the Prague Spring -- _t2. Purge and the Remaking of a Socialist Citizenry -- _t3. Intellectuals, Hysterics, and "Real Men": The Prague Spring Officially Remembered -- _t4. The Quiet Life versus a Life in Truth: Writing the Script for Normalization -- _t5. Broadcasting in the Age of Late Communism -- _t6. Jaroslav Dietl: Normalization's Narrator -- _t7. The Socialist Family and Its Caretakers -- _t8. Self-Realization and the Socialist Way of Life -- _tConclusion -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aWinner, 2012 Council for European Studies Book AwardWinner, 2012 Center for Austrian Studies Book PrizeShortlist, 2011 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize (ASEEES)The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the medium to achieve "normalization," pitching television stars against political dissidents in a televised spectacle that defined the times.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. In focusing on the small screen, Paulina Bren looks to the "normal" of normalization, to the everyday experience of late communism. The figure central to this book is the greengrocer who, in a seminal essay by Václav Havel, symbolized the ordinary citizen who acquiesced to the communist regime out of fear.Bren challenges simplistic dichotomies of fearful acquiescence and courageous dissent to dramatically reconfigure what we know, or think we know, about everyday life under communism in the 1970s and 1980s. Deftly moving between the small screen, the street, and the Central Committee (and imaginatively drawing on a wide range of sources that include television shows, TV viewers' letters, newspapers, radio programs, the underground press, and the Communist Party archives), Bren shows how Havel's greengrocer actually experienced "normalization" and the ways in which popular television serials framed this experience.Now back by popular demand, socialist-era serials, such as The Woman Behind the Counter and The Thirty Adventures of Major Zeman, provide, Bren contends, a way of seeing-literally and figuratively-Czechoslovakia's normalization and Eastern Europe's real socialism.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650		0	_aCommunism and culture _zCzechoslovakia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPolitical culture _zCzechoslovakia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aTelevision and politics _zCzechoslovakia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aEurope.
650		4	_aHistory.
650		4	_aSoviet & East European History.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Europe / Eastern. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801462153
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801462153
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801462153/original
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