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Author:

Bren, Paulina

Title:

The greengrocer and his TV : the culture of communism after the 1968 Prague Spring / Paulina Bren.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xiii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Czechoslovakia--Politics and government--1968-1989
Czechoslovakia--Social life and customs--20th century.
Czechoslovakia--Intellectual life--20th century.
Czechoslovakia--Influence.--Intervention, 1968--Influence.
Communism and culture--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
Political culture--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
Television and politics--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
Dietl, Jaroslav,--1929-1985--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index.

Contents:

"A criminal comedy but of a revivalist spirit" : the beginning and the end of the Prague Spring -- Purge and the remaking of a socialist citizenry -- Intellectuals, hysterics, and "real men" : the Prague Spring officially remembered -- The quiet life versus a life in truth : writing the script for normalization -- Broadcasting in the age of late communism -- Jaroslav Dietl : normalization's narrator -- The socialist family and its caretakers -- Self-realization and the socialist way of life.

ISBN:

9780801476426
0801476429
0801447674 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801447679 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)475444326

LCCN:

2009034776

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)