The greengrocer and his TV : the culture of communism after the 1968 Prague Spring
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.
History
1 online resource (xiii, 250 p.) illustrations
9780801447679, 9780801476426, 9780801462153, 0801447674, 0801476429, 0801462150
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"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
"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
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