04780nam 2200721 a 450 991078124620332120230817171432.09780801462146(ebook)0-8014-6214-20-8014-6215-010.7591/9780801462153(CKB)2550000000036217(OCoLC)732956588(CaPaEBR)ebrary10467987(SSID)ssj0000537287(PQKBManifestationID)11314640(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537287(PQKBWorkID)10554140(PQKB)10082458(MiAaPQ)EBC3138108(DE-B1597)527055(DE-B1597)9780801462153(MdBmJHUP)muse58413(Au-PeEL)EBL3138108(CaPaEBR)ebr10467987(CaONFJC)MIL769564(dli)heb40036.0001.001(MiU)MIU400360001001(EXLCZ)99255000000003621720090821d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe greengrocer and his TV the culture of communism after the 1968 Prague Spring /Paulina BrenIthaca, [N.Y.] Cornell University Press20101 online resource (xiii, 250 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8014-7642-9 0-8014-4767-4 Includes bibliographical references and index."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.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 1970's and 1980's. 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.Communism and cultureCzechoslovakiaHistory20th centuryPolitical cultureCzechoslovakiaHistory20th centuryTelevision and politicsCzechoslovakiaHistory20th centuryCzechoslovakiaPolitics and government1968-1989CzechoslovakiaSocial life and customs20th centuryCzechoslovakiaIntellectual life20th centuryCzechoslovakiaHistoryIntervention, 1968InfluenceCommunism and cultureHistoryPolitical cultureHistoryTelevision and politicsHistory943.704/3Bren Paulina1503294MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781246203321The greengrocer and his TV3731585UNINA01025nam0-2200313 --450 991102717940332120250925144128.020250925d1953----kmuy0itay5050 baitagerITa 001yyConcetti fondamentali della storia dell'artela formazione dello stile nell'arte modernadi Heinrich WölfflinMilanoLonganesi & C.1953495 p., 62 c. di tav.19 cm<<I >>cento libri32001Kunstgeschichtliche GrundbegriffeDas Problem der Stilentwicklung in der Neueren Kunst16040ArteStoriaArteSec. 19.EsteticaSec. 19.ArteSec. 15.-17.709.04Wölfflin,Heinrich395630ITUNINAREICATUNIMARCBK9911027179403321DE FUSCO 1237RDF 1290DARSTDARSTKunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe16040UNINA