The greengrocer and his TV
Subtitle: the culture of communism after the 1968 Prague Spring
By: Paulina Bren.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780801447679
Subjects: Dietl, Jaroslav, -- 1929-1985 -- Criticism and interpretation; Communism and culture -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- 20th century; Political culture -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- 20th century; Television and politics -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- 20th century; Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government -- 1968-1989; Czechoslovakia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Czechoslovakia -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Czechoslovakia -- History -- Intervention, 1968 -- Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A criminal comedy but of a revivalist spirit" : the beginning and the end of the Prague Spring; title: Purge and the remaking of a socialist citizenry; title: Intellectuals, hysterics, and "real men" : the Prague Spring officially remembered; title: The quiet life versus a life in truth : writing the script for normalization; title: Broadcasting in the age of late communism; title: Jaroslav Dietl : normalization's narrator; title: The socialist family and its caretakers; title: Self-realization and the socialist way of life.