Bibliograph

The Greengrocer and His TV, The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring

Type

Label

The Greengrocer and His TV, The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring

Language

eng

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Greengrocer and His TV

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "A Criminal Comedy but of a Revivalist Spirit": The Beginning and the End of the Prague Spring -- 2. Purge and the Remaking of a Socialist Citizenry -- 3. Intellectuals, Hysterics, and "Real Men": The Prague Spring Officially Remembered -- 4. The Quiet Life versus a Life in Truth: Writing the Script for Normalization -- 5. Broadcasting in the Age of Late Communism -- 6. Jaroslav Dietl: Normalization's Narrator -- 7. The Socialist Family and Its Caretakers -- 8. Self-Realization and the Socialist Way of Life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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