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050	0	0	_aDB2228 _b.G744 2010
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aBren, Paulina. _e1
245	1	0	_aThe greengrocer and his TV : _bthe culture of communism after the 1968 Prague Spring / _cPaulina Bren.
260			_aIthaca, [N.Y. : _bCornell University Press, _c(c)2010.
300			_a1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
340			_2rdacc _0http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003
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505	0	0	_a"A criminal comedy but of a revivalist spirit" : the beginning and the end of the Prague Spring -- _tPurge and the remaking of a socialist citizenry -- _tIntellectuals, hysterics, and "real men" : the Prague Spring officially remembered -- _tThe quiet life versus a life in truth : writing the script for normalization -- _tBroadcasting in the age of late communism -- _tJaroslav Dietl : normalization's narrator -- _tThe socialist family and its caretakers -- _tSelf-realization and the socialist way of life.
520	0		_aThe 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 1970s and 1980s. 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.
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600	1	0	_aDietl, Jaroslav, _d1929-1985 _xCriticism and interpretation.
600	1	1	_aDietl, Jaroslav, _d1929-1985 _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		0	_aCommunism and culture _zCzechoslovakia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPolitical culture _zCzechoslovakia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aTelevision and politics _zCzechoslovakia _xHistory _y20th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=673648&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell