Velvet retro : postsocialist nostalgia and the politics of heroism in Czech popular culture /

"Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked "nostalgia" to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the Czech Republic and other contexts i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pehe, Veronika (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn, 2020.
Series:Worlds of memory ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Since 1989
Collective memory > Czech Republic.
Popular culture > Political aspects > Czech Republic.
National characteristics, Czech.
Czechs.
Mémoire collective > République tchèque.
Culture populaire > Aspect politique > République tchèque.
Tchèques.
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
HISTORY / Social History
Collective memory.
Politics and government.
Popular culture > Political aspects.
Czech Republic > Politics and government > 1993-
Czechoslovakia > History > Velvet Revolution, 1989.
République tchèque > Politique et gouvernement > 1993-
Czech Republic.
Czechoslovakia.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Returning to the Past
  • Painting the Past Black and White: Czech Anticommunism after
  • The Past as Comedy: Representing Socialism in the 1990s
  • The Late 1990s: Contesting the Past through Popular Culture
  • Petty Heroism: Nostalgia for Resistance
  • The Politics and Aesthetics of Retro
  • Changing Memory Landscapes in the 2000s
  • Socialism Remembered.

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