Velvet Retro

Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture

Veronika Pehe (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

190 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-140-1 (ISBN)

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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 in which a “retro” fascination with the past has proven compatible with a steadfast critique of the state socialist era. This innovative study locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.

Veronika Pehe is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where she leads the Research Group for Historical Transformation Studies.

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Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Returning to the Past

Chapter 1. Painting the Past Black and White: Czech Anticommunism after 1989

Chapter 2. The Past as Comedy: Representing Socialism in the 1990s

Chapter 3. The Late 1990s: Contesting the Past through Popular Culture

Chapter 4. Petty Heroism: Nostalgia for Resistance

Chapter 5. The Politics and Aesthetics of Retro

Chapter 6. Changing Memory Landscapes in the 2000s

Conclusion: Socialism Remembered

Bibliography

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Erscheinungsdatum	15.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Worlds of Memory
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80539-140-2 / 1805391402
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-140-1 / 9781805391401
Zustand	Neuware