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" Television and Totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia : "
Martin Štoll.
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BL
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852160
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Štoll, Martin,1973-
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Television and Totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia : : from the first Democratic Republic to the fall of communism /\ Martin Štoll.
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New York, NY :: Bloomsbury Academic,, 2019.
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, ©2019
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xxi, 279 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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1501324756
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1501324764
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1501324780
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9781501324765
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9781501324789
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The silent majorities, Sovietization, and 'life within a lie' -- Prelude: television as a concept between democracy and Nazism. Radio context : among the first in Europe -- Pioneers of television -- Television as a political matter -- In the hands of the military -- The main act : television should serve the Communist ideology -- Context of Soviet approaches in the televisual space of the Eastern Bloc -- New totalitarianism on the horizon -- The birth of television in Stalinist Czechoslovakia -- On its own feet -- The birth of a TV nation -- Occupation in 1968 : we keep broadcasting! -- Television as the last instrument of power -- Television as a participant of the Velvet Revolution -- Coda : towards public service. The birth of a public broadcaster.
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The story of Czechoslovak television is in many respects typical of the cultural and political development in Central Europe, behind the Iron Curtain. Martin Stoll, with unprecedented access to the Military Historical Archive in Prague, provides contextual insights into the issues of introducing television in the whole Socialist Bloc (save China, Mongolia and Cuba), from the introduction of television broadcasting in Czechoslovakia in 1921 through to the 1968 occupation and the Velvet revolution in 1989 - encapsulating an important point in media history within two totalitarian states. Television and Totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia examines the variability of political interests as reflected on television in interwar Czechoslovakia, including Nazi research on television technology in the Czech borderlands (Sudetenland), the quarrel over the outcomes of this research as war booty with the Red Army, the beginning of the Czechoslovak technological journey, and, finally, the institutionalized foundation of Czechoslovak television, including the first years of its broadcasting as a manifestation of Communist propaganda. Revised and expanded from the Czech to include broader contexts for an English-speaking audience, Stoll expertly elucidates the historical, cultural, social, political, and technological frameworks to provide the first comprehensive study of the subject.
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Broadcasting policy-- Czechoslovakia-- History-- 20th century.
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Television broadcasting-- Czechoslovakia-- History-- 20th century.
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Broadcasting policy.
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Fernsehsender
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Politics and government.
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Rundfunk
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Rundfunkpolitik
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Television broadcasting.
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Czechoslovakia, Politics and government.
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Czechoslovakia.
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Tschechoslowakei
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| Dewey Classification
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384.5509437/0904
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HE8700.9.C94S76 2019
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