All Quiet on the Domestic Front? Ways of Dealing with Anxiety in Late Socialist Czechoslovak Media

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004689831_017" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004689831_017</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

All Quiet on the Domestic Front? Ways of Dealing with Anxiety in Late Socialist Czechoslovak Media

Original language description

Our aim in this chapter is to discuss a distinctive feature of the late socialist Czechoslovak media - specific ways of dealing with anxiety in the media, from its avoidance to its use in depictions of foreign countries or domestic social groups perceived as problematic to control. This can be documented in many ways, starting from only limited and brief reporting of accidents, disasters and violent crime and finishing with probably the most emblematic popular TV series avoiding topics related to anything threatening or unsettling to the viewer. In the second part of the selected period, we observe a gradual evaporation of this model. The new media regime then started to focus on the malfunctions in socialist society. Their new aim was to provide reflection for Czechoslovak society to reconstruct itself once again according to the socialist lines. In general terms, we argue that the anxiety-related information in the media followed two distinct regimes that differed in the selected period in the context these evoked. In the 1970s, disquieting information concerned mostly the West, while in the 1980s it started to increasingly deal with domestic topics. The anxiety-free media production of the 1970s nevertheless continued to be transmitted in the 1980s and both regimes existed in parallel. Our chapter aims thus to question these different regimes, levels and layers of anxiety in ČSSR media.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Exciting News! Event, Narration and Impact from Past to Present

ISBN

978-90-04-68982-4

Number of pages of the result

13

Pages from-to

297-309

Number of pages of the book

443

Publisher name

Brill

Place of publication

Leiden

UT code for WoS chapter

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