People in the City of Coal and Steel: Visual Analysis of an Exemplary Socialist Town
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://ceskylid.avcr.cz/en/article/itm-2755861" target="_blank" >https://ceskylid.avcr.cz/en/article/itm-2755861</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21104/CL.2023.2.02" target="_blank" >10.21104/CL.2023.2.02</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
People in the City of Coal and Steel: Visual Analysis of an Exemplary Socialist Town
Original language description
Ostrava, which used to be nicknamed the “steel heart of the republic”, was an important industrial centre during and after socialism. The city’s official visual presentation of itself during socialism was that of a happy life in an urban environment where it is already possible to catch glimpses of a glorious future facilitated by industrialization and its related transformations to the city’s everyday life and landscape. In this paper, I present a visual analysis of the official discourse about Ostrava and everyday life there. I then confront the constituent elements of this visually produced urban landscape with distinctly more ambivalent testimonies by artistic photographers from the same period. The aim is to comprehend the basic compositional elements that furnished the multilayered image of an industrial city and people’s roles there and use the two contrasting imageries of Ostrava’s urban landscape to inquire into the relationship between urban landscape and visual discourse.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Český lid
ISSN
0009-0794
e-ISSN
2570-9216
Volume of the periodical
110
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
157-182
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85164739768