Privatization Comedies as Media of Memory of the Czech(oslovak) Economic Transformation
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/b23366-15" target="_blank" >10.4324/b23366-15</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Privatization Comedies as Media of Memory of the Czech(oslovak) Economic Transformation
Original language description
This chapter makes a case for reading Czech feature films from the 1990s as ‘media of memory’ that continue to inform the imaginaries of the early neoliberal transformation in Czech culture. Based on a corpus of popular films that have come to be known as ‘privatization comedies’, the chapter analyses the myths these films have helped to sustain about the introduction of capitalism in Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic. The analysis focuses on their most significant economic tropes, especially the portrayal of private enterprise and its gender dimension. It argues that the films of the 1990s form one part of a larger memory mosaic and their emphasis on ordinary people and their individual struggles to grasp the rules of the market provides a counterpoint to both the negative memory promulgated in the Czech public sphere, which views the 1990s as a period of large-scale economic crime, and to the facile pop culture memory of that decade as a period of laughable oddities.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
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)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Remembering the Neoliberal Turn. Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989
ISBN
978-1-032-55333-7
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
201-216
Number of pages of the book
315
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
001140926700012