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

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

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

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

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

ISBN

978-90-04-68982-4

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

297-309

Počet stran knihy

443

Název nakladatele

Brill

Místo vydání

Leiden

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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