Command Celebrities: The Rise and Fall of Hanzelka and Zikmund

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Command Celebrities: The Rise and Fall of Hanzelka and Zikmund

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

In the 1950s and 1960s, the travellers, explorers, authors, and filmmakers Jiří Hanzelka and Miroslav Zikmund became celebrities both in Czechoslovakia and abroad. the Communist cultural authorities actively supported the transformation of the two men into cultural icons, which could be exploited as a model for the suppression of 'old', 'decadent', and indeed 'popular' culture, and as a tool for recruiting members of the intellectual, cultural, and social elites into its service. Hanzelka and Zikmund's multimedia travelogues, as well as their dashing public personae, blended in a unique way the 'high' and 'low', the accessible and unreachable, the familiar and the exotic, in the officially promoted culture of the time. But in the later 1960s, as Hanzelka and Zikmund's political loyalties towards some form of reform socialism became more blatant, the two men fell into disfavour, and they found themselves banished from the public sphere following the events of 1968 until the regime fell in 1989. this article investigates how the curious 'command celebrity' of 'H&Z' straddled socialist ideology and capitalist consumerism, political affirmation and cultural critique.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Command Celebrities: The Rise and Fall of Hanzelka and Zikmund

Popis výsledku anglicky

In the 1950s and 1960s, the travellers, explorers, authors, and filmmakers Jiří Hanzelka and Miroslav Zikmund became celebrities both in Czechoslovakia and abroad. the Communist cultural authorities actively supported the transformation of the two men into cultural icons, which could be exploited as a model for the suppression of 'old', 'decadent', and indeed 'popular' culture, and as a tool for recruiting members of the intellectual, cultural, and social elites into its service. Hanzelka and Zikmund's multimedia travelogues, as well as their dashing public personae, blended in a unique way the 'high' and 'low', the accessible and unreachable, the familiar and the exotic, in the officially promoted culture of the time. But in the later 1960s, as Hanzelka and Zikmund's political loyalties towards some form of reform socialism became more blatant, the two men fell into disfavour, and they found themselves banished from the public sphere following the events of 1968 until the regime fell in 1989. this article investigates how the curious 'command celebrity' of 'H&Z' straddled socialist ideology and capitalist consumerism, political affirmation and cultural critique.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2015

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Central Europe

ISSN

1479-0963

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

13

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

72-86

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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