Privatization Comedies as Media of Memory of the Czech(oslovak) Economic Transformation

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Privatization Comedies as Media of Memory of the Czech(oslovak) Economic Transformation

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Privatization Comedies as Media of Memory of the Czech(oslovak) Economic Transformation

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Remembering the Neoliberal Turn. Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989

ISBN

978-1-032-55333-7

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

201-216

Počet stran knihy

315

Název nakladatele

Routledge

Místo vydání

London

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

001140926700012