Velvet Retro : : Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture / / Veronika Pehe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Pehe, Veronika,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Worlds of Memory ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: Returning to the Past --; Chapter 1 Painting the Past Black and White: Czech Anticommunism after 1989 --; Chapter 2 The Past as Comedy: Representing Socialism in the 1990s --; Chapter 3 The Late 1990s: Contesting the Past through Popular Culture --; Chapter 4 Petty Heroism: Nostalgia for Resistance --; Chapter 5 The Politics and Aesthetics of Retro --; Chapter 6 Changing Memory Landscapes in the 2000s --; Conclusion: Socialism Remembered --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789206296; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789206296?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Veronika Pehe.

Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked “nostalgia” to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the Czech Republic and other contexts in which a “retro” fascination with the past has proven compatible with a steadfast critique of the state socialist era. This innovative study locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.