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Zusatztext Well-researched ... A substantial point of reference to any scholar interested in studying media history and public communication in Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century. Informationen zum Autor Martin Štoll is Professor at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He specializes in documentary film, history and theory; television studies and historical contexts of television broadcasting. He lectured at universities in Great Britain, Finland, Poland and Slovakia, he was Principal of the Literary Academy (The Josef Škvorecký Private College). He also worked as commissioning editor for Czech Television and has directed fifty-five documentary films. Vorwort The first comprehensive history of Czechoslovak television from the first democratic republic to the fall of communism. Zusammenfassung The story of Czechoslovak television is in many respects typical of the cultural and political developments in Central Europe, behind the Iron Curtain. Martin Štoll, with unprecedented access to the Military Historical Archives in Prague, provides contextual insights into the issues of introducing television in the whole Socialist Bloc (save China, Mongolia and Cuba), from the introduction of television broadcasting in Czechoslovakia in 1921 through to the 1968 occupation and the Velvet Revolution in 1989 – encapsulating an important point in media history within two totalitarian states. Television and Totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia examines the variability of political interests as reflected on television in interwar Czechoslovakia, including Nazi research on television technology in the Czech borderlands (Sudetenland), the quarrel over the outcomes of this research as war booty with the Red Army, the beginning of the Czechoslovak technological journey, and, finally, the institutionalized foundation of Czechoslovak television, including the first years of its broadcasting as a manifestation of Communist propaganda. Revised and expanded from the Czech to include broader contexts for an English-speaking audience, Štoll expertly elucidates the historical, cultural, social, political, and technological frameworks to provide the first comprehensive study of the subject. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Part One: Why Don't We Have Television? 1 - Radio Context: One Million Listeners2 - Pioneers of Television3 - Television as Political Matter Part Two: Will Television be Based on Nazi Devices? 4 - In the Hands of the Military5 - Post-war Uncertainty Part Three: Television Should Serve Communist Ideology 6 - Context of Soviet Patterns in the Television Space of the Eastern Bloc7 - TV Birth in Stalinism8 - Experimental Broadcasting9 - Television and Political Communication10 - Birth of the TV Nation11 - Occupation in 196812 - Television as the Last Instrument of Power Part Four: Toward Public Service 13 - Television as a Participant of the Velvet Revolution14 - Birth of the Public BroadcasterConclusionAppendixBibliographyIndex...
