An academic study of research literature on Czech television: The dawn of taking TV seriously
- 17 November 2020
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies
- Vol. 15 (4), 409-423
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1749602020948185
Abstract
In 2017 the first television studies university programme in the Czech Republic was officially opened at Palacký University in Olomouc. However, television has been a focus of Czech academics and television and film reviewers and practitioners for a long time. This review aims to introduce various forms of academic thinking about Czech and Czechoslovak television, published both in Czech and English. It distinguishes four academic and one insider position, based on institutional and disciplinary criteria. Additionally, the article points towards possible issues with trying to reflect on and teach television in a small, post-socialist East-Central European country where there is a limited number of original scholarly books, theoretical initiatives and translations of important texts from the field of TV studies. At the same time, the small size of the TV market, language barriers and the post-socialist heritage inform the local academic debate with specific research questions that have the potential of opening new perspectives on issues such as ideology, political power, mediated memory and globalisation.Keywords
Funding Information
- European Regional Development Fund (CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000734)
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