Jan Culik´s page at Glasgow University

Books

Jan Culik, Jaci jsme: Ceska spolecnost v hranem filmu devadesatych a nultych let [What we are like: Czech society in feature film of the 1990s and 2000s]

Host, Brno, 2007, 656 pp.

ISBN 978–80–7294–254–1.

First ever published monograph on Czech feature film 1989 - 2007. Table of content and a sample chapter (summarising the principal characteristics of Czech society, as seen through Czech feature film) is here (in Czech).

Publication date: November 2007. The monograph is available for purchase from here. A lecture in English, summarising some main points from the monograph, is here. English translations of selected chapters from the book, dealing with individual films, will be gradually published here and here.





  • Jaromír Ostrý of Radio Brno, Czech Republic, interviews Jan Culik (programme was broadcast on 28th January, 2008) Listen HERE

    • Jiri Holy, Writers under Siege. Czech Literature since 1945

    This is the first history of Czech Literature, published in English, in more than 30 years (since the publication of Arne Novak´s "Czech Literature" in 1976). The history, written by Jiri Holy, Professor of Czech Literature at Charles University, Prague, has been translated by Elizabeth Morrison and Jan Culik, who has also edited the volume.

    Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 360 pp.

    ISBN: 978-1-84519-190-0 h/b

    Publication date: November 2007. Book is available from here



    Jak Ceši bojují [How Czechs Fight]

    Selection of texts from Britské listy Czech-language cultural and political journal, on Czech politics, media, literature and culture

    Edited and co-written by Jan Culik.

    Other contributors: Radek Mokrý, Fabiano Golgo, Št?pán Kotrba, Kathryn Murphy, Jakub Žytek, Jan Paul,

    Libri, Prague, 2003, 704 pp,

    ISBN 80-72772-24-4. The complete work is available in digital form HERE (pdf, 8,3 Mb). In paper form, available from here.



    Jan Culik, Tomas Pecina, V hlavnich zpravach: Televize

    An analysis - in Czech - of the rebellion at Czech (public service) TV in December 2000 - January 2001 and its underlying causes.

    ISV Publishers and Britske listy, Prague, 2001.

    ISBN 80-85866-78-1. 366 pp. The complete work is available in digital form HERE (pdf, 1,5 Mb).





    Jak Cesi jednaji

    The second book of selections (in Czech) from the Czech language internet daily Britske listy came out in mid-May 2000.

    Full bibliographical details: Jan Culik, ...jak Cesi jednaji, Milenium Publishing, Chomutov, 2000, 580 pp., ISBN 80-86201-17-1.

    A substantial part of the book deals with attempts at reform of news and current affairs on Czech Television; the volume also deals with the reactions by a gathering of Prague intellectuals to John Keane' s life of Vaclav Havel, there are sections on Czech politics and culture. A preface to the publications, outlining the content of the book is here (in Czech), a full Table of Contents is here, the book cover is here.





    Jak Cesi mysli

    Jak Cesi mysli: Selections from the internet daily Britske listy, dealing with the Czech media, politics and culture (in Czech).

    Further details about the contents of the publication are here (in Czech).

    Milenium Publishing,

    Chomutov, 1999,

    478. pp., ISBN 80-86201-14-7.



    Jan Culik, Knihy za ohradou: Ceska literatura v exilových nakladatelstvích 1971-1989 (Books behind the Fence: Czech Literature in Emigré Publishing Houses)

    The first ever published monograph on Czech emigré literature. The complete work is available in digital form HERE

    Trizonia, Prague, 1991, 420 pp. ISBN 80-900953-8-0.





    Articles and other material

    Jan Culík, Milan Kundera as a Young Stalinist

    Article dealing with this issue is here

  • Czech media, Czech politics and Czech culture:



    • A selection of English language articles, mostly published in the Czech internet-daily Britske listy and in the English language internet weekly Central Europe Review in 1996 - 1999.

  • Czech Media: 2002

    • A general overview (with statistical information) on the current state of the Czech Media. Written by Jan Culik for the EU "Euromedia" Handbook in April 2002.

  • The Czech media now - a postcommunist model?

    • A summary of the current state of affairs in the Czech media - detailing the story of Vladimír Zelezný and Nova TV, problems within Czech TV and the situation within the Czech newspapers, with examples of work by some of the Czech media (the text comprises some 17 000 words) by Jan Culik. (20th November 2001)

  • How government officials operate

    • Collected evasions Kamil Cermak, a spokesperson of Czech former Trade and Industry Minister Vladimir Dlouhy and an unsuccessful candidate for the post of Chief Executive of Czech Television (January 2000) is in Real Audio are here (in Czech) (This is a half-an-hour radio programme, made in 1995 and broadcast by Prague´s Radio Alfa in April and May 1995.)

  • The Czech Republic 1992 to 1999

    • A CER feature, marking the tenth anniversary of the fall of communism. Written by Andrew Stroehlein with Jan Culik, Steven Saxonberg and Kazi Stastna.
  • Britske listy, a Czech language internet daily, specialising in confronting ideas between the Czech Republic and the West, edited by Jan Culik
  • For information about the Czech Republic, its media, its laws and its institutions, use the directory seznam.cz (in Czech)

    Older material

  • In a polemic with Jan Culik, (former) Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus warns against the Internet (31st May, 1997)
  • "Is Klaus's package of economic measures going to be effective?" An analysis by Martin Myant of Paisley University, Great Britain (22nd April, 1997)
  • Klausuv "Balicek opatreni" a ceske hospodarstvi (Frantisek Nepil, Londyn, 1.5.1997)

    Czech day at Glasgow University (14th March 1997)

  • What is going on in Czech politics (Jan Culik)
  • Is the Czech economic transformation over? (Martin Myant)

    Czech Literature

  • Czech emigré literature - an attempt at a definition (Jan Culik, 1995)
  • Czech literature and culture: the long shadow of the curse of the Prague Spring (Jan Culik, BASEES 1999)
  • Czech Literature in the 1990s: A lecture, given in English at Glasgow University by Dr. Jiri Holy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

    Media Studies/ Sdelovaci prostredky v CR

  • Commercial TV in the Czech Republic: the state of play, as it was in 1997: Central European Media Enterprises, Ronald Lauder, Mark Palmer, Vladimir Zelezny, NOVA TV, the Czech Council for Radio and TV broadcasting and the Czech Republic: (For later developments, especially since 1999, see Jan Culik's regular contributions in Central Europe Review, for full background to the history of TV Nova, see also this article by Jan Culik from 1997, written for Transitions.)
  • Older material: Problems with Czech TV stations / Problemy s ceskymi televizemi: Material in Czech/ Dokumenty v cestine
  • Older articles, dealing with the media / Starsi clanky o sdelovacich prostredcich (JC)

    More older articles

    Literature and political culture:

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