ZURn6215 Transformations of Czech Journalism in the Protectorate

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2024

The course is not taught in Spring 2024

Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Pavel Večeřa, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Pavel Večeřa, Ph.D.
Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Bc. Pavlína Brabcová
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! ZUR523 Czech Journalism 1939-45
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to acquaint the students with the changes of the Czech legal protectorate journalism and the mechanisms of its control by the Protectorate and Occupational Authorities. Secondary course follows the theme of political, administrative, economic and cultural development of the Protectorate from its inception through the period 1939-1941, I. and II. heydrichium, the era of Franco's depolitization strategy until the end of the years 1944-1945.
The course concentrates on the press measures of the protectorate and occupation authorities and the censorship practice during this period, on the structure of control of the press and the form of censorship. The focus of the course is journalism activism, as well as the process of key journalistic activists, as well as the tactics of collaborating conformist journalists. Transformations of Protectorate Journalism are demonstrated on the shifts in the reflection of the war and the war adversaries of Germany, foreign policy, internal political development, the reflection of national identity, the relationship between Czechs and Germans and resistance, but also the optics of anti-Semitic rhetoric on the pages of the Protectorate Press.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to:
- orientate in the history of Czech printed media in 1939-1945
- focus on the issues of the German occupation of the Czech lands and the phenomenon of collaboration
- analyze printed media production
- analyze period propaganda
Syllabus
  • 1. Introductory Lessons
  • 2. II. Republic
  • 3. The origin of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
  • 4. Press relations and censorship practices
  • 5. Manifestation of Czech. Formation of the National Assembly
  • 6. The phenomenon of collaboration
  • 7. Journalistic collaboration in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
  • 8. Antisemitic rhetoric on the pages of the Protectorate Press
  • 9. Changes of Czech national identity in 1939-1941
  • 10. The image of the Germans, the Empire, National Socialism and A. Hitler
  • 11. Persecution after the assassination of Heydrich
Literature
  • • Pasák, Tomáš: Český fašismus 1922-1945 a kolaborace 1939-1945. Práh, Praha 1999
  • Röhr, Werner: Kollaboration. Sachvervalt und Begriff. Methodische Überlegung auf der Grundlage vergleichender Forschungen zur Okkupationspolitik der Achsenmächte im Zweiten Weltkrieg. In: Tauber, Joachim (ed.): „Kollaboration“ in Nordosteuropa. Erschei
  • Kokoška, Stanislav: Odboj, kolaborace, přizpůsobení… Několik poznámek k významu české protektorátní společnosti. In: Soudobé dějiny. Odboj, kolaborace, přizpůsobení. XVII/1-2. Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, Praha 2010, s. 9-30
  • Večeřa, Pavel: Ošemetné Scylly a zrádné Charybdy protektorátních novinářů. K projevům pasivní rezistence a kolaborace na stránkách českých tištěných médií za německé okupace (1939-1945). In: Mediální studia 3, 2007, 252-271
  • BEDNAŘÍK, Petr, Jan JIRÁK and Barbara KÖPPLOVÁ. Dějiny českých médií : od počátku do současnosti. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 2011, 439 s. ISBN 9788024730288. URL info
  • KONČELÍK, Jakub, Pavel VEČEŘA and Petr ORSÁG. Dějiny českých médií 20. století. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2010, 310, xxxii. ISBN 9788073676988. info
  • BRANDES, Detlef and Petr DVOŘÁČEK. Češi pod německým protektorátem : okupační politika, kolaborace a odboj 1939-1945. Vyd. 1. Praha: Prostor, 1999, 657 s. ISBN 8072600176. info
  • PASÁK, Tomáš. Pod ochranou říše. Praha: Práh, 1970, 401 s. info
Teaching methods
lecture, seminar
Assessment methods
analysis of assigned tasks, preparation of papers
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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