The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies

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Kořínek, Pavel
Self-regulation and self-censorship. Comics Creators in Czechoslovakia and Communist Eastern Bloc.
The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020 - (Aldama, F.), s. 239-255. Oxford Handbooks. ISBN 978-0-19-091794-4
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378068
Klíčová slova: Czech Comics * Central and Eastern Europe * Censorship * Form and content
Obor OECD: Specific literatures

Building on several examples from Czechoslovak comics of the 20th century, this chapter aims to point out various ways in which censorship and self-censoring practices influenced the local invariant of comics production on the formative level. During the period in question (1948–1989), there were no explicitly formulated and/or written rules delineating what was allowed and what was not, and the uncertain notion of “acceptability” (in connection with totalitarian ideological authorities and political institutions) was merely a construct of to a degree shared awareness of comics creators. To be able to publish comics without persecution, they came out with various self-defensive strategies both on form-related as well as on content-related level. At the end of the chapter, some of these strategies are outlined and a short discussion of their transnational, region-wide occurrence is included.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0311839