Instrumentalization of power influence on culture: about censorship in 1938–1953 Cover Image

Instrumentalizace mocenskeho vlivu na kulturu: o cenzure mezi lety 1918 az 1953
Instrumentalization of power influence on culture: about censorship in 1938–1953

Author(s): Dagmar Magincová
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Censorship; Czechoslovakia between 1918–1953; press law

Summary/Abstract: Censorship is one of the major manifestations of power across the society in public communication. It is a targeted institutional interference into the rights of authors or publishers, even regardless of the type of political organization of society. The study approaches the complexity of working of the mechanism of censorship through brief diachronic perspective; the particularity of censorship mechanisms then presents in particular historical period (1918–1953), characterized by a number of political and social milestones.

  • Issue Year: 17/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 33-46
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Czech