Four video interviews on Czech history, literature and economy

• A video interview with Martin Pilař, Ostrava University, on 19th century Czech literatureHERE
• A video interview with Martin Myant on Czech economics since the fall of communism is HERE
• A video interview with Jan Čulík on Czech history is HERE
• A video interview with Jan Čulík on twentieth-century Czech literature is HERE

In all, there are more than forty different materials on Czech resources in Humbox, the British academic resource, see HERE

Regime Transition in Czechoslovakia

• 1968 Prague Spring - powerpoint presentation
• Czechoslovakia under Communism: popular opinion
• Czechoslovakia 1970 - 1989 with a powerpoint presentation
• Czech Political Culture in the 1990s
• Anti-Communism and Emotional Substitutes: (The sources of political legitimacy in the Czech Republic in the 1990s)
• How power makes or brakes political parties
• Pavel Kohout and Communism in Czechoslovakia
• Rising Discontent: The year 1999 in Review
• Andrew Stroehlein, Steven Saxonberg and Kazi Stastna, The Czech Republic 1992 to 1999: From unintentional political birth to prolonged political crisis
• Andrew Stroehlein, Czech Media, Czech politics and Czech culture - a selection of articles from 1998 - 1999
• Czech Media - a postcommunist model?
• Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic: Cultural Transition since 1989
• Czechoslovakia/Media - the Czech Republic: A General Overview, April 2002)

Material on Czech literature, culture and politics:

• Štefan Švec, The Crisis in Czech Literature: Some Superficial Marketing Twaddle
• Miroslav Holub (1923-1998)
• Josef Škvorecký (1924-)
• Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997)
• Arnošt Lustig (1926-)
• Václav Havel (1936 - )
• (Additional info:) Václav Havel (JČ 's article for The Scotsman, 1990)
• The Theatre of the Absurd
• (Additional info:) Václav Havel ( JČ's review of James Pontuso's monograph)

• Milan Kundera (1929-)
• Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Milan Kundera as a Young Stalinist
• Jakub Češka, "The process which turned Milan Kundera into an informer"

Czech Cinema

• Czech Feature Film Since 1989, a lecture given in Glasgow on 25th April, 2008.

  A related powerpoint presentation

• Czech Cinema, A brief general intro.

• The Prague Spring as reflected in Czech postcommunist cinema, with a related powerpoint presentation

Individual Films:

• Jízda (The Ride), director Jan Svěrák (1994)

• Silný kafe (Bitter Coffee), director Borkur Gunnarsson (2004)

• Horem pádem (Helter Skelter), director Jan Hřebejk (2004)

• Poslední motýl (The Last Butterfly), director Karel Kachyňa (1990)

• Kouř (Smoke), director Tomáš Vorel (1990)

• Nuda v Brně (Bored in Brno), director Vladimír Morávek (2003)

• Štěstí (Something Like Happiness), director Bohdan Sláma (2005)

• Babí léto (Indian Summer), director Vladimír Michálek (2001)

• Návrat idiota (Return of the Idiot), director Saša Gedeon (1999)

• Knoflíkáři (Buttoners), director Petr Zelenka (1997)

• Šílení (The Lunatics), director Jan Švankmajer (2005)
• Vratné lahve (Empties), director Jan Svěrák (2007)
• O rodičích a dětech (Of parents and children), director Vladimír Michálek (2008)
• Tajnosti (Secrets), director Alice Nellis (2007)