Jan Culik is Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He conducts research into social self-examination and myth-making in Central Europe, using literature, cinema and television as material culture.

"Jan Culik's book is an excellent, well-organized, thoughtful, informative, illuminating and thoroughly scholarly work. It is also easily accessible to the general readership. I fully recommend it." -- Josef kvorecky, Novelist. The Late Professor Emeritus of English and Film, University of Toronto"This is a remarkable contribution to the analysis of the value system disseminated by contemporary Czech cinema within Czech society." -- Professor Jiri Holy, Charles University, Prague"Culiks book is invaluable as a source of information on a national cinema that has long since receded from visibility." - Jonathan Owen, Department of Film Studies, University of St Andrews, Slavonic and East European Review (vol. 92, no. 1, January 2014).

Jan Culik is Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He conducts research into social self-examination and myth-making in Central Europe, using literature, cinema and television as material culture.

"Jan Culik's book is an excellent, well-organized, thoughtful, informative, illuminating and thoroughly scholarly work. It is also easily accessible to the general readership. I fully recommend it." -- Josef kvorecky, Novelist. The Late Professor Emeritus of English and Film, University of Toronto"This is a remarkable contribution to the analysis of the value system disseminated by contemporary Czech cinema within Czech society." -- Professor Jiri Holy, Charles University, Prague"Culiks book is invaluable as a source of information on a national cinema that has long since receded from visibility." - Jonathan Owen, Department of Film Studies, University of St Andrews, Slavonic and East European Review (vol. 92, no. 1, January 2014).

Jan Culik is Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He conducts research into social self-examination and myth-making in Central Europe, using literature, cinema and television as material culture.

"Jan Culik's book is an excellent, well-organized, thoughtful, informative, illuminating and thoroughly scholarly work. It is also easily accessible to the general readership. I fully recommend it." -- Josef kvorecky, Novelist. The Late Professor Emeritus of English and Film, University of Toronto"This is a remarkable contribution to the analysis of the value system disseminated by contemporary Czech cinema within Czech society." -- Professor Jiri Holy, Charles University, Prague"Culiks book is invaluable as a source of information on a national cinema that has long since receded from visibility." - Jonathan Owen, Department of Film Studies, University of St Andrews, Slavonic and East European Review (vol. 92, no. 1, January 2014).