Jan Čulík (born 2 November 1952 in

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) is a Czech academic and independent journalist. He is the founder and editor of the independent Czech

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daily ''

Britské listy ''Britské listy'' is a Czech-language cultural and political internet daily. It is published by a reader-financed NGO Britske Listy o.s. () based in Prague. The website was founded in July 1996 by Jan Čulík, Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies ...

'' since 1996.

Early career

Čulík is a graduate of

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and

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at the Faculty of Arts,

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(1977, PhDr 1978.) In the 1980s, he worked as a

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in the

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, making films for

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. He also worked with a number of Czech

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organisations in the West, helping to disseminate information about pre-1989 oppression in

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. Beginning in 1989, Čulík worked as an investigative journalist for the Czech service of

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Recent activity

Čulík is Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies at the

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, and the author of several publications in this field, including the first detailed study of Czech émigré literature, ''Books behind the Fence: Czech Literature in Émigré Publishing Houses 1971-1989'', and a series of collections of articles from ''Britské Listy'': ''Jak Češi Myslí'' (How Czechs Think), ''Jak Češi Jednají'' (How Czechs Act), ''Jak Češi Bojují'' (How Czechs Fight) and ''V Hlavních zprávách: Televize'' (On the Main News: Television). In November 2007, he published an extensive monograph about Czech cinema since the

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. In November 2012, he published a monograph dealing with the stereotypes disseminated by post-communist Czech feature film entitled ''A Society in Distress: The Image of the Czech Republic in Contemporary Czech Feature Film'', and in September 2013 he published, in cooperation with six other international scholars, a monograph entitled ''National Mythologies in Central European TV Series: How J.R. won the Cold War''.

Books

*1985 - ''Orpheus Through the Ages: An Introduction to the History of the Orpheus Myth'', Channel Four Television Limited, London, *1991 - ''Knihy za ohradou: Česká literatura v exilových nakladatelstvích 1971-1989'' (Books Behind the Fence: Czech Literature in Émigré Publishing Houses 1971–1989), Trizonia Publishers, Prague *November 2007 - ''Jací jsme: Česká společnost v hraném filmu devadesátých a nultých let'' (What we are like: Czech society in feature film of the 1990s and 2000s), Host, Brno, *November 2012 - ''A Society in Distress: The Image of the Czech Republic in Contemporary Czech Feature Film'', Sussex Academic Press, *September 2013 - ''National Mythologies in Central European TV Series: How J.R. won the Cold War'', Sussex Academic Press,

External links

Britské Listy

Čulík's 2002 study of the Czech media

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list of Jan Čulík's publications

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Culik, Jan Journalists from Prague Czech literary critics 1952 births Living people Writers from Prague Charles University alumni Academics of the University of Glasgow