Jan Čulík

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Jan Čulík
Jan Čulík in 2010
Born2 November 1952 (1952-11-02) (age 71)
NationalityCzech
Occupation(s)Academic and independent journalist
Known forFounder and editor of Britské listy

Jan Čulík (born 2 November 1952 in Prague) is a Czech academic and independent journalist. He is the founder and editor of the independent Czech Internet daily Britské listy since 1996.

Early career[edit]

Čulík is a graduate of Czech studies and English studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (1977, PhDr 1978.) In the 1980s, he worked as a television producer in the United Kingdom, making films for Channel 4. He also worked with a number of Czech dissident organisations in the West, helping to disseminate information about pre-1989 oppression in Czechoslovakia. Beginning in 1989, Čulík worked as an investigative journalist for the Czech service of Radio Free Europe.

Recent activity[edit]

Čulík is Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland,[1] 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,[1] 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 fall of Communism.[2] 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,[1][3] 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.[4][1]

Books[edit]

  • 1985 - Orpheus Through the Ages: An Introduction to the History of the Orpheus Myth, Channel Four Television Limited, London, ISBN 9781851440009[1]
  • 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[1]
  • 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, ISBN 978-80-7294-254-1[2][1]
  • November 2012 - A Society in Distress: The Image of the Czech Republic in Contemporary Czech Feature Film, Sussex Academic Press, ISBN 978-1-84519-551-9 [3][1]
  • September 2013 - National Mythologies in Central European TV Series: How J.R. won the Cold War, Sussex Academic Press, ISBN 978-1-84519-596-0 [4][1]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Our staff - Dr Jan Culik". University of Glasgow - School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Jací jsme".
  3. ^ a b "A Society in Distress".
  4. ^ a b "National Mythologies in Central European TV Series".
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