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The aim of this article is to map out and analyse how the viewers of the communist-governed Czechoslovak television understood the propagandist television serials during the so-called normalization, the last two decades of communist party rule after the Prague Spring. It strives to show peculiarities of the research on television viewers' capabilities to remember the meanings and details of hermeneutic agency which took place in the past. The article argues that – in contrast to the mainstream historiography which claims full depoliticization of Czechoslovak people as a consequence of post-Prague Spring disillusionment – the uses of popular culture provided niches in which the political could be experienced. The role of reproductive memory in remembering the viewers' experience buried under the grand socio-political switchover is also illuminated and used to coin the concept of 'memory over dislocation'.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Perspectives on Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty in European Contexts -- Intersections of the Study of Class and Media -- A Socio-Cultural Approach to Class and Poverty -- Shame and Shaming -- The European Perspective of Class and Poverty as Objects of Shame -- Chapter Overview -- References -- Chapter 2: 'Benefits Scroungers' and Stigma: Exploring the Abject-Grotesque in British Poverty Porn Programming -- Broadcasting Benefits: An Explosion of 'Poverty Porn' -- Beyond the Borders: The Abject and the Grotesque -- Methodology: Abject-Grotesque Frame Analysis -- Animating the 'Benefits Mum' -- Internalising 'Scrounger' Stigma -- Embodying Abjection -- Us and Them, Self and Other: Maintaining the Boundaries -- Transgressing Limits -- Transferring or Reinforcing Stigma? -- Conclusion: The 'Benefits Scrounger' as an Abject-Grotesque Figure -- References -- Chapter 3: Neural Attunement to Others: Shame, Social Status, and Rewarded Viewing in Reality Television in Sweden -- Neuroscience and Media Engagement -- Misconduct on Lyxfällan -- Shame and Devaluation -- The Work of Dis-identification: Feelings-in-Common -- Scorn, Self-Worth, and Social Comparison -- Emotional Memories: Neural Attunement to Others -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Shame, (Dis)empowerment and Resistance in Diasporic Media: Romanian Transnational Migrants' Reclassification Struggles -- Shame and Reclassification Struggles in Transnational Contexts -- Shame and Reclassification Struggles in Public Culture and Discourses: Romanian 'Badanti' and 'Strawberry Pickers' -- Corpus and Analytical Framework -- Findings and Discussion: Reactions to Shame as Forms of Empowerment and Resistance -- Deprivation, Shame and Emigration.