[ecrea] New Book: Czech fanzine culture

New Book on Czech fanzines -
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I Shout: „That´s Me“ Stories of Czech fanzines from the 80s till now/
Miloš Hroch (ed.)
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The book I shout “That‘s me!” Stories of Czech fanzines from the 80s 
till now for the first time takes its readers through uncharted waters 
of the Czech fanzine scene, that is, of unofficial amateur magazines. It 
brings to light stories of those who fell for computer games or wrote 
sci-fi stories, who obsessively compiled their metal music charts, who 
were driven to street demonstrations by hardcore music or who wanted to 
change the standing of women in society. And who then wrote about it 
freely in their magazines.

The bi-lingual publication I shout “That‘s me!” Stories of Czech 
fanzines from the 80s till now of over 230 pages features archival 
content and should be of interest to foreign readers too, as the fanzine 
culture outside of the Anglo-American scene is practically unmapped.

Publishing fanzines is an illness. The bug spread from American sci-fi 
fans, through British punks into a worldwide epidemic and reached 
Czechoslovakia even before the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. The 
symptoms and course of the fanzine fever in the local context are 
described by Miloš Hroch in the introductory essay. The book then tells 
the stories of the afflicted in seven chapters.

/Table of contents:

1. Karel Veselý / Foreword: There was nothing, and now, something

2. Miloš Hroch / Introduction: Have you ever tried putting a Mentos into 
Cola?
http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2018/2/15/the-czech-zine-scene-part-1

3. Viktor Palák / Metal: Chronicle of the swamp

4. Jaroslav Švelch / Computer games: Baby steps in machine code
http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2017/12/26/the-czech-zine-scene-part-four-computer-games

5. Jitka Kolářová / Feminism: Troublemaker girls of the world, unite!

http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2017/12/26/the-czech-zine-scene-part-three-feminism

6. Ivan Adamovič / Science fiction: In the Grey Zone of sci-fi

7. Milos Hroch / Hardcore punk: Those few baton hits
http://thequietus.com/articles/24434-milos-hroch-i-shout-that-s-me-czech-fanzine-culture-diy-hardcore-punk

8. Antonín Tesař / Comics: We´ll never be normal

9. Michal Nanoru, Pavel Turek
Photography: Running in flip-flops and the gentrification of office supplies

Even though all of the book‘s heroes come from different backgrounds, 
have different opinions and different passions, they all share one 
common thing: fanzines are a means of self-expression and 
self-determination for them. "This type of publication has the advantage 
that you can wave it around and shout 'That's me!'" a photographer, a 
protagonist of the youngest fanzine trend of photo zines, explains the 
essence of fanzines in one of the chapters of the book. And while there 
is the talk of the decline of printed media, the microcosm of 
independent printing is constantly expanding. The book I shout “That‘s 
me!” is not a definitive guide to Czech zine scene but an entry gate 
into it.

This work captures several stories of Czech fanzine writers and 
participants of the local scene and invites scholars, archivists, and 
journalist for further research. The prerevolution Czechoslovak 
underground and the activities of samizdat journalists before the fall 
of Iron Curtain in 1989 is well documented. This book is more aimed at 
fanzines, which can be considered as being in the shadows from a 
historical perspective.

Please direct any questions to (milos.hroch /at/ fsv.cuni.cz) 
<mailto:(milos.hroch /at/ fsv.cuni.cz)>
(Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social 
Sciences, Charles University in Prague)
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