Illustrating the enormous impact television can have on the public s beliefs and values, this is the first ever international comparative study of the mythologies that popular television series in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania disseminate in their societies. Comparing samples of popular television from the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000s, this study provides strategically significant material about how these societies think and rationalize and what their thinking is rooted in. The study proceeds from the premise that popular television series provide a fertile ground of...