Overview
- First book-length study of Czech literary film adaptation in English
- Looks at a historically significant period about which little is known
- Disproves the notion that state-controlled film industry behind the Iron Curtain produced only works pandering to official ideology
- Takes a rare look at adaptation studies beyond traditional Anglophone cultures
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)
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“Throughout this tour of post-war Czech cinema, Bubeníček is an urbane, perceptive, and exceptionally well-informed guide. He is a rewardingly subtle analyst of his country’s political history, its literary and cinematic landmarks, and especially the visual and auditory texture of the films in which he takes such contagious delight. … Bubeníček’s expositions are as illuminating as they are thorough … .” (Thomas Leitch, Adaptation, Vol. 11 (03), 2018)
“Petr Bubeníček focuses on six outstanding film adaptations of literary works, released in Czechoslovakia between 1954 and 1969. Despite the communist ideological pressure, these films were able to push against the prescribed boundaries. The subversion ranged from the subtle Aesopian language and nostalgia for the past, to the harsh disillusion and open criticism of the Stalinism. The book’s exceptional merit is its precise analysis of poetic and cinematic techniques, presented in the complicated sociocultural conditions of the 1950s and 1960s.” (Jiří Holý, Charles University, Czech Republic)
“This is an absorbing exposition of film adaptations from a period in Czechoslovakian history when political pressure was combined with a certain artistic freedom. Petr Bubeníček offers sensitive and multifaceted interpretations of films and their sources thoroughly embedded in cultural and political history. He unravels subtle layers of meaning, hovering between the aesthetic and the subversive, and finally leaves the reader with a sensation of better understanding the complex interrelations between art and society.” (Lars Elleström, Linnaeus University, Sweden)
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Book Title: Subversive Adaptations
Book Subtitle: Czech Literature on Screen behind the Iron Curtain
Authors: Petr Bubeníček
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40961-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40960-3Published: 20 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82228-0Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40961-0Published: 07 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-629X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6303
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 224
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Cinema and TV, Adaptation Studies, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Film Theory