Subversive Adaptations: Czech Literature on Screen behind the Iron Curtain 1st ed. 2017 [Kõva köide]

This book deals with film adaptations of literary works created in Communist Czechoslovakia between 1954 and 1969, such as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne, Marketa Lazarovį, and The Joke. It therefore treats a historically significant period around which myths and misinformation have arisen. It is broad in scope, examining aesthetic, political, social, and cultural issues. It sets out to disprove the notion that the state-controlled film industry behind the Iron Curtain produced only aesthetically uniform works pandering to official ideology. Bubenķcek"s main aim is to show how the political situation of Communist Czechoslovakia molded the film adaptations created there, but also how these same works, in turn, shaped the sociocultural conditions of the 1950s and the 1960s.

1. Introduction.- 2. Adaptation as Subterfuge: Silvery Wind.- 3. Adaptation as Play: The Worlds of Jules Verne Come Alive.- 4. Adaptation as Challenge: Marketa Lazarovį and Romance for Bugle.- 5. Adaptation as Contemporary Experience: The Joke.- 6. Epilogue.