Czech Literature on Screen under Siege

BUBENÍČEK, Petr. Czech Literature on Screen under Siege. In The 11th Annual Conference of the Association of Adaptation Studies, Adaptations and History, Oxford, 26-27 September 2016. 2016.

Basic information

Original name

Czech Literature on Screen under Siege

Authors

BUBENÍČEK, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

The 11th Annual Conference of the Association of Adaptation Studies, Adaptations and History, Oxford, 26-27 September 2016, 2016

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60204 General literature studies

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/16:00096020

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

adaptation; communism; Czechoslovakia; film industry

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International impact

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Abstract

V originále

My paper concerns film adaptations of literary works undertaken in Communist Czechoslovakia over the period from 1948 to 1955. I aim to show that not all adaptations produced by the state - controlled film industry were just artistically uninspired flops whose sole aspiration was to expound official ideology by other means. Although the Party apparatchiks strived to mold film adaptations according to the spirit of Marxism - Leninism, not every movie coming out of this ideological pressure cooker turned into a mere passive mouthpiece of doctrine emanating from high above.