BUBENÍČEK, Petr. Politics and Adaptation : The Case of Jan Hus. In Leitch, Thomas. The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, p. 559-575. ISBN 978-0-19-933101-7.
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Original name Politics and Adaptation : The Case of Jan Hus
Authors BUBENÍČEK, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition New York, The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies, p. 559-575, 17 pp. 2017.
Publisher Oxford University Press
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Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 60204 General literature studies
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/17:00096480
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
ISBN 978-0-19-933101-7
Keywords in English Adaptation; Czech cinema; Communism; Stalinism; Hussitism
Tags rivok, topvydavatel
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Politics and Adaptation. The case of Jan Hus This study deals with an image of the Czech priest and theorist of ecclesiastical Reformation Jan Hus (c. 1370–1415) changing due to new political, social and cultural contexts. I aim to show how the Communist regime appropriated Jan Hus through Otakar Vávra’s eponymous adaptation filmed in 1953 in which Hus is portrayed as a revolutionary. I introduce Jan Hus in his historical and theological role and then focus on how he and the Hussite movement were perceived from the 18th century onwards. A special figure in this process is a writer Alois Jirásek whose novels and plays provided an answer to the question of Czech culture and identity which he saw in the historical traditions. The Communist appropriation of Jirásek’s work, including his drama Jan Hus (1911), then claimed that the Czech medieval society was headed in the direction of revolution, even if it had no term for such a thing.
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ROZV/24/FF/UCL1/2014, interní kód MUName: Stimulace VaV výkonu Filozofické fakulty - Bubeníček
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
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