Detailed Information on Publication Record
2017
The Remote Nation of Czechoslovakia as Visited by Mr. Gulliver on one of his Voyages
BUBENÍČEK, PetrBasic information
Original name
The Remote Nation of Czechoslovakia as Visited by Mr. Gulliver on one of his Voyages
Authors
BUBENÍČEK, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
The Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference, Leicester, 2017
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
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/17:00098101
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English
intermediality; adaptation; Juráček; Swift; Gulliver
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International impact
Změněno: 26/4/2018 11:17, doc. Mgr. Petr Bubeníček, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
In some of his plays Shakespeare positions the Czech lands next to the sea. The loose adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, shot by the Czech director Pavel Juráček and called Případ pro začínajícího kata (Case for a Rookie Hangman, 1969), features information that is more up-to-date. Of course, Juráček rather than Swift has to be made responsible. Unlike in Swift’s novel, however, the film’s protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver, lands in a country named Balnibarbi, which is modelled on 1960s Czechoslovakia. In my paper, I will examine that way in which Juráček’s film presents a poignant analysis of the world of socialism based on “make believe”– a convention of pretending accompanied by permanent and obtrusive police surveillance, and how the adaptation, based on an eighteenth-century text, ultimately shows the irreversible decay of the Communist regime.
Links
| MUNI/A/1171/2016, interní kód MU |
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