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 (Zeman 1958), Marketa Lazarov? (Vl?1il 1967), and The Joke (Jirea 1969). Buben?1ek treats a historically significant period around which myths and misinformation have arisen. The book is broad in scope and examines 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. Buben?1eks main aim is to show how the political situation of Communist Czechoslovakia moulded 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 Lazarov? and Romance for Bugle.- 5. Adaptation as a Reflection of the Zeitgeist.- 6. Epilogue.
Throughout this tour of post-war Czech cinema, Buben?1ek is an urbane, perceptive, and exceptionally well-informed guide. He is a rewardingly subtle analyst of his countrys political history, its literary and cinematic landmarks, and especially the visual and auditory texture of the films in which he takes such contagious delight. & Buben?1eks expositions are as illuminating as they are thorough & . (Thomas Leitch, Adaptation, Vol. 11 (03), 2018)Petr Buben?1ek is Assistant Professor in the Department of Czech Literature and Library Studies at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He specializes in the history of modern Czech literature, literary interpretation, film adaptation, and intermediality. He has published several studies, in addil£*
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