Subversive Adaptations by Petr Bubenek
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 Lazarova (Vlacil 1967), and The Joke (Jires 1969).-
Adapting Margaret Atwood
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Anamorphic Authorship in Canonical Film Adaptation
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Nordic Noir, Adaptation, Appropriation
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Penny Dreadful and Adaptation
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Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange
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Adaptation Before Cinema
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Screening the Author
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Queer/Adaptation
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Shakespearean Celebrity in the Digital Age
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James Bond Uncovered
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Patricia Highsmith on Screen
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True Event Adaptation
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Adaptation and Illustration
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Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama
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Adaptation and the New Art Film
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Adaptation, Awards Culture, and the Value of Prestige
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Adaptable TV
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Adapting Spanish Classics for the New Millennium
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Literature, Film, and Their Hideous Progeny
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The Making of... Adaptation and the Cultural Imaginary
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Shakespeare’s Fans
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Balzac Reframed
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Expanding Adaptation Networks
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Adaptation in Visual Culture
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Neo-Victorianism on Screen
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Screening Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama
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Embodying Adaptation
“Bubeníček’s study is a remarkable historian’s project, as his introduction focuses on offering a nuanced overview of social thought between 1948 and 1969… Bubeníček’s entire volume is, indeed, structured this way. Its great merit lies in the broad, well-documented historical overview it proposes, combined with the masterly interpretation of both literary and cinematic techniques.” (Maria Chiorean, Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, Vol. 5 (1), July, 2019)
“Throughout this tour of post-war Czech cinema, Bubeníček is an urbane, perceptive, and exceptionally well-informed guide. He is a rewardingly subtle analyst of his country’s political history, its literary and cinematic landmarks, and especially the visual and auditory texture of the films in which he takes such contagious delight. … Bubeníček’s expositions are as illuminating as they are thorough … .” (Thomas Leitch, Adaptation, Vol. 11 (03), 2018)
“Throughout this tour of post-war Czech cinema, Bubeníček is an urbane, perceptive, and exceptionally well-informed guide. He is a rewardingly subtle analyst of his country’s political history, its literary and cinematic landmarks, and especially the visual and auditory texture of the films in which he takes such contagious delight. … Bubeníček’s expositions are as illuminating as they are thorough … .” (Thomas Leitch, Adaptation, Vol. 11 (03), 2018)
Petr Bubeníček 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 addition to editing three issues on film adaptation for the journals Česká literatura, Iluminace, and Pandora.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783319409603 |
| ISBN 10 | 3319409603 |
| Title | Subversive Adaptations |
| Author | Petr Bubenek |
| Series | Palgrave Studies In Adaptation And Visual Culture |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Year published | 2017-11-20 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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