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Subversive Adaptations

Czech Literature on Screen behind the Iron Curtain

By: Petr Bubeníček

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Subversive Adaptations

Czech Literature on Screen behind the Iron Curtain

By: Petr Bubeníček

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 Lazarová (Vláčil 1967), and The Joke (Jireš 1969). Bubeníček 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. Bubeníček’s 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.

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3319409611

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Screen Industries in East-central Europe

By: Petr Szczepanik

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Screen Industries in East-central Europe

By: Petr Szczepanik

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Petr Szczepanik provides an in-depth study of the history and contemporary landscape of screen media industries in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. Drawing on first-hand research in the world of the various producers who operate in the "digital peripheries" of Central and Eastern European, he offers broad insights into the ways the screen industries of small nations are positioned in and respond to globalization and digitalization. Szczepanik's shows how film, television, and online video are industries with still distinct structures and professional cultures, but which have nevertheless been converging, affected by the same globalizing forces such as transnational video on demand services and platforms, and whose producers move across inter-industry boundaries with increasing ease. The book explores small media markets through attention to the role of producers as key cultural mediators, looking closely at how their agency is circumscribed by the limited scope and peripheral positioning of the markets in which they operate, and how they struggle to overcome these obstacles through their professional identities, business models, and adaptations to technological change and transnational competition"--

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1839022752

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9781839022753

Digital Peripheries

By: Petr Szczepanik,Pavel Zahrádka,Jakub Macek

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Digital Peripheries

By: Petr Szczepanik,Pavel Zahrádka,Jakub Macek

This is an open access book. Media industry research and EU policymaking are predominantly tailored to large (and, in the latter case, Western) European markets. This open access book addresses the specific qualities of smaller media markets, highlighting their vulnerability to global digital competition and outlining survival strategies for them. New online distribution models and new trends in the consumption of audiovisual content are limited by, and pose new challenges for, existing audiovisual business models and their legal framework in the EU. The European Commission's Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy, which was intended e.g. to remove obstacles to the cross-border distribution of audiovisual content, has triggered a heated debate on the transformation of the existing ecosystem for European screen industries. While most current discussions focus on the United States, Western Europe, and the multinational giants, this book approaches these industry trends and policy questions from the perspective of relatively small and peripheral (in terms of their population, language, cross-border cultural flows, and financial and/or symbolic capital) media markets. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

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