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, Marketa Lazarova, and The Joke. It therefore treats a historically significant period around which myths and misinformation have arisen. It is broad in scope, examining 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. Bubeniček's main aim is to show how the...