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Art Makes Us Stronger
By Anna Jílková and Michaela Medveďová When trying to answer a simple question – what is art – one may come to realize that this question is, indeed, very tricky. At least the search for the answer is. The definition varies from one person to another – what one considers to be art someone else may…
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Adaptation is characteristic of everything – of all life, all disciplines and all media: Interview with Kamilla Elliott
By Blanka Šustrová It would not be an exaggeration to claim that all of us have experienced some type of adaptation during our lifetime already. People often go to the cinema to watch movies based on their favourite books, play games based on their favourite movies and then read books based on the games.…
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Just a Bloke from Stratford: Upstart Crow Review
By Blanka Šustrová Our hero lives in a small cottage somewhere in Warwickshire. He has to feed and clothe his old, grumpy parents together with his wife (eight years older) and their three children – a mopey teenager that only speaks in grunts and twins whose only interests are sweets. He commutes to London every…
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Spring 2017
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The Many Sides of Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel
by Martina Krénová and Tereza Walsbergerová Although he is not leaving the department altogether, the fact that he is stepping down as head after 15 years definitely feels like the end of an era. That is why we decided to sit down with the former Head and current Deputy Head of the Department of…
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In the Land of the Armed
By Jan Beneš I don’t always receive emails inviting me to go to an active shooter training, but when I do, I attend it. (Un)fortunately, there are no actual guns or any weapons involved in this kind of training; rather, it is a dry presentation by the campus police at Texas A&M, where I am…
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Brexit: Post-Referendum Sentiments
By Natália Poláková In the last issue, Re: Views brought its readers detailed coverage of the Brexit campaign as an indecisive contest between the ‘inners’ and the ‘outers’. The referendum, held on June 23 2016, turned out to be a surprising exercise in democracy for Britain. Some 52 per cent voted to leave the European Union…
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Playing the Books
Adapting Literature into Videogames By Blanka Šustrová “[Videogames are] any forms of computer-based entertainment software, either textual or image-based, using any electronic platform such as personal computers or consoles and involving one or multiple players in physical or networked environment” (Frasca in Newman 27).
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Propaganda on Screen: Adapting Shakespeare’s Henry V
By Markéta Šonková It is no news that famous writings and cultural pieces have been, and continue to be used or interpreted differently than might have been their original literary purpose, often as a means to legitimize or explain actions of certain individual(s). This has been the case no matter what ideology or movement was…
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Before Beasts And Cursed Child There Was A Very Potter Musical
By Barbara Ocsovayová You have read the books, you have seen the films, but have you heard about the musical? A Very Potter Musical is a parodic adaptation of Harry Potter that pays tribute to the story of the boy-who-lived whilst being fresh with original jokes.