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Miranda July: It’s Kind of a Wild Time
By Patricija Fašalek About two years ago I met an American who told me I bear a resemblance to Miranda July. At that time I did not know who she was so I asked him about her, thinking her label would be something like: a writer, a filmmaker, a politician etc. He seemed quite surprised by…
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Breaking Through Into the Light: Junot Díaz and His Way to the Minds of the Masses
By Anna Rybníčková The urge to be heard is an old struggle, especially for minorities. With the rise of the importance of cinema, contemporary TV and producers such as Netflix or HBO, a necessary space has been provided for people of various ethnicities to be heard and seen. And yet, how many classic Hollywood movies…
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Aggie for a Year: Yet Another Letter from Texas
By Tereza Walsbergerová Dear reader, I thought that since this is supposed to be a letter, I would treat it as one and address y’all properly. I have only been in College Station for a couple of months and it feels like I have been here for years. Yet – even though I have…
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The Music of Cavetown: A Helping Hand for Mental Health Issues
By Mariia Minaeva And you know when the sun dies None of this will matter half as much as you thought Cavetown, “Calpol” (00:48)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Between the Book and the Movie
By Patricija Fašalek If you try and search Milan Kundera in relation to America in Google, the same paragraph repeats itself in different articles. What originates in writings of New York Times and seems to be widely agreed upon: “In the 1980’s, Milan Kundera has done for his native Czechoslovakia what Gabriel Garcia Marquez did for Latin…
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Czech-Moravian Heritage in Texas
By Clinton Machann Before retiring as a professor of English at Texas A&M University in 2017, my principal academic interest was in the field of nineteenth-century British literature and culture, but my interest in the history of Czech – primarily Moravian – immigration to Texas and the Czech-Moravian community there is longstanding. It goes back…
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Brexit Talks and Scotland’s Braveheart
by Natália Poláková In past issues, Re:Views has shed light on the UK’s recent referendum history. Indeed, the very first issue of our magazine reported on the Scottish independence referendum while successive ones have closely watched post-Brexit referendum machinations. The debate over the Brexit deal is still a tangled affair, far from a concluding phase,…
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Alma Mater: University Experiences in the USA and Czech Republic
By Colleen Kiefer Maher When traveling or comparing cultures, it is the big differences that always get the attention. You might see pictures of the Charles Bridge or Prague Castle or practice nailing those tricky Czech letters. Of course, those are part of experiencing of the Czech Republic, but they are not all of it.…
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Contextualizing the Czech-American Relationship in the Light of NATO and Military Partnership: Creation, Evolution, and Cooperation
By Markéta Šonková A shared appreciation of democratic ideals and human rights stood for one of the cornerstones of the foreign policies of the former Czechoslovakia and the U.S. as well as an ideological link between the two countries. At least this is what we learn when tracing the steps of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and…
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The Cinematic American Dream: The Life and Films of Miloš Forman
by Michaela Medveďová Every time the United States attempts to make a rank of their best motion picture in the history of the silver screen, apart from classics such as Casablanca (1942), The Godfather (1972), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), or Forrest Gump (1994), there is another movie they always consider for one of the top…