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The Old, the New, and the Queerly Magical World of Dickinson
By Tereza Walsbergerová Due to the specific blend of genres, styles, and themes it chooses to highlight – all wrapped up in a wildly anachronistic package – Alena Smith’s Apple TV+ historical comedy-drama Dickinson (2019–) will never have the same mainstream appeal as the likes of Downton Abbey, Outlander, or The Crown. That said, there…
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Future for the Females?
by Jana Záhoráková The Power, a science fiction novel by British novelist Naomi Alderman, was published in 2016. It won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2017 and amongst other prestigious praise, it was one of the books former president Barrack Obama listed as his favourites of that year. The novel consists of several…
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Do you remember when we thought the news was boring?
Years and Years: A Review by Blanka Šustrová Years and Years is a six-episode British TV series created and written by Russel T. Davies, who is known for his work on over thirty episodes of Doctor Who. It was created in a joint production of BBC and HBO and premiered on BBC One in May…
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“Becoming” First Lady
by Ľubomíra Tomášová Throughout the history, there were myriad of biographies written about First Ladies of United States and a number of memoirs written by them. In each case the story was unique and different mirroring both their backgrounds and eras in which they served. At the end of the 2018, Michelle Obama’s memoir Becoming…
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Towards Inclusive Heritage: Thoughts on Wain, a collection of LGBT themed poetry by Rachel Plummer
by Tereza Walsbergerová Agender and gender-queer creatures, bisexual mermaids, homosexual warriors, asexual goddesses, non-binary elves, and transgender seal folk. All this and more awaits you in Rachel Plummer’s 2019 LGBT themed retellings of Scottish mythology – Wain: LGBT Reimaginings of Scottish Folklore. As the book was commissioned by an organisation dedicated to the inclusion of…
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Stoker: A Tale of Female Maturescence with a Tinge of Hitchcock
By Sandra Hrášková Stoker, a 2013 psychological thriller drama film, is the English-language debut of South Korean film director, screenwriter and producer Park Chan-wook. The narrative depicts the unsettling coming of age story of a young woman repressed by her dysfunctional family. Chan-wook is praised as one of the most renowned and favoured filmmakers in…
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Ponti: On Female Strengths and Burdensome Social Roles
By Sandra Hrášková Sharlene Teo is a Singaporean novelist based in the United Kingdom whose fictional pieces have appeared in publications such as Esquire UK, Magma Poetry, and Eunoia Review. She has an LLB in Law from the University of Warwick and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she…
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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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The Heavier the Borscht, the Lighter the Burden: Inaccuracies in Czech Representation on American Screens
By Tereza Walsbergerová The United States is above all a country of immigrants, which is why it is desirable for American producers and filmmakers to include immigrant and foreign narratives in their stories. While the representation of the larger foreign-born populations in the US (e.g. Mexican, Chinese or Indian) has been constantly improving due to…