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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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Report from the 14th ESSE Conference
By Patrícia Iliašová At the end of August 2018, Brno welcomed around 660 delegates from 55 different countries to the 14th ESSE Conference which ran from 29 August to 2 September. The conference was organized by the Czech Association for the Study of English (CZASE) and the Department of English and American Studies (DEAS),…
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“Let Them Love Language”: Interview with Poet Rachel Plummer
By Tereza Walsbergerová “The secret me is a boy. / He takes girlness off like a sealskin: / something that never sat right on his shoulders.” Those are the first three lines of the poem “Selkie” by Scottish poet Rachel Plummer who was recently commissioned by LGBT Youth Scotland to write a collection of…
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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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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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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 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,…