Podcasts Other Radio Prague International - Topic «Arts» Political dissent in Czech animation, from ‘Cybernetic Grandma’ to ‘Greedy Guts’, and beyond

Political dissent in Czech animation, from ‘Cybernetic Grandma’ to ‘Greedy Guts’, and beyond

Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 10:05 p.m.

Adam Whybray, a lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Suffolk, has just published a comprehensive English-language account of the history of Czech animation, from the 1920s to the present. As the book’s title would suggest – The Art of Czech Animation: A History of Political Dissent and Allegory – he takes a keen interest not just in the craft but in the oft hidden, ambiguous or subversive messages therein.