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Film as a Medium of Cultural Memory: Cinematic Representations of the Post - War Expulsion of Germans and its Changes
Řehořová, Irena ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee)
As a result of the development of visual media and the related tendency in social sciences described as "pictorial turn", many disciplines have incorporated in the field of their research also the study of phenomena that used to stay out of their attention. In sociology, this tendency resulted in the emergence of a new sub-discipline, referred to as sociology of the image or visual sociology. The subject of this dissertation falls within this sub-field: the attention is focused on movies, which today stand as a powerful media of cultural memory. The main goal of this project is to describe the specific practices of cultural remembering following from the nature of the film medium, and to explore the significance of the film as a source of sociological cognition. In the first part, film is recognized as a cultural/social phenomenon, which shouldn't be understood only as a product of individual authors, as there are many institutions and other subjects (which together form a cinematographic field) who also contribute to the making of a film by defining its possibilities and thus influence the way how particular events are represented. The second part of the work presents different theoretical approaches that map the nature of relation between film representation and reality - they describe the...
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The Calamity: Neoformalist Analysis and Narratological Analysis
Podskalský, Matěj ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee)
In my thesis I analyze narrative structure and style of THE CALAMITY (KALAMITA, Věra Chytilová, 1981). The aim of my analysis is to discover what kind of techniques Chytilova uses to violate norms of classical narration and style, how she uses film form to reflect upon lapses in morale and tries to disrupt social tendencies of the Normalization Period. I use neoformalist theory (David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson) and narratology (David Bordwell). I briefly discuss economical, cultural and historical context related to the Normalization period and I also study production history and censorship of THE CALAMITY. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Postwar purge of czech cinematography in 1945-1946.
Černá, Zuzana ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (referee)
This thesis concerns the process of Postwar purge, a purge which was being carried out by the Disciplinary Board of the Union of Czech film workers, in film industry after the Second World War. Even before establishing the Retribution Decrees, revolutionary denazification commissions came into being in many areas of public life. These commissions tried workers co-operating with invaders with absolutely no legal basis. The film industry, a kind of mass media which was on the front burner, also underwent this process under the supervision of a new cinematography leadership. The new leadership's aim was to nationalise the film branch. The aim of this thesis is to make clear who was tried by the commission and under what conditions, how the commission arbitrated and who were its members. Another goal is to imply how they influenced the next course of post-war Czechoslovak cinematography.
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Film Screenings at CVUT
Henzler, Richard ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (referee)
Richard Henzler - CVUT Film Club Abstract (in English): The thesis presents the history of CVUT Film Club using oral history method. The aim of the work is to describe the operation of the club in years 1984 to 1990. Primary Neuman. The work further analyses the chronicle of the club and the findings are supplemented with information from contemporary sources. The theoretical part of the work introduces the method of oral history, its methodology, advantages and shortcomings. It also includes an overview of the history of Czechoslovak film clubs as an introduction to the era. The practical part gives a chronological account of the operation of the film club and is supplemented by information from the interviews and from the chronicle of the film club. The appendices are transcripts of the interviews with the founders.
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Vladimír Dvořák and Czechoslovak TV's Entertainment Programms Department over 1968 - 1976
Hroncová, Alexandra ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Přádná, Stanislava (referee)
(in English): Vladimír Dvořák (14 May, 1925 - 28 December, 1999) is mainly known to the public as the presenter of Televarieté, a TV entertainment programme, and older generations may also remember him as a music programme presenter and an author of lyrics to pop-music songs of the 1960s. However, this limited perception calls for a correction, as Vladimír Dvořáka was, without exaggeration, a universally talented man. As this text aims to show, Dvořák was strong in fine art and literary disciplines (wrote a number of librettos), as well as on the script-editing, programme presenting and acting sides, and all these artistic talents were sheltered with and maybe even shadowed by his organisational skills (completely unknown to the public) combined with enormous proactivity and high ambitions. During his presence at ČST Vladimír Dvořák created a TV entertainment development strategy that he worked on until his death. He was diplomatic and creative at the same time, and he introduced a number of very successful TV formats to feature many big names, at least those tolerated by the totalitarian regime. Vladimír Dvořák knew how to manoeuvre his way through the clearly demarcated world of communist TV broadcasting without having to make dirty compromises with the regime's officials. Moreover, although he...
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The Portrayal of Czech Society in Petr Schulhoff's Film Comedies of the Normalization Era
Šrajer, Martin ; Přádná, Stanislava (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee)
Submitted thesis The Portrayal of Czech Society in Petr Schulhoff's Film Comedies of the Normalization Era analyses the cinematography of the Czechoslovak Republic in the seventies and the eighties through the topic of social a ideological values which they present. Its primary concern is the question what are selected movies saying about Czechoslovak social reality of that time and which instruments of semiotic mediations are used for this purpose. The main assumption of the work is that also escapist entertainment described the era, setting and characters according to norms dictated by the communist government and thus help to stabilize the system.
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Warriors of Faith in the Third Czechoslovak Republic
Doležal, Kryštof ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (referee)
! Warriors of Faith is the first Czechoslovak colored feature film, which narrates the final stage of Hussite Wars. This film should approved the legitimacy of nationalized cinematography and beca- me the representative work of the Czechoslovak art. This movie fitted in the nationalistic folklore of Czech culture, hussite tradition and allowed the argumentation against Germans, liberals and to em- phasize other aspects of Czech nationalism. Cinematography and press were the most important mass media in those days and were regulated or controlled by the government of National Front. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to clarify (through media analysis) in what matter the press reflec- ted the movie, or rather in what sense resonated the Czech nationalism in the selected texts.
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Literary country in protectorate cinematography
Svěcená, Dobroslava ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (referee)
(in English): This paper deals with the beginnings of nationally-emancipatory and patriotic expressions, which became part of the Czech rural prose during the nineteenth century and which are reflected as nation-defending tendencies in protectorate cinematography by a medium of film adaptation in the twentieth century. The paper intends to interconnect both of these historical periods. Due to the political and social reasons there was increased amount of revivalist ideals of the national rural life in the classic Czech rural prose as well as in the films. The ideals came from national historical traditions and from the cult of the nature and countryside, in which the topos of a "little cottage" ("idyllic place") played the major role. These elements became part of the self-image of the Czech people during the rise of the modern Czech nation (i.e. from the beginning of the nineteenth century till the World War I) and were intensified in the era of national menace during the protectorate. Last part of the paper, which uses the example of the writer Božena Němcová and her novel Babička, shows the concrete expressions of these ideals, that became part of her cult during the decades.
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REFLECTION OF COUNTRYSIDE IN CZECH FILM 1945 - 1969
Slinták, Petr ; Přádná, Stanislava (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee)
The thesis concerns with a film reflection of social, economic and cultural changes of the Czech countryside from 1945 to 1969. The key topic of the research was to focus on a changing image of agriculture collectivization. The collectivization of countryside was a significant means of socialist transformation of conservative rural society in Czechoslovakia. It was one of the most important periods of Czech modern history. The dramatic events related to the moment caused that it often became filmed. The motives of collectivization and cooperative socialistic villages were demanded by state film administration. This is the reason why there were produced many feature films about the theme, especially between 1945-1969. The thesis analyses the most important movies of Czechoslovak non-fiction film production, which filled with some documentary notions. It analyses motives that deals with a changes and interactions of main story figures. Each film is confronted with supplement information based on sociology or history literature, newspaper articles of the period, archive materials and oral history. The deformation of reality in the films is exemplified by comparing it with the real historic and social living conditions. The thesis also focuses on founding the socialistic cooperative farms, politic...
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