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In Pool of Blood. Crime Films and its Production Cycles between Various Participants of Czechoslovak Nationalized Cinema (1945-1965)
Mišúr, Martin ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee) ; Hain, Milan (referee)
The starting point of this dissertation thesis is a question relating to the assumptions of fictional, long-length crime films in the environment of the nationalized Czechoslovak cinema. The underlying research covers in depth the period between the years 1945 and 1965. The time period covered by this thesis begins with the moments of the May liberation and the August nationalization in Czechoslovakia and ends with the phase of a partial exhaustion of production cycles and genre designations. Since the mid-1960s, these films have established themselves and have successfully withstood numerous production and socio-political collisions for several decades. The main objective of this thesis is to clarify what was behind this genre development. Methodologically, the thesis applies the genre theory and benefits specifically from the research into production cycles adapted to the domestic environment. The definition of a production cycle - a thematic pattern occurring in a production application that is implemented regularly and without interruption over a period of several years - is adopted from the already existing definitions formulated by researchers who proposed this term (Rick Altman, Steve Neale), as well as (and especially) from those researchers who developed the relevant stimuli in their complex...
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The beginnings and ends of Peter Jackson
Navrátilová, Lucie ; BROTHÁNEK, Adam (advisor) ; Mišúr, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the cinematographic work of New Zealand director Peter Jackson. It explores his transformation from a film enthusiast to a renowned creator with many million dollar budgets. By analyzing his early films and comparing with contemporary films, I am discovering how his formal and narrative practices have changed in connection with his entry into mainstream production.
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Weapons of Mass Equivocation: Contradictory Coordinates of Postwar Anti-Communist Cycle
Mišúr, Martin ; Hanáková, Petra (advisor) ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (referee)
The aim of this master's thesis is to define and analyse the anti-Communist cycle: a group of several dozen feature films, which were produced in the United States since the late forties until the end of the fifties. The thesis adopts a critical approach to the current research on the cycle; it considers that scholars have not taken into account much of the relevant context and have described the cycle only as a reflection of some social phenomena. This project enriches the debate by considering the plurality of differently motivated participants. In addition to shifts in the society as a whole, the emphasis is put on the interests of both the film industry and ones, who expressed their disagreement with the dominant form of anti-Communism, but not with the anti-Communism itself. The anti-Communist cycle is thus presented as a dynamic group of various films in terms of ideas, style or genres; among these films a discreet tension was created. This general hypothesis is tested by three extensive chapters. The first chapter deals with the context and defines the role of all participants. It is divided into two parts: (a) the historical context, (b) the context of the film industry. The second chapter summarizes the long continuity of production of anti-Communist films in the United States; then it...
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Report on State of the Anti-communism: Red Scare Movies Between Actual World and Fictional World
Mišúr, Martin ; Hanáková, Petra (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee)
The main objective of this bachelor's thesis is to focus on Red Scare movies, which are cultural relics of McCarthyism in the United States. So-called "anti-communist cycle" consists of approximately forty feature movies, only at first sight creating a remarkably compact unit. The intention of this thesis is to select from the anti-communist cycle a sample of twelve movies, which in my opinion most accurately follow the contemporary rhetoric of radical anti-communism in American society, attempt to embrace the idea of omnipresent threat and necessary interventions by anti-communist organizations. Methodologically, the thesis arises from the new film history and relies on the theory of fictional worlds, because it provides a suitable tool for describing links between fiction and its reference to what we experience in the real world. The first chapter deals with the history and film industry context - genesis of the Cold War, ideological background of communism and anti-communism in the United States and manifestation of contemporary pressures in the film industry. The beginning of the second chapter will serve as a contextual framework for the main topic of the thesis: Hollywood anti-communist movies. What follows is an analytical part consisting of three complex subchapters always concluded by...
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