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Soviet Film Comedy of the Late 60's and the 70's
Něudačina, Natalija ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee)
The subject of this thesis is a genre analysis of Soviet film comedies of the late 60s and the 70s that is based on the reception and production history data. The aim of this research is to grasp this type of comedy as a specific political and socially-cultural phenomenon of the Eastern bloc and its relation to Soviet popular culture. A methodology of the genre analysis will derive from Rick Altman's semantic-syntactic approach, which will allow us to describe the chosen genre group as a complex genre trend set in the unique social, cultural, economic and in this particular case also ideological context, to follow the development and fluidity of the genre trend, as well as to find and to compare mutual attributes of the chosen films. The analysis will not be based solely on the group of the most watched films, but also on the production data focusing mostly on the films' budget, as well as dramaturgic supervision and censorship. Another part of the diploma thesis will be based on the gathered reception data such as contemporary media response and viewer ratings, focusing on the important role that Soviet film comedies played in the period and partially continue to play in the present-day Russian popular culture. Fusion of all analytic parts shall bring us to the basic definition of the Soviet film...
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Artistic film style of Alexandr Petrov in animated short films
Něudačina, Natalija ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Přádná, Stanislava (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis Artistic film style of Alexandr Petrov in animated short films is to apply different tools of neoformalist analysis to five short animated films (specifically to films The Cow, The Dream of a ridiculous man, Mermaid, The Old man and the Sea and My Love), which were created by a russian director Alexandr Petrov, who uses one of the most difficult animation techniques - paint on glass. After summarizing basic concepts of the theoretical framework I am going to put Petrov's filmography into appropriate historical and sociocultural context. The analysis will be based on neoformalist terms, defined by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. Adaptation of analytical methods to the film material itself will allow us to describe, what kind of narrative and stylistic devices distinguish Petrovs' films. Another objective of this analysis is to prove that the main dominant, which influences the usage of all structural devices, is constant balancing between subjective and real world of the main character in the diegesis.
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