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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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Chytilová, Kučera, Krumbachová: Daisies and Fruit of Paradise as an experiment of three authors
Křížkovská, Terezie ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee)
(in English): The following bachelors thesis deals with the creative cooperation of the Czech film director Věra Chytilová with the director of photography Jaroslav Kučera and art director Ester Krumbachová on the films Daisies (1966) and Fruit of Paradise (1969). Its aim is to answer the question if it is possible to distinguish between the contributions of each of the filmmakers or if rather their artwork is a product of three equivalent authors. Both of the films are characteristic for their extreme artistic stylization thanks to the experimental work with plot and film form, and therefore the thesis focuses on this tendency for experimentation as a specific Czechoslovak cultural phenomenon in the sixties and observes it among different art fields at the time. Subsequently it describes the transformation in different artistic approaches and shows their impact on filmmaking. It unravels not only the social and cultural transformations of the time, but also the institutional changes in film production that represent essential conditions for the genesis of the New Wave in Czech cinema and along with it experimental filmmaking. Thereafter it defines the characteristic themes and style of previous works of Věra Chytilová, Jaroslav Kučera and Ester Krumbachová. In the last part it uses these...
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DV8: Male bodies in the dance for camera
Mrázová, Adéla ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Španihelová, Magda (referee)
This bachelor thesis is occupied with the image of man body in the screen dance ganre and focuses on a few carefully chosen movies, in which the body is invastigated as a symbol and expressive element. All the researched movies (Strange fish /1892/, Enter Achilles /1896/, Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men /1989/) were created by DV8 Physical Theatre. I am interested in the way those movies relate to the phenomenon of masculinity, how they represent it and make it an aesthetic object, how they refuse or affirm the ideas of its fulfillment. I use the feminist and gender theories to define masculinity and as my primary methodological resource. I also put the movies in the historical context of the development of dance and trace influences that enabled DV8 Physical Theatre to represent the male body the way it does.
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The First Czech Queer Films from the Perspective of Queer Theory and Reception Studies
Hezinová, Sandra ; Hanáková, Petra (advisor) ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (referee)
The following bachelor's thesis focuses on the queer topic in the contemporary Czech feature cinema. In detail it analyses two films - The Country Teacher and Dolls, which were the first films in the history of Czech cinema who's main characters were ingenuously homosexual. The first part examines chosen films in the context of existing cinematographic tradition and describes the principles on which the film representation of gays and lesbians works. The main part analyses The Country Teacher and Dolls from the ideological perspective and tries to expose, how the heterosexual discourse operate in chosen films. By using the methodology of the queer theory it also describes, how are the information about gender and sexual identity organized. In the following chapter the films are explored in a broader section of cinematographic institution It concerns film's PR strategies and commercial campaigns on one hand and critical responses in the contemporary press on the other hand. The final part is founded by the reception study of queer audience, which coprehend not only the spectator's experience of chosen films, but reception modes and readers strategies as well.
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Czech film and culture magazines and its participation in spectator's formation, during 1918-1938
Lošťáková, Markéta ; Hanáková, Petra (advisor) ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (referee)
From the beginning of the 20th century culture magazines took significant part in creation and shaping of the emerging film audience. They become one of the film industry's major tools that attracted the viewers and held their attention. This thesis analyses the communication between the film magazines and their audience and study how the fans were motivated to keep on visiting the cinema. Various methods were employed in search of new subscibers: puzzles, polls, quiz competitions and price-stimulated adverts. Film magazines successfully used the considerable popularity of pulp fiction. In every issue the readers could find pulp stories in show business setting. What more, majority of the magazine articles were presented in the pulp fiction form. Fictionalized stories or tabloid news made use of the pulp plots. The articles of the "How I've become queen / king of silver screen" ilk were written as the examplery instructions for the wannabe-film star. Film journals encouraged those pipe dreams. Some of magazines lured the readers with the promise of actual film parts, others were satisfied with giving the advise on how to hit the screen. All this created a new role of reader construct: actor-trainee hoping to reach the stardome. Those who believed in magazine's promises were considerated lunatic by...
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Future families in the past tense: strategies of using home movies in documentary films
Rezková, Hana ; Hanáková, Petra (advisor) ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (referee)
Synopsis This thesis aims to define the basic strategies used to tackle and process home movie footage in compilation documentary films by Péter Forgács, Jan Šikl and Marek Šulík. It also aims to outline how these strategies influence and regulate the ways the historical period in question is communicated in these films. The source material of the home movie will first be discussed in its original family context as the product of a specific media memory practice that at the same time determines the rhetoric and aesthetics of this material. In the second part, the thesis will focus on two basic strategies for the use of home movie footage in these films. While the first strategy uses home movies to thematize and problematize the possibilities of historical representation, the second one exploits the mode of authenticity and strong affective potential of the home movie to block out active viewer engagement.
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Dialectical elements in Czech acted cinema of the 30's and 40's
Farkaš, Petr ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (referee)
Title: Dialectal elements in Czech acted cinema of the 30s and 40s Author: Petr Farkaš Department: Film Studies Department Supervisor: Doc. PhDr. Ivan Klimeš Abstract: The subject of this diploma thesis is a reflection on the possible uses of spoken language in films aimed at dialect as one of the substandard forms of Czech national language. In particular, the thesis focuses on the use of Moravian dialectal elements in the language of the film characters in Czech acted cinema made in the 1930s and 1940s. It evaluates the Moravian applied dialect from the phonetic and lexical point of view and analyses its function. The aim of the thesis is an evaluation and generalization of the possible uses of dialectal elements in cinematographic work. Keywords: folklore, dialect, artwork language, stylization of spoken language, spoken language in films.
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Space (in) film: theoretical conceptions of space from reality to intermedia
Svatoňová, Kateřina ; Hanáková, Petra (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
FILOZOFICKÁ FAKULTA UNIVERZITY KARLOVY V PRAZE KATEDRA FILMOVÉ VĚDY PROSTOR (VE) FILMU teoretické koncepce prostoru od reality k intermedialitě Diplomová práce VEDOUCÍ PRÁCE KATEŘINA SVATOŇOVÁ PhDr. PETRA HANÁKOVÁ, Ph.D. PRAHA 2006 2 Prohlašuji, že jsem diplomovou práci vypracovala samostatně s využitím uvedených pramenů. Upřímně děkuji1 Petře Hanákové, Ph.D. za velice moudré a inspirativní vedení napříč časoprostorem a svému otci za to, že tato procházka od reality k intermedialitě mohla být takto příjemná. 1 Stejně jako není možné uchopit problematiku prostoru v celé jeho šíři na rozměru diplomové práce, není ani adekvátní a zcela výstižné takto strohé poděkování... 3 OBSAH: Úvod I. Záměry a cíle diplomové práce. Struktura tématu 5 II. Metody a současný stav bádání 10 Prostor a jeho možná vymezení I. Žitý prostor 12 I.1. Filozofické koncepce prostoru 19 I.2. Prostor jako antropologická kategorie a jeho vnímání 22 I.3. Problematika času a prostoru v jednotlivých teoretických konceptech 31 II. Mimetický prostor 38 II.1. Transformace prostoru médiem a jeho abstraktní chápání 39 II.1.1. Prostor díla 48 I.1.2. Prostor v díle 65 II.2. Problematika času a prostoru v mimetických uměních 74 Prostor jako komunikace, prostor jako narace III.1. Vývoj naratologických konceptů směrem k prostorovosti 91 III.2. Prostor...
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