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Music as a Part of the Inner World of film
Šec, František ; BAGDASAROV, Georgy (advisor) ; ČENĚK, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with the use of music, a factor which strongly affects the viewer's emotions. This is particularly true with respect to its position relative to the image - an important factor affecting its functioning in the film. I start with the theoretical works that analyze the problem, how the viewer in the cinema hears the sounds and what impact it has on their different positions to the image. Principles of film music also influenced the long-term development of cinema. This process was accompanied today's over-use of music. In many cases, the authors ignore the consequences caused by its position. Specific examples of films will help us understand the whole issue. The position of music is not always easily determinable. Work will help us understand the importance of integrating musical part in the film. If music is sophisticated and connected with the world of film, the viewer can concentrate and perceive the film as art.
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Experimental film in Buenos Aires since 2001
Moralesová, Alexandra ; POSPISZYL, Tomáš (advisor) ; ČENĚK, David (referee)
Experiment in any art discipline attracts attention and is associated with the beginnings, immaturity, and experiencing the new. If in the 21st century an experimental tendency is emerging in film, a medium and discipline considered to be exhausted and in decline, it is unsettling.
In Argentine film, experiment is first mentioned in connection with the non-conformist art scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Filmmakers Narcisa Hirsch and Claudio Caldini are representatives of that decade; they are also witnesses who connect this "first" era with the first and second decade of the 21st century, since they are, once again, among contemporary Argentine artists who turn to film as the medium for experiment.
Whether or not it is possible to talk about a tradition of experimental film in Argentina is not as substantial as (acknowledging) the conditions which accompanied its rise in the two periods mentioned. The 1970s were a period marked by the regime of military dictatorship. The year 2001 represents a turning point in which economic, political and social crisis erupted. In both instances, the circumstances wholly pervaded the life of the society and its art and can be seen as critical. Whether crisis creates the potential for experiment is an open question underlaying reflections on the contemporary possibilities of experimental film and art
in general.
The present work aims to compare the wider social and cultural conditions and creative and production strategies of filmmakers in the 1970s with the conditions and strategies of the filmmakers working after 2001 in Buenos Aires. Furthermore, with regard to the expansion of the audiovisual scene and its transformation into the field of arts of the moving image, it proposes to look at contemporary experimental film in Argentina through the practices of authors from different fields of art such as Claudio Caldini, Pablo Mazzolo and Andrés Denegri.
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Russian cinematographers of the 70`s and 80`s of the 20th century
Souček, Prokop ; SMUTNÝ, Vladimír (advisor) ; BERNARD, Jan (referee)
In this diploma thesis I summarize and analyze information about cinematographers of the 70`s and 80`s of the 20th century. I deal with the basics of theory in the context of the period, as well as artistic relationships, and detailed analysis of specific films, with the target to explain the innovative visual procedures established in this period in Russia. I aim to show the influence of the unique production of the period on todays work by analyzing given means of expression.
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The birth of the myth of Dracula and his transformation, not only in the history of film
Klímová, Blanka ; PETRÁŇ, Tomáš (advisor) ; Brothánek, Adam (referee)
The starting point of my work will be a selection of films about Dracula.In this thesis, I would like to address the evolution in the representations of Dracula, from physical appearance to changes in the character, as well as the character development within the story.I want to look into this subject from a broad scope: Not only from the cinematographic context, but also from the cultural, historical and dramaturgical context. I'm interested in the evolution of the archetype of immortality in different cultural manifestations, from body embalming through sculpture, painting, photography to film.
Furthermore, the thesis will study the reassessment of its symbolism, the phenomena of film remaking and the meaning behind the necessity for repetition and reinterpretation of the myth.This work should also ascertain when the reality becomes myth and why.My sources of information will not be only the selected films, but specialized literature by authors such as M. Eliade, B. Fořt and E.Fromm.
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The Electrical Enterprises of the City of Prague and Avant-garde Films
Krejčová, Kateřina ; PETŘÍČEK, Miroslav (advisor) ; VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ, Miloš (referee)
This paper, based on archival and period media research, tries to describe the relationship between the Electrical Enterprises of the City of Prague and the Czechoslovak avant-garde in the 1920's and 1930's. The Electrical Enterprises of the City of Prague helped to carry out several exceptional film and intermedia projects through their regular advertising contracts, including the film Praha v záři světel (Prague by Night, 1928), Zdeněk Pešánek's light-kinetic sculpture (1930) or the short experimental film Světlo proniká tmou (Light that Penetrates Darkness, 1931). There are also screenplays in the company archives which have never been realized but demonstrate much about the relationship between advertising and art in the interwar period. The author emphasizes the role of the public's general fascination with electrification, artificial light in the modern city and new forms in the collectively shared public space.
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Rozmanitost FEMME FATALE ve filmu
Naumovska, Frosina ; ANGIOLILLO, Mary Carmel (advisor) ; BERGAN, Ronald (referee)
Tato práce bude zkoumat rozmanitost filmové postavy zvané "femme fatale", od jejího vzniku na počátku filmu noir přes její vývoj v současné kinematografii. Budu sledovat její vyhled napříč časového horizontu osmdesáti let, odhalím rozmanitost jejích fyzických projevů, jakož i různých taktik používaných ve svém nepřetržitém boji proti mužům. Udělám to na základě analýzy jednoho prototypu femme fatale a následně dalších šest ženských postav, z nichž všichni byli kritiky nazváni "femme fatale", nebo "ďáblovy ženy" v rámci různých filmových žánrů. Tyto postavy jsou LOLA-LOLA z roku 1930 z německého filmu Blue Angel jako typická femme fatale; BABY DOLL z roku 1956 z americké černé komedie stejného jména; VARLA z roku 1965 z amerického filmu Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!; ANNIE WILKES z roku 1990 v americkém thrilleru / hororu Misery; LOLITA z roku 1997 z francouzsko-amerického melodramatu stejného jména; VERA z roku 2007 z ruského dramatu Banishment a LISBETH SALANDE-
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Circus elements as transcendental tools in film
Popov, Dimitar ; ANGIOLILLO, Mary Carmel (advisor) ; BERNARD, Jan (referee)
From the very beginning, film announced its duality: the style of the documentary works of the film pioneers - the Lumi?re brothers, stood in
opposition to the illusionistic experiments of Georges Méli?s. As film
language developed, it became clear that film is a mimetic art in a sense
that it possesses the quality of capturing reality itself, which was one of
the reasons why so many people were obsessed by the silver screen. At the
same time the audience was equally overwhelmed by the modification of the
reality previously captured, into a deeper, less profane meaning. These
subtile modifications (misrepresentations) of reality in film, are a
prerequisite for conveying ideas that enrich the narrative and provoke the
audience. Transcendence is immanent to film, and film authors base their
personal style, their own credo, on experimenting, exploring, balancing
within and appreciating this quality. A bundle of tools had been invented
for this purpose, from composition of shapes to combination of colors, from
narrative to editing techniques. A complete and precise list would be hard
to deliver.
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