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The Representation of Richard Nixon in Works of Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer/Zobrazení Richarda Nixona v díle Huntera S. Thompsona a Normana Mailera
REMEŠ, Jakub
The thesis aims to uncover a relationship between less-known books from Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson, who belonged to a group of New Journalism, with the American history of the 1960s and 1970s. In first part of the thesis, both writers are introduced and the historical background is clarified. The second part illustrates the atmosphere of the 1972 presidential election in the USA and the personality of Richard M. Nixon which is based on the perception of Mailer and Thompson and supplemented with the information from books about American history. In the end, the student compares what the chosen works have in common and what differs. The concluding part summarizes how the books reflect the historical events and why it is still worthwhile reading them.
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Lifestyle image in the pages magazine Květy (1960-1968)
Nováková, Radka ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Sládková, Hana (referee)
Thesis Lifestyle in magazine Květy (1960 - 1968) deals with the lifestyle in the years 1960 - 1968 in Czechoslovakia from the viewpoint magazíne Květy. The work examines how the magazine, presented lifestyle in the reference period and how they influenced the ideas of readers' lifestyles. Due to the great range of lifestyle related work has focused solely on housing, leisure and fashion. In the field of housing, work has concentrated on available housing, household furniture, decorations and articles of daily use. In the fashion most attention was focused on the clothing, hairstyles then in fashion and beauty treatments. Leisure time has been reduced to activities designed for relaxation, entertainment and distraction, prevailed in the area of recreation, sports activities and activities of various interest groups. Lifestyle in the analysis of the text was analyzed using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods of content analysis. Quantitative analysis is mainly concerned with the development of a range of lifestyle topics. Qualitative analysis provides information about the content of a particular lifestyle topics. The paper also deals with the theoretical embedding the concept of lifestyle, a lifestyle of Czechoslovakia in the 60s 20th century, the magazine examined the...
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Otka Bednářová and her publishing activity in 1960'
Cukrová, Nela ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
This master's thesis focuses on the journalistic activity of Otka Bednářová in Czechoslovak Television in the 1960s. Its aim is mapping the activity of the editor in the stated period. Otka Bednářová was one of the first women which started using investigative element. It was new in the Czechoslovak Journalism. The work is divided into two parts. In the first part the reader learns about the life of Otka Bednářová before and after her work in Czechoslovak Television. The second part is the most comprehensive and includes brief information about the history of Czechoslovak Television and about the origin of Television Journalism in this period in Prague, Ostrava and Brno. There is also a history of the broadcast "Zvědavá kamera" including its authors. The author of the work presents individual pieces of work where Otka Bednářová collaborated. The author of the thesis dedicates to the style of Otka Bednářová's work, to the topics she was choosing and to her working procedure in the processing of individual programs. It is based mainly on preserved pieces in the Czech Archive Television as well as on the available scripts. During processing current feedback in periodicals, the author used the home archive of Otka Bednářová where she stored clippings from newspaper articles which were published about...
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The Role of African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement in Missississippi in the 1960s: Fannie Lou Hamer
Navrátilová, Barbora ; Sehnálková, Jana (advisor) ; Kýrová, Lucie (referee)
The bachelor's thesis "The Role of African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s: Fannie Lou Hamer" deals with the status of African American women in the early 1960s, when the ideas of the Civil Rights Movement started to slowly penetrate the isolated state of Mississippi. The study uses the biographical method as a probe into this closed society. The object of this probe is Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the local activists who despite racist attacks and gender and class discrimination demonstrated her courage and leadership skills and became the spokesperson not only of the Mississippi Free Democratic Party, but also of the Civil Rights Movement itself. The case study on Fannie Lou Hamer examines how African American women were involved in the Civil Rights Movement and what obstacles they had to overcome as activists on a daily basis. The first part of the thesis focuses generally on the early waves of activism in Mississippi and on the tactics that local leaders used to mobilize local African Americans. Besides the analysis of the role of African American women in grassroots activities, the thesis also addresses the racial, gender and class discrimination. The second chapter examines the impact of these obstacles on one African American woman - Fannie Lou Hamer....
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Otka Bednářová and her publishing activity in 1960'
Fabiánová, Nela ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
This master's thesis focuses on the journalistic activity of Otka Bednářová in Czechoslovak Television in the 1960s. Its aim is mapping the activity of the editor in the stated period. Otka Bednářová was one of the first women which started using investigative element. It was new in the Czechoslovak Journalism. The work is divided into two parts. In the first part the reader learns about the life of Otka Bednářová before and after her work in Czechoslovak Television. The second part is the most comprehensive and includes brief information about the history of Czechoslovak Television and about the origin of Television Journalism in this period in Prague, Ostrava and Brno. There is also a history of the broadcast "Zvědavá kamera" including its authors. The author of the work presents individual pieces of work where Otka Bednářová collaborated. The author of the thesis dedicates to the style of Otka Bednářová's work, to the topics she was choosing and to her working procedure in the processing of individual programs. It is based mainly on preserved pieces in the Czech Archive Television as well as on the available scripts. During processing current feedback in periodicals, the author used the home archive of Otka Bednářová where she stored clippings from newspaper articles which were published about...
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The magazine World Literature in the 60th 20th century.
Růžička, Štěpán ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This bachelor thesis concerns at content analysis of World Literature magazine in years 1960-1969, which was the era of enourmous development in this periodical and also in a culture of Czechoslovakia. Magazine World Literature is regarded in context of political and cultural dogmatism of regime after February 1948 and also in context of liberalization in 1960s. The work of the redaction of the magazine and its choise of translations and book reviews is analysed quantitatively and also qualitatively and compared with tendentions of State publisher of literatura, music and arts (Odeon) and also with influences of the official socialistic ideology. The main objective of this thesis is to find out what the influence of magazine World Literature was on publishing translations in context of historical and cultural conections in 1960s, especially focused on English and American literature.
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The failure of the New Left in the US: the case of SDS
Vítek, Tomáš ; Kralj, Dejan (advisor) ; Calda, Miloš (referee)
This thesis The Failure of the New Left in the US: The Case of SDS analyzes the causes and reasons of the failure of the New Left in the United States. The left-leaning students who were discontent with the social order and reality of the country gathered under the idea of participatory democracy in a group called Students for a Democratic Society. Their aim was to change and improve the system through universities being agents of social change, thus making a clear difference with the Old Left. The worker no longer stood in the center of social progress, but the student did. SDS promptly plunged into several burning issues of the era, such as civil rights movement and inferior position of the blacks and poor in the society. The Vietnam War and antiwar protest movement have also been great issues in which SDSers directed their energy. As the Vietnam War escalated in terms of American soldiers being sent overseas, the intensity of student protests grew as well. Inevitably SDS resorted to usage of violent means of expressing dissent and clashed with the forces of the establishment. The thesis seeks to answer what reasons, events and realities led them to finally adopting revolutionary Marxism as their flag ideology. Soon after that SDS broke up and its once great influence waned away.
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Fixtures, Fittings and Visual Art Objects in the Building of the Former Czechoslovak Federal Assembly
Konopčíková, Petra ; Biegel, Richard (advisor) ; Klimešová, Marie (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the building of the former Federal Assembly, designed by architect Karel Prager (1923-2001). The thesis depicts the circumstances relating to the new Parliament building and the resulting architectural design. The target is to map out the fixtures, fittings and visual art objects in the building. It was necessary to look up in- dividual artists whose works of art had been initially designated to decorate the building. The original artistic concept was created in the sixties during the time of political relax- ation that culminated by the Prague Spring. However, the concept had to be substantially altered in connection with the start of subsequent "political normalization" when most formerly participating creative artists became officially unacceptable. Important sources of information concerning visual art objects for the building were periodicals from the time of construction, monographies of individual artists, catalogues from their exhibitions and dialogues with those who were directly involved. The thesis does not merely enumerate individual works of art in the building but it considers them both with regard to their creators' other visual art objects and the cultural and political situation.
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