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Yugoslavian phantom identity
Nandi, Danijela ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Spalová, Barbora (referee)
Výzkumné téma diplomové práce vychází z medicínského pojmu známého jako "fantomová bolest". Definice na webu Mayo Clinic uvádí, že "fantomová bolest je bolest, která je pociťována, jako by vycházela z části těla, která již neexistuje. Lékaři kdysi věřili, že tento post- amputační fenomén je psychologického rázu, v dnešní době nicméně odborníci mají za to, že jde o skutečné pocity pocházející z míchy a mozku. (Mayo Clinic, n.d.). Předkládaná práce zkoumá ideu "fantomové identity" konceptualizovanou jako identitu, se kterou se mohou ztotožňovat nebo ji jako takovou vyjadřovat obyvatelé již neexistující země - Jugoslávie. Klíčovouotázkou je,zda vůbec existuje něco takového jako společná identita bývalého společného státu, která by byla odlišná od etnických a jiných post-jugoslávských identit. A dále pak, jak vlastně tento proces identifikace funguje a jaké jsou jeho základní element. Práce zkoumá možnost existence takové společné identity nebo jejích prvků, které by se projevovaly pouze (a specifickým způsobem), když jsou tito jedinci spolu, obvykle v kontextu společenských aktivit nebo sdílené emigrační zkušenosti. Hledání identity založené na etnických principech, jako je jazyk či území, identity odlišné od ostatních identit, a to i v rámci jednotlivců různých etnik, je v jistém smyslu provokativní...
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Research of the Heartstopper perceived influence of LGBTQ+ community
Vlašicová, Dagmar ; Kruml, Milan (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
The British series Heartstopper was first available online on the Netflix platform on april 22, 2022, although the graphic novel that became the basis for the series was first published in 2019. It is now one of the most successful series produced by Netflix, also on the social network TikTok the #heartstopper hashtag reached trillions of views. The third television part and the fifth part of the graphic novel are currently being prepared. In this work, I want to focus on the series, and specifically how viewers of the LGBTQ+ community perceive the series. The main goal will be to find out if the series in any way affects their lives and the concept of relationships and if it had an effect on their attitudes towards the majority society judging the LGBTQ+ minority and other stuff. For this finding, I will use qualitative analysis and a form of in-depth interviews with viewers of the series who identify as queer. The main areas that I would like to focus on are a) the relationship of the viewer to individualism, b) the relationship to the LGBTQ+ community, c) the perception of oneself as queer in the majority society.
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Zombie as a Metaphor of Human Society
PÝCHOVÁ, Nela
The bachelor thesis deals with the interpretation of the undead or zombie in popular culture. It examines the features with the help of which their specificity is constructed (even compared to the characters of vampires or artificial beings) and the meanings that zombies generate in specific works. It traces how and how much zombies reflect the state of society (in the sense of the circulation of social energy and related themes) and how do these zombie metaphors change over time. The thesis focuses mainly on film production, but also addresses the question of how these representations differ in different media. The primary sources are the works of popular culture themselves and the main method of interpretation is their interpretative comparison placed in the context of the time the works were created and the socio-cultural setting that can be observed at that time.
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Street Gore Food
Ponomarevová, Daniela ; Zálešák, Jan (referee) ; Mikyta, Svätopluk (advisor)
The thesis Street Gore Food thematizes the banal motif of the excavation inside a common local road, represented by a sidewalk, and themes of fast food culture. The project is set within a conceptual and visual framework inspired by fairground attractions such as the Haunted House or Ghost Train, the trashy premises of B-movie and C-movie horror films. The work thus combines the scary and absurd elements of genre structures, grotesque entertainment and the cheap commercialism of popular culture. Its main subject is the implicit mediation of a street scene: a pedestrian walks on the stone surface of a road while eating a baguette he bought at a fast food kiosk. During his routine walk, when he is bound to mindlessly consume his lunch, he is stopped by a fall into a strange trench. This takes the form of a grotesque digestive system made from the likeness of kitchen equipment used to grind up food, or a bizarre menu having the character of a tasty menu from popular fast food chains. Street Gore Food is thus a stylized 3D model section of a sidewalk created using recycled-found cardboard material and drawing techniques.
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Popcultural form of neo-shamanism
Nesládková, Tereza ; Koudelová, Šárka Basjuk (referee) ; Mikyta, Svätopluk (advisor)
The central theme of my final thesis is contemporary secular spirituality. I am interested in the correlation between the general mood in the globalized society of the Euro-American world and the specific way of dealing with spirituality and mysticism. I assume that, as a result of the widespread feeling of insecurity, the desire to achieve the illusion of community and the need for an excess of order is a fundamental characteristic of our time. It is determined by a highly individualistic regime of contemporaneity, a time of excess spectacles, cynical indifference to reality and illusion. It is a time when visions are lacking and when goods and interpersonal relationships have a short lifespan. The formal form of this neo-spirituality in the context of pop culture also has a defining and telling value for me.
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Czech pop-music as a platform for debating women's sexuality
Bláhová, Andrea ; Kobová, Ĺubica (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
The thesis titled Czech Popular Music as a Platform for Thematization of Female Sexuality deals with young Czech female performers who, through the lyrics of their songs, interviews in the media, and performances at concerts, thematize the female experience. I analysed the selected song lyrics of five female performers, their interviews and notes from the field diary using qualitative content analysis and further interpreted the results in seven different thematic categories. The thesis consists of a theoretical and an empirical part. In the theoretical part, I mainly focus on defining post-feminism and post-feminist sensibility, popular culture and the perception of physicality in the environment of popular music. The empirical part consists of methodology, qualitative content analysis and subsequent interpretation.
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Volunteer Firefighters - a relic from the past or a phenomenon of today?
NOVÁKOVÁ, Michaela
Bachelor thesis called Volunteer Firefighters - a relic from the past or a phenomenon of today? follows up volunteer firefighters and their activities not only in the past, but also current times. This thesis looks into whether the volunteer firefighters department Dolní Žďár is still traditional folk culture or already popular culture. Concurrently is in this work tracked how this department has been changed through the times. It is separated between four parts. In the first one there are explained only basic concepts. The second one is about the history of firefighters. The third part is about a mentioned firefighters department in Dolní Žďár and about the history. The last part includes a separation of culture customs which they still maintain in the village.
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