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Between adaptation and homage: Blade Runner as a filmic rendition of Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Shahinyan, Sona ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Higgins, Bernadette (referee)
This thesis will be concerned with comparing and contrasting the cyberpunk novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? written by Philip K. Dick in 1968 with Ridley Scott's film called Blade Runner. However, most attention will be directed toward the film's original release and final re-release in 2007. The received opinion and editorial claims tend to come into clash when referencing the movie as either an adaptation or an inspiration, and this disagreement was turned into our research question: Did Ridley Scott and his screenwriting team create a periphrastic adaptation of the novel, or can it be more accurately regarded as an inspiration or a variation on a theme? The first part of the thesis will define the parameters by which the research will be evaluated at the end. The second part of this thesis will encapsulate plotlines, themes and events, motifs, and symbols, and it will also dissect each essential character and their portrayal in each medium. Finally, the additional scenes from re-releases of the original film will be analyzed in regard to their relevance to the plot of the novel. The most recent adaptation, Blade Runner 2049, will also be mentioned in regard to its side character, Rick Deckard, and the parallels found in his successor, K. Keywords: Adaptation, Blade Runner, bounty...
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Push: Translation and Stylistic Analysis of Selected Passages From the Novel
Hašková, Nikol ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Lancová, Klára (referee)
This bachelor's thesis aims to explore the unconventional register used in Sapphire's novel PUSH. The practical section of the thesis is dedicated to translating the first chapter and the final two paragraphs of the novel from the English language into the Czech language. The theoretical section of the thesis focuses on stylistic analysis of the translation, examining various textual elements such as register, vulgarisms, idiomatic expressions, and place names. The practical section also considers and explains the decisions made during the translation process. The thesis also includes chapters dealing with Sapphire's biography and a brief introduction to translation theory, discussing the theories of Jiří Levý, Dagmar Knittlová, Theodore Savory and Eugene Nida.
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The Depiction of Gender in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Mládek, Pavel ; Topolovská, Tereza (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
This work concerns itself with the Discworld series of the British fantasy author Terry Pratchett, and with how sex and gender are depicted in it. It mainly looks at the books Feet of Clay (1996), The Fifth Elephant (1999), Monstrous Regiment (2003), and Raising Steam (2013), which deal with these topics the most openly. It attempts to reveal whether the series presents more the view that sex and gender are tightly intertwined, or even that gender does not exist at all, so-called gender critical view, or whether gender and sex are more or less independent of each other and the characters in the series may present a gender different from the one assigned to them at birth. At the same time the work examines whether the depictions of gender evolve as the series go on or not.
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Christian and Pagan Symbols in Old English Literature
Pedret, Sarah ; Higgins, Bernadette (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the influence that Christianity and the original Anglo-Saxon Pagan religions had on each other during the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon Britain. Above all, it deals with the coexistence of Christian and pagan symbols in the texts of Old English literature. The theoretical part deals with the historical context of the time in which the examined texts were written. It focuses on the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon Britain and the continuing influence of the original pagan faith and its symbols on literary art, mainly the epic poem Beowulf. The practical part of this work deals with the analysis of the text of the epic poem Beowulf, the symbols used in it and their meanings.
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The First World Social Media War: Impacts of Social Media Networks on the Russo-Ukrainian War
Ženíšek, Jan ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Špelda, Petr (referee)
This thesis aims to investigate the possible implication of social media networks to warfare. Chiefly in terms of the application of social media networks as a supplementary instrument in the scope of conventional warfare. The research is based on the development of the first year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The main data source for the analysis is information about Authors and their Tweets from the social media network Twitter. For the purpose of the research, a custom data collection algorithm was developed to obtain a sample of more than two million Tweets that were published in connection with the Russo-Ukrainian war or Tweets that further interacted with such content. The gathered data from Twitter are analyzed in the context of two additional open-source datasets containing information about the individual attacks by both belligerents and the volume of international donations to Ukraine using volumetric analysis. Additionally, Twitter-related data are processed using social media analysis to determine the key individuals and groups in the social network via measuring betweenness centrality and modularity optimization. The thesis concludes that social media networks have the potential to impact a broad audience and mobilize international support. Further, the research discovered evidence that...
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