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Media reception of Jack Kerouac's writings in Czech periodicals
Šafářová, Andrea ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Novotný, David Jan (referee)
The bachelor thesis Media reception of Jack Kerouac's writings in Czech periodicals aims to chart the Czech media's interest in the work of Jack Kerouac and analyze the critical acclaim of his work. There were chosen especially the reviews and the epilogues for analysis. The goal of this bachelor thesis is reached by the qualitative analysis using the semiotic analysis at the same time. The chapter dealing with life and period historical and literary context precedes the own comparison of the period experts' response - an acquaintance with the author's personality helps to understand the connections of the media reception of his work. Five books by Jack Kerouac were chosen for the analysis in order to - the individual chosen works were written in all decades in which the writer has written actively; the change of the critics' stances to his books from his early career to his creative block is apparent in the text. This bachelor thesis is based mainly on the literary critics' reviews, it draws information from the critical biography Memory Babe written by Gerald Nicosia as well as from the interview with forty-five-year-old Jack Kerouac by the poet Ted Berrigan, published as The Interview with Jack Kerouac for Paris Review.
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Development of journalist as a film character in Amarican cinema
Svoboda, Martin ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
This bachelor work follows the occupation of journalism as it is shown in mainstream American cinema throught the sound era of motion pictures. It describes ways mainstream cinema deals with the complexity of journalism as it needs to maintain its rentability of commercial art. The work points out the possibility of essential simplification of the journalism routine caused just by the same need - making profit. Because to make a gainful movie remains to be the main motivation for producers of films. And the profitable movie must be at the first place underestandable for a viewer. In the result of this the work offers some basic archetypes of movie journalist. The next important issue of the work is a professional ethics which can collide with intentions of movie makers which prefer other moral vallues than real news media. The simplification ad profitability can again be a factor. The last part of the work uses all presented informations to trace the way of the influental theatre play The Front Page and its four adaptations throught the decades of movie making. The main goal of the work is to understand the way journalists are portrayted in the mainstream American cinema which offered so many films about them.
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Media presentment of the president Václav Klaus's second term on pages of Lidové noviny nad Hospodářské noviny
Křapka, David ; Osvaldová, Barbora (advisor) ; Novotný, David Jan (referee)
The main purpose of my bachelor thesis "Media presentment of the president Vaclav Klaus's second term on pages of Lidové noviny and Hospodářské noviny" is to find out how was the former president presented in newspapers Lidové noviny and Hospodářské noviny. The thesis is greatly focused on the Vaclav Klaus itself and I wanted occurrences of his second term to be further connected with historical context. Media analysis itself is not focused only on the Vaclav Klaus but also on the possible impartiality of these two newspapers while they are informing about him. Final output then will be complex media image of the Vaclav Klaus and judgment about the editors of both Lidové noviny and Hospodářské noviny.
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Media Response to the Novel Rok kohouta by Tereza Boučková (2008)
Stupková, Kateřina ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Novotný, David Jan (referee)
The bachelor diploma thesis Media Response to the Novel Rok kohouta by Tereza Boučková (2008) deals with analysis of this novel - which is written like a diary - and the critical reflexion of its literary and non-literary aspects; also with the response it created by its controversial theme of "unsuccessful" adoption of two children of Romany ethnic group. The practical part uses the method of qualitative analysis to analyse chosen critical reviews and also non-literary responses to the novel. It is preceded by the theoretical part in which we deal with authoress' life and work and put the subsequent analysis of the novel to this framework. The theoretical part subsequently defines a concept of criticism, its recent forms and problems connected with a process of interpretation of literary works. In this chapter we draw from works of Ansgar Nünning et al., Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie, or Přemysl Blažíček, Kritika a interpretace. In the practical part we analyse the reviews of Rok kohouta which we found in newspapers and magazines Lidové noviny, Mladá fronta DNES, Reflex, Tvar, Divadelní noviny, Host, Týden, Pražský deník, Literární noviny, Instinkt, Respekt, Právo, Nový Prostor and Revolver Revue. Subsequently in this part we deal with non-literary responses, mostly we analyse the dispute...
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Feuilleton in Lidové noviny sinc 1990 till 1993
Krutilek, Ondřej ; Osvaldová, Barbora (advisor) ; Novotný, David Jan (referee)
Diploma thesis "Feuilleton in Lidové noviny sinc 1990 till 1993" deals with anchoring of traditional journalistic genre in new medial and social context in early 90s of the 20th century . The main aim is to map the systematic development of feuilleton mainly through the determination of the most prominent authors of this period and a systematic analysis of their texts. By this way you can find out how important place this journalistic genre in newspapers held . Although the feuilleton is considered to be a genre that should primarily deal with timeless themes , in a wild post- revolutionary period of 90s feuilleton have to deal with a range of various new social trends , social problems and complications in context of newly emerging political representation. Essay with shall deal with the situation not only as a sober critic but also as a mapping tool time. LN for such work are extremly useful because they have to reestablish them selfs in new official media market in totaly new conditions of market economies . It is therefore an extremely dynamic environment , at which we can illustrate the newly emerging trends. The work also includes a comparison with feuilletons from the end of the samizdat period of Lidové noviny.
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Contractual penalty as a means of corroboration of a debt in business relations
Novotný, Jan ; Černá, Stanislava (advisor) ; Zahradníčková, Marie (referee)
The thesis deals with contractual penalty as a means of corroboration of a debt in business relations. The topic was chosen by the author primarily because of the fact that contractual penalty is a traditional institute of private law. It is frequently used in the law of obligations as an instrument of corroboration of a debt. Therefore its application improves the position of creditor. The aim of this thesis is to scientifically describe and analyze institute of contractual penalty as frequently used tool of corroboration of a debt in the context of the current, relatively new legislation. The work is based on rules of the Civil Code effective since 1. 1. 2014. At the same time, there is a great emphasis on jurisprudence. The work also abounds comparison with the previous legislation, which aims to capture the development of the concept of contractual penalty. The thesis focuses on the most important issues related to the penalty clause. At the same time it offers a comparison with the English legislation in the last chapter. This comparison is particularly interesting due to the diversity of the legal system in the Czech Republic and the legal system in England. The work is divided into eight main chapters, which are divided into subsections according to the content of the topic. The first...
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Engineering geological and geotechnical problems of foundation of highly loaded floors in hall buildings
Chvílová, Martina ; Novotný, Jan (advisor) ; Šmejkalová, Tereza (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with geological, engineering geological and geotechnical aspects of founding (grounding) of large industrial floors. It shows typical reasons, which can cause the problems during and after the construction on the floors of hall objects. The first part of this thesis presents authors own simple classification of conditions, which are connected with construction of hall floors. The second part contains two sets of commented case studies. The short case studies in the first set originate from literature research. In the second set author presents cases that have been visited and assessed by herself. In the third part of this thesis is on the base of three numerical models shown, how the character of the subsoil affects settlements of large, heavy loaded floors. Models were created in Plaxis 2D programme.
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Media responses of literary works with the prison theme of Jiri Stransky
Rozšafná, Michaela ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Novotný, David Jan (referee)
The bachelor diploma thesis "Media responses of literary works with the prison theme by Jiri Stransky" deals with literary works of Jiri Stransky which are influenced by his staying in Communist prison. The work deals with critical reviews of these literary works and with critical reviews on movies which are based on those literary works. It is based on contemporary reviews published in literary and other periodicals. A part of the bachelor diploma thesis is an interview with Jiri Stransky about literary criticism, circumstance and conditions of the origins of his works and about his other activities connected with his staying in Communist prison in the fifties. The interview is included in the annex. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of reviews is included in a practical part of the bachelor diploma. It is preceded by a theoretical part. In the theoretical part we shortly think about the importance of literary criticism but mostly important we explain the conditions that led to the creation of Stransky's work. Thanks documents from The National Archive and from The Archive of Security Forces we can now read about Stransky's arrest and the circimstances surrounding it as well as his 8 years long imprisonment.in Communist prisons of fifties in the bachelor diploma thesis. We focus especially on...
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The Heroes of D Day and Comparison of Their Destinies in Non-fiction Literature
Podlešák, Jindřich ; Halada, Jan (advisor) ; Novotný, David Jan (referee)
On sixth of June 2014 it will be 70 years from the moment, when the Allied armies made the biggest amphibious operation in history. Hardly anybody remembers that times now. But there are still those among us, who witnessed these historical moments personally. Their testimony about the time, where they come from, is for us today absolutely unique. We have a rare opportunity to talk to these people, and that one we must take. Connected with the anniversary of the D Day I set out to explore the view on the landings through the perspective of its veterans. Their memories are as a firsthand information for me the most important. For that I have decided to visit the celebrations personally and find these men. On the background of the historical consequences it is my target to obtain the testimony of the people, who experienced the military operations on the western front personally and were part of them. Together with that there are lots of books of non-fiction literature. The topic of Allied invasion to the Western Europe was processed many times and therefore there opens the possibility to compare the many different methods. With that we put into connection the experience of many members of the American and British armed forces, through which we get more complex view to this turning point of the World...
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