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Wes Anderson as a part of current pop culture
Hruška, Tomáš ; Dufek, Jiří (advisor) ; Mravcová, Marie (referee)
In my work I am focusing on the personality of the director and screenwriter Wes Anderson, and its impact on his films Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Life Aquatic with Steve Zissow.
There are just a few directors whose style is recognizable after only a couple of scenes. Wes Anderson is one of them. He is considered an original screenwriter whose work has been appreciated by French New Wave. Anderson continues in the tradition at such directors as Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, Louis Malle, Francois Truffaut, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese. He is "cinephile" whose work is full of allusions to works the aforementioned directors. He borrows scenes, copies style, reuses costumes and names, and even directly borrows characters of his popular movies. As a respected screenwriter Anderson oversees every part of his work. From scene construction, through choice of costume and music, to the selection of fonts of captions. The degree of intertextuality in Anderson's work is huge, and doesn't end only with allusions to film. He uses myriad references: literary (Fr. Scott Fitzgerald, J. D. Salinger, Jules Verne), music (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground and Nico), comics (Peanuts), and photography (pictures of J. H. Lartique). These are all his aesthetic inspirations.
This degree of intertextuality is the primary of my work. I analyze individual aspects of Anderson's work, and illuminate his style to readers of his screenplays and viewers of his films. Anderson is influenced by the pop culture, in which he grown up, and makes from it his own unique style and nostalgic world; and with it he formalizes an actual pop culture.
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Dexter - new kind of hero
Titka, Štefan ; Dufek, Jiří (advisor) ; Pozzi, Jaroslav (referee)
This thesis focuses on american television series - Dexter, mainly on its leading character. It tries to describe means how creators of the show establish strange connection between character of a serial killer and the viewer who is "forced" to side with this socially unacceptable killer. This thesis tries to name some of the devices which allows this - in the context of the work of the writers and also in broaden popcultural context.
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Dramatic aspects of the Greek Myths: Médeia
Borecká, Kateřina ; Dufek, Jiří (advisor) ; Dohnal, Lubor (referee)
What is the myth and what can we imagine in the term of mythological person? This is the main question of my work. In the first part of my work I am interested in summary of scientific theories of several disciplines and also in person of Medeia, which is main subject of my work. I am also interested in elaboration of person Medeia in literature because many motion pictures are inspired with literature. Beside I am interested in concrete movies. In these movies is main character mythological person Medeia, Medea, Lars von Trier, Medea, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Medee Miracle, Tonino de Bernardi, Náměstí Spasitele, Krzysztof Kreuze a Joanna Kosová-Krauzeová.
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Scenario - text which doesnt exist
Provazník, Ondřej ; Dufek, Jiří (advisor) ; Ryšavý, Martin (referee)
A subjectively toned essay is focused on relation between a script and its realization. The corpus of the text is mainly made of comparative analyses of scripts and films ? particularly Ryna, Děti noci (Night Owls) and Děvčátko (Girlie), and a theoretical chapter inspired by P. P. Pasolini?s essay The Scenario as a Structure Designed to Become Another Structure. Enclosed is an extensive interview with Ivan Passer, script-writer and director.
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Icons on the Surface
Hrdinová, Veronika ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Kopal, Petr (advisor) ; Dufek, Jiří (referee)
The bachelor thesis Icons on the Surface deals with the film representations of the human body in medieval culture. The main aim of the work is not only to illuminate how real life and real body in the Middle Ages compares with what we have seen in the movies, but also to analyze what the various attitudes towards this topic tell us about comtemporary cinematography and culture. In addition to several particular film analyses working as a case studies, the author examines the key role of body in the process of film narration and a relationship between the body of the film, the body behind the camera and the body of the viewer. The thesis also deals with the problem of capturing history on the movie screen and investigates the impulses that may lead filmmakers to bring the past to the life. The author sees film representation of medieval body as a challenge to filmmakers. In her point of view the medieval body is the body filled with unique symbolic meanings, oscillating in existential amplitudes. Thus, in the film represetations of this body, the artist may invite their audience to experience images on the screen in their basic aesthetic and symbolic qualities.
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Igor Chaun´s Film Path
Kozák, Roman ; Dufek, Jiří (advisor) ; Petráň, Tomáš (referee)
Analysisses of Chaun´s movies with spiritual theme combinated with passages from his personal texts. Their chronological arrangement should create integral edea about what it means Irog Chaun´s "spiritual path" and how it is expressed through his movies.
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