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From Scribe to Ministerial Counsellor: The Involvement of Jiří Mařánek in the Cinematography of the Forties and Fifties
Kupková, Marika ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Skopal, P. (referee) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
1 Abstract The thesis focuses on the involvement of Jiří Mařánek in the management of the Film Department of the Ministry of Information during the years 1945 - 1948. His ministe- rial engagement is related to the contemporary strengthening of the importance of literary preparation of the film and to the associated state dramaturgical supervision. Jiří Mařánek belongs to the circle of writers connected on one hand through their affiliation with the interwar avant-garde movements, on the other hand by their postwar involve- ment in the power apparatus that ended by the political and economic changes in the late forties and fifties. His professional fate speaks about the changes of cultural policy of the state, about the institutional development of the cinema and about the relations between literary and cinematic arts. It is a testimonial of what a successful professional career meant for a man of letters and what relationship it had to the cinema. We follow therefore a relatively brief but breakthrough episode of a writer and retired officer in the position of the Ministerial Counsellor, and we try to place its course and causes into a complex network of historical and social contexts and personal motivation. Focusing on this personality unburdened neither by a historical uniqueness, fundamental role of...
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The Beginning Years of Film Symphony Orchestra (FISYO)
Poláková, Ivana ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Szczepanik, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with the inception and initial operation of the Film Symphony Orchestra (FISYO) which was the only ensemble that was used for recording film music for local feature film production since 1943 till the early nineties. Besides the information about the orchestra itself this thesis also includes the introduction to the field of music dubbing of films in Czechoslovakia since the silent era and also the curriculum of the first four FISYO conductors: Jindřich Bubeníček, Václav Smetáček, Otakar Pařík and Milivoj Uzelac.
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Television drama in Czechoslovak specialized discourse of the 1950s and 1960s
Jiřiště, Jakub ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee)
Thesis deals with basic tendencies and preconditions of the aesthetic development of Czechoslovak television drama of the 50s and 60s through its specialist reflection. The method of a discourse analysis which is applied to the area of aesthetics and inspired by the concepts of Michel Foucault and Achim Landwehr maps locally- and time-based field of the discourse about television drama and penetrates surface relations between subdiscourses (television criticism, television theory and influences of institutions) with the aim to capture the formative order of the discourse. A basic axis of the analysis is the evolution of the concept of television specifity which will be tracked through the crucial discussions of the period. They reflects a gradual revision of initial assumptions about the formal emancipation and the legitimacy of art of television. The next step of the analysis is the mutual comparison of solutions at which these discussions arrived via various aspects and methods. This way a second goal of the discourse analysis will be fulfilled - to trace the essential unity of the discourse which is represented by the complex of jointly asserted requirements about the ideal form of the television drama. The complex is possible to consider as an implicit poetics of Czechoslovak television drama...
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Film and regime. Official and unofficial reflection of normalization film-making
Shehatová, Amira ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Přádná, Stanislava (referee)
In my bachelor's thesis I deal with the reflection of selected normalization films of Věra Chytilová and Jiří Menzel in official as well as unofficial press. I am not concerned with the films on their own but rather with the reactions in newspapers, samizdat and exile periodicals. First I outline the contemporary historical and social context. Further I pay attention how did the changed political arrangement influenced the official culture and media. Then I continue with alternative culture description which includes printing the samizdat periodicals. To complete the picture I include the texts from exile periodicals as well. Next two chapters of my thesis examine the particular texts in detail. I was mainly interested in how the critics percieve the same films from thier different ideological, social and geographical position. What they can agree on and when on the contrary their views are completely different. Key words: film, normalization, samizdat, exile, Věra Chytilová, Jiří Menzel
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Josef Střecha, director of photography (3.11.1907, 29.3.1985)
Novotná, Magdaléna ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Přádná, Stanislava (referee)
This submitted bachelor thesis deals with the life, work and activities of the director of photography Josef Střecha. He was the author with a broad remarkable creative range, however, the film historiography have not researched his work up to now. Josef Střecha was creating in the years 1929 - 1971. In his career he made more than 60 feature films. During the World War II he also worked in Germany for the companies Bavariafilm and UFA under the pseudonym Strecher. The aim of my bachelor thesis is to introduce this active director of photography and his work and to follow the wider evolution of the artistic-technical profession of a director of photography. The important part of the thesis is the heritage arrangement of Josef Střecha and the creation of his personal fund, which can be seen in the attachment.
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Patterns of Czech Film-dramturgical Poetics
Csicsely, Lukáš ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on Czech academic film dramaturgy. Dramaturgy in this sense refers to the activity of the dramaturge in the creation of a film work of art. His performance is theoretically grounded upon a long tradition beginning with Aristotle's Poetics, generally called poetics, and this thesis consists of a comparison of such film poetics published at FAMU, within the department of scriptwriting and dramaturgy, examined through the perspective of Prague structuralism, and with the mentioned traditions on background. No other theoretical work has dealt with this material so far, so my aim is to map the basic problems of this closed field, with an emphasis on how the tradition is adapted to the specific requirements of film.
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Film Industry and the Federalization of Czechoslovakia
Fořt, Ferdinand ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (referee)
The main aim of this bachelor's thesis is to explore and describe changes in Czechoslovak film industry resulting from federalization of Czechoslovakia, which was implemented by Constitutional Act no. 143/1968 Col. On Czechoslovak Federation, effective from 1st January 1969. In its first part the thesis deals with general political atmosphere of fault year 1968 and with particular steps, which had led to the federalization. The second and the most essential section explores the process of separation of film industry on federal principles. The author takes into account legal acts, which implemented this separation and economical side of the separation as well as proposed measures, which were not put into practice and also partial matters connected with federalization such as level of integration of film distribution and foreign affairs. The third part focuses on federal division of Union of Czechoslovak Film and Television Artists, which was however shortly after cancelled by the new political power that had risen after occupation in August 1968. The last section presents brief excursion into the situation and organization changes (not only) in cinematography at the outset of so-called normalization.
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The First day of Czechoslovak Television's Channel Two.
Čížkovská, Jana ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Szczepanik, Petr (referee)
The thesis follows the preparation of Czechoslovak TV's Channel Two, covering a period of twelve years from the start of the preparation process in 1958 till the first day of Channel Two's regular broadcast on May 10th 1970. The thesis' area of interest covers the proposals, plans and ensuing organisational measures that resulted in the historical event of launching a multi-channel television broadcast in Czechoslovakia. The period of 1958-1970 is split into sections, according to the stages of preparation for the launch. The introductory part of the thesis deals with the political grounding for the implementation of a multi-channel broadcast in Czechoslovakia, as well as with the initial steps in creating the technological support for Channel Two. The second part introduces the evolution and finalisation of the Channel Two project and its organisation in relation to the majority Channel One. The following chapter(s) focus on the formation of Channel Two's independent head division as well as the department's evolution until the launch of the regular broadcast. This section covers the changes in personnel within the department, an outline of its key creative collaborators and supplies a schema of how Channel Two's production was organised. The final part of the thesis offers an overview of...
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Reception of Slovak Czech film in the Press in the period 1948 - 1969 (with special attention to the image of the Germans)
Racik, Marek ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Přádná, Stanislava (referee)
My thesis focuses on the reception of Slovak fiction film in the Czech press from 1948, the year when Slovakia started to produce their own fiction films regularly, until 1969, when the social changes after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact troops ended the whole period. There was a notion in the Czech society that Czechoslovak film is a Czech film and the thesis focuses on this notion as it was understood by the Czech film critics. My goal is to find and explain, when and how the Czech film journalism started to recognize the differences inside the Czechoslovak film and pointed out the unique identity of the Slovak film in the Czech press. Furthermore, I examine how the Slovak film was rated by Czech film critics in the Czech film scholar press, film magazines and newspapers. The first part of the thesis examines the Czech-Slovak relations in the light of newly established Slovak fiction film. The second part focuses on the complex approach of the Czech film critical journals towards Slovak film, influenced by the state power between the years 1948 - 1960. The third part reflects the appearance of the topics concerning SNP and the so called Slovak New Wave, which lasted during two separate periods between the years 1960 - 1969. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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FAMU in 1989-1993
Žaloudková, Klára ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (referee)
Film and TV School (FAMU) is one of the three faculties of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The Academy educates its students in the field of cinema, television, digital media and communication. It was founded on the 28th November 1946. In my work I have focused on the period after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 to 1993 in which FAMU was seeking its own new identity and shape. I have decided to border this period by the year 1993 because of the changes in legislation. The new Act 273/1993 provided some new perspectives on production, distribution and archivation of audiovisual works which led into the cancellation of the state monopoly in this field. At first I have focused on the history of the faculty and the most important moments which led to changes. I have listed the professors of the most important creative departments so I was able to provide a more detailed analysis of the key topics. One of the most important parts of my thesis is FAMU during the years of the Velvet Revolution because it is the period that brought the biggest changes. I have followed in providing the analysis of the faculty after the transformation including the breakdown of the staff and the appraisal of the inner structure. My sources were film literature and film magazines and also my interviews with the contemporary...
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