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Domestication of TV news
Fišerová, Sylvie ; Reifová, Irena (advisor) ; Bendová, Helena (referee)
The rigorous thesis deals with the question of how and why are the evening news used in the family environment. It approaches this topic from the perspective of auditorial approach of cultural studies, takes for granted the existence of autonomous active audience. It informs about the key studies of social use of media, e.g. the typology of social use or role of gender in the attitude to media, and it deals with the question of relation of children and media. Further part of work is devoted to the news, its characteristics and the possible social use of this format by specific members of the family.These concepts are consequently used as tools for the research itself. The research of social use of the evenenig news is carried out with the help of qualitative grounded theory. In the empirical part the author arrives to the following conclusions: the main motivation for watching news is informative use, though at the same time it is used as a coulisse to other activities, most often bathing children and preparing or eating dinner. The most widespreaded type of watching news might be described as "monitoring", when television news viewing is secondary to some other primary activity. Viewers in this mode watch the broadcast just enough to keep up with what is happening on the screen. Evening news is not much...
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SOMEWHERE BETWEEN A DOCUMENTARY FILM AND A COMPUTER GAME
Turečková, Kateřina ; Kratochvíl, Jaroslav (advisor) ; BENDOVÁ, Helena (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the creative process of a documentary titled Ilusion authored by director Kateřina Turečková. The form of the documentary emulates the aesthetics of computer games. In the first part it clarifies the motivation of the author to make this sort of movie, then it goes through the documentary movie art form and analyzes also computer games.
Subsequently it describes the proces of creation of individual scenes of Ilusion and the whole finished version of the movie.
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Recent Chinese Independent Documentary film (1990-2018) and its Relantionship to Practice of Censorship
Honcoop, Haruna ; BENDOVÁ, Helena (advisor) ; LOMOVÁ, Olga (referee)
This diploma thesis describes the situation of independent documentary film in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over the last three decades (1990–2018), dividing the period into three phases. Focusing on key filmmakers and their work, the thesis illustrates the obstacles and opportunities that independent filmmakers navigate when producing and distributing films outside of the system of censorship. The PRC’s censorship system is described in a short historical review which culminates in the recently-issued Censorship Law of 2017 and its practical provisions, thus clarifying the mechanisms of surveillance and regulation which affect how documentary filmmakers work. Important film festivals and centres of the independent documentary movement are described in chronological order, as well as the disappearance of such activities following the accession to power of the current ruling elite in 2012. Because recent conditions prohibit the free distribution of non-censored films, this thesis pays attention to important support provided by international documentary film festivals, their programmers and curators, and archivists and researchers from Western universities. Finally, the thesis analyzes filmmakers‘ reactions to the current situation, which range from ignorance and obedience, through self-censorship to protest resulting in imprisonment or exile. Finally, the thesis mentions the methods in totalitarian China of nowadays used in controlling the filmmakers and the complete society through digital technologies.
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Female heroines in the selected Marleen Gorris' films
Vlasáková, Klára ; BENDOVÁ, Helena (advisor) ; KAJÁNKOVÁ, Lucia (referee)
The master’s thesis focuses on three selected films by a Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris (A Question of Silence [De stilte rond Christine M.], Antonia, and Mrs. Dalloway). The text examines the way the film female characters are depicted, their relationship to the patriarchal society they live in and the forms of their possible resistance to a given social order. An ideological analysis used for that purpose enables to explore both values, beliefs or prejudices of a certain content, as well as motivation and power relationships the content is based on.
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The Principle of Mary Sue Phenomenon or How to Not Create a Too Perfect Figure
Kabelková, Adéla ; BENDOVÁ, Helena (advisor) ; KAJÁNKOVÁ, Lucia (referee)
Masters diploma thesis The Mary Sue Principle or How Not To Create A Too Perfect Character is focused on the literary phenomenon of fan literary work – fan fiction – and its specific genre, Mary Sue. For this genre are typical almost ridiculously/absurd perfect characters, which attract all of the attention to themselves and often have excessive superpowers on their disposal.
The theoretical part of the thesis outlines the reasons for the creation of Mary Sue and explain specifics of this phenomenon. Moreover, it describes describe dramaturgic rules, which are supposed to help authors to create a character. The analytic part of the thesis then analyzes three movie and TV series characters – Jon Snow from Game of Thrones, Ray from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Grace from Peaky Blinders – which can be used to demonstrate components of a Mary Sue type of character. The goal of this thesis is to propose the use of the Mary Sue principle as a dramaturgic tool for character building.
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The Coming Out Process of Queer Male Teenagers in Contemporary European Cinema
Hosenseidl, Radek ; BENDOVÁ, Helena (advisor) ; VAJCHR, Marek (referee)
This thesis discusses the similarities in coming-out depictions in
contemporary European cinema focusing on teenage and coming-of-age queer
male characters. While based on understanding the coming out as a sociological
phenomenon with strereotypical development, it allows for deviations both in
reality and in film. The thesis further aims to identify common elements in films
with coming-out narratives: repetitive narrative techniques, themes, characters
and motives. Using the analyses of three films, the thesis also examines the
importance of coming-out stories in broader film narrative.
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Digital space from a postcolonial perspective
Knapp, Dalibor ; BALADRÁN, Zbyněk (advisor) ; BENDOVÁ, Helena (referee)
This master's thesis analyses digital space from a postcolonial perspective. It starts with defining the postcolonial perspective itself - its interests, historical context, sources and the methods it uses. Then it examines the concept of colonialism, colonial thought construction, ideas and accompanying phenomena and their application in the coloniser/colonised relation in the colonial systems. The next part presents digital space as the space of social structures, cathegorises its habitants and describes their characteristics. The author then explores, compares and analyses processes that are natural to colonialism in digital space, specifically in relation between the digital north and south, at the level of the digital identity and in the process of labour in digital space.
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