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In Pool of Blood. Crime Films and its Production Cycles between Various Participants of Czechoslovak Nationalized Cinema (1945-1965)
Mišúr, Martin ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee) ; Hain, Milan (referee)
The starting point of this dissertation thesis is a question relating to the assumptions of fictional, long-length crime films in the environment of the nationalized Czechoslovak cinema. The underlying research covers in depth the period between the years 1945 and 1965. The time period covered by this thesis begins with the moments of the May liberation and the August nationalization in Czechoslovakia and ends with the phase of a partial exhaustion of production cycles and genre designations. Since the mid-1960s, these films have established themselves and have successfully withstood numerous production and socio-political collisions for several decades. The main objective of this thesis is to clarify what was behind this genre development. Methodologically, the thesis applies the genre theory and benefits specifically from the research into production cycles adapted to the domestic environment. The definition of a production cycle - a thematic pattern occurring in a production application that is implemented regularly and without interruption over a period of several years - is adopted from the already existing definitions formulated by researchers who proposed this term (Rick Altman, Steve Neale), as well as (and especially) from those researchers who developed the relevant stimuli in their complex...
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Sexual Identity as Cinematic Subversion: the Discourse of New Queer Cinema
Kajánková, Lucia ; Hanáková, Petra (advisor) ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (referee)
The thesis proposes the New Queer Cinema chapter of film history as a paradigm of queer film's subversive practices. The theoretically and historically focused first part establishes the term queer, expounds its possible applications to film in the realm of queer film studies and in the third chapter critically introduces the 'new wave' of queer film New Queer Cinema. The analytical part assigns queer and its possible functions as its basis for inquiry. It consists of two parts: the first performs the formal-content analysis of the pivotal film Swoon (1992); the final chapter builds on its conclusions and examines the corpus of New Queer Cinema films along four analytical cuts in order to describe how they produce the queer discourse. The final output of the thesis is an open model of prospective approaches to queer film.
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Czech Teen Comedies of the 2000s
Hezinová, Sandra ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (advisor) ; Szczepanik, Petr (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on Czech teen comedies produced during the 2000s and the production practices associated with them. The thesis defines a teenage film as a film that not only thematizes adolescence, but primarily targets an adolescent audience. In other words, the film's creators were consciously aiming at teenagers. The basic conceptual framework used to select individual films is the category of film cycle, which is defined as a series of typologically related films produced over a limited period of time, while also conforming to the same genre conventions of a dominant genre trend. The selected films are analyzed at a specific historical moment with emphasis on the wider context of the contemporary film and media industry. The methodological approach is based on production studies and industrially oriented genre theory which views genre primarily as an industrial concept that should be examined in relation to the film business. The analysis of the production practice used in the teen comedies is grounded in interviews with the film creators. This thesis aims to show how individual producers used the business opportunities available to them at the time, how the industrial conditions are reflected in their work, and how they thought about the concepts of genre and film cycle while...
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George A. Romero's zombie films and question of its interpretation as a social critique
Bažant, Štěpán ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (advisor) ; Flígl, Jiří (referee)
This thesis provides a critical reflection to three different approaches to interpretation of zombie films by George A. Romero. Concurrently new interpretation is included. It is based on methodology through genre theory and uses instruments of postanalytical philosophical tradition. Critical reflection of existing approaches provides a view on problems of interpretation of the monster and its ambiguous position within narrative thanks to mutual exclusiveness of these interpretations. My own interpretation aims to examine limits of conception of Romero's films as social subversion. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Film Shelves: Private Video rental stores in the early 1990s Czech republic
Krejčířová, Anna ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (advisor) ; Česálková, Lucie (referee)
The subject of this thesis are now almost extinct brick and mortar video rental stores that were a crucial film distribution window between theatre and television premiere only a few decades ago. The research focuses on the arrival of video rental stores run by small private entrepreneur in Prague 1990-1995 right after the country reinstalled its market economy. The text tries to reconstruct, describe and analyse six particular places of business via interviews with their owners and further archive materials - and in addition maybe ascertain reasons of their closure / continuance after 1995. Part of the thesis is also a list of 90 addresses of Prague video rental stores from around that time and basic figures of their arrangement.
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Once Upon a Time in 1994: Distribution and Medial Reception of the Film Pulp Fiction in the Czech Republic
Bergl, Jan ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee)
This thesis examines the process of the distribution and media reception of the film Pulp Fiction directed by Quentin Tarantino in the Czech environment during its premiere in 1994 using methods of oral history and discourse analysis. This example is the resource for the wider range of questions relating to the position of American/Hollywood cinema in the determined time and space, to the contact of two different cultures and mechanism of acceptance/non-acceptance of each other in the turbulent period of cultural and economic transformation after the Velvet Revolution in the year 1989.
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Forever the Moment: elements of emancipatory ambition in south korean society (on film)
Fecskeová, Zdenka ; Španihelová, Magda (advisor) ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (referee)
The aim of this bachelor's thesis is an analysis of the film Forever the Moment (Yim Soon-rye, 2008) which captures the real events of the Summer Olympic Games 2004 but is also an exploring to social and intimate lives of Korean people, nominally women. The study analyses the film in a view of feminist theories and the theories of representation of woman in sport. Its objective is also to describe a traditional confucian society to the western spectator and the woman's position in it. The work analyses in detail two main themes in the film - korean feminism and its sport focus with the main role of woman athlete, each separately in two chapters. The epilogue focuses on emphasizng the importance of the film Forever the Moment in korean sports cinematography and its impact on the evolution of korean cinema "for women".
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Film Festival Finále Plzeň
Černý, Ondřej ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (referee)
This thesis is devoted to the film festival Finále Plzeň which showcases to its visitors every spring a complex summary of Czech cinema. Even though the festival's main objective are new inland movies and TV shows, which are presented and awarded within special competitive sections, in its accompanying programme there are countless noncompeting archive and foreign films. This is due to the festival's dramaturgy that has been completely overhauled and helped with the festival's integration into European film festival net. The main focus of this paper is the current reimagination of this festival under the new management that organizes this event since the year 2016 and aims towards a complete renaissance of this traditional film event.
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Soviet Film Comedy of the Late 60's and the 70's
Něudačina, Natalija ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee)
The subject of this thesis is a genre analysis of Soviet film comedies of the late 60s and the 70s that is based on the reception and production history data. The aim of this research is to grasp this type of comedy as a specific political and socially-cultural phenomenon of the Eastern bloc and its relation to Soviet popular culture. A methodology of the genre analysis will derive from Rick Altman's semantic-syntactic approach, which will allow us to describe the chosen genre group as a complex genre trend set in the unique social, cultural, economic and in this particular case also ideological context, to follow the development and fluidity of the genre trend, as well as to find and to compare mutual attributes of the chosen films. The analysis will not be based solely on the group of the most watched films, but also on the production data focusing mostly on the films' budget, as well as dramaturgic supervision and censorship. Another part of the diploma thesis will be based on the gathered reception data such as contemporary media response and viewer ratings, focusing on the important role that Soviet film comedies played in the period and partially continue to play in the present-day Russian popular culture. Fusion of all analytic parts shall bring us to the basic definition of the Soviet film...
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Hyperrealism of Frank Tashlin: Neoformalist Film Analysis of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Koutesh, Marek ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (advisor) ; Přádná, Stanislava (referee)
The aim of this thesis was to analyze the film Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? by the director Frank Tashlin. The initial hypothesis was that this film goes beyond the contemporary Hollywood production and uses highly self-reflexive practices. For the analysis of the film, the approach of neoformalist analysis was chosen, which methodology was defined by Kristin Thompson in the publication Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis. The first section provides a theoretical and methodological reflection of the tools of neoformalist analysis. Following on from this, the methodological approach to film history is reflected, based on the concept of the classical Hollywood cinema and on the book by Robert C. Allen and Douglas Gomery Film History: Theory and Practice. The next chapter summarizes the historical context and influences that have contributed to the shape of the artistic work. In the analytical part, the exposure of popculture structures is described as the central principle of the movie, and with the help of the tools of neoformalist analysis, the author tries to demonstrate how it manifests itself in the different components.
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