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Contribution to the Study of Military Non-organized Resistance Movement against Nazi/Fascist Occupied Power during WWII in the Lands of the Visegrad Group in the Big Screen
Blümel, Tomáš ; Klimeš, Ivan (referee) ; Kopal, Petr (referee)
(in English) This rigorous thesis deals with the Non-organized Resistance Movement against Nazi/Fascist Occupied Power during the Second World War in the Historical Film. I analyze selected Films reflecting the Resistance Movement in the eight lands of the Visegrad Group (Poland, Czech republic, Slovakia and Hungary), which were created from the beginning of the 21st century until the present time. In the main part, I describe under what conditions the Film was originated, and the diverse accesses of filmakers to this topic. For aech Film I analyze circumstances of implementation, the artistic quality, shortcomings, and the Display of the Historical facts. Then, I concentrate on the question of what kind of response made the Historical Film, focusing on the reactions of experts and the public.
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The World of Cosmas. The Image of Political Nation in the Oldest Czech Chronicle
Kopal, Petr ; Hošna, Jiří (advisor) ; Bláhová, Marie (referee) ; Téra, Michal (referee)
The world of Cosmas. The image of political nation in the oldest Czech chronicle This work focuses on the image of the political nation in the oldest Czech chronicle - Chronica Boemorum (The Chronicle of Czechs) by Cosmas, "the first Czech historian" [Robert Bartlett, University of St Andrews: "Bohemia made a spectacular debut in this respect with Cosmas of Prague, whose vivid prose style, gifts of powerful characterization and ability to convey action, and the occasional personal touches he allows (such as the yearning picture of his long-gone student days) make him not only a vital historical source for the Premyslid lands but also one of the great writers of the Middle Ages. He initiated a tradition which continued, with peaks and plateaux, throughout the Premyslid period, and this was important, for a native historical tradition was one of the marks of a Latin Christian society."] Cosmas' Chronicle (The Chronicle of Czechs) is part of the context of "national history". Cosmas wrote a scholarly, entertaining, but also politically committed work, presenting a "national program" of sorts. This was no Czech specialty - when we think of Europe in the 11th and 12th century, we see a garden of sprouting new nations, the medieval "spring of nations". The first national states, with clear territorial...
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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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