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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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The First Czech Queer Films from the Perspective of Queer Theory and Reception Studies
Hezinová, Sandra ; Hanáková, Petra (advisor) ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (referee)
The following bachelor's thesis focuses on the queer topic in the contemporary Czech feature cinema. In detail it analyses two films - The Country Teacher and Dolls, which were the first films in the history of Czech cinema who's main characters were ingenuously homosexual. The first part examines chosen films in the context of existing cinematographic tradition and describes the principles on which the film representation of gays and lesbians works. The main part analyses The Country Teacher and Dolls from the ideological perspective and tries to expose, how the heterosexual discourse operate in chosen films. By using the methodology of the queer theory it also describes, how are the information about gender and sexual identity organized. In the following chapter the films are explored in a broader section of cinematographic institution It concerns film's PR strategies and commercial campaigns on one hand and critical responses in the contemporary press on the other hand. The final part is founded by the reception study of queer audience, which coprehend not only the spectator's experience of chosen films, but reception modes and readers strategies as well.
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Shakespeare's Drama and Homosexuality
Mašková, Barbora ; Znojemská, Helena (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
Slowly developing since the 1980's, queer theory became a very important sphere of gender studies of the end of the 20th century and affected not only the very perception of gender categories, but also intepretations of these in texts. The thesis concentrates on queering of the dramatic works of William Shakespeare, describing relations which can be broadly characterized as homosexual - romantic or sexual attraction between members of the same sex, including homoerotic or homosocial aspect of these relationships. After establishing the textual grounds for these readings the text goes on to describe various stagings in theatre, television and film of Anglophone and Czech origin. In order to achieve representative illustration of the problem the established division of Shakespeare's drama is maintained, dividing the plays into three categories - comedies, tragedies and historical plays. One play of each of these categories is then discussed further. These are The Merchant of Venice for comedies, Othello for tragedies, and Richard II as a representative of historical plays. In the Merchant of Venice the discussed relationship is the one of Antonio and Bassanio, examining the possible motivation for Antonio's incredible generosity towards his young friend. The most famous homosexual interpretation of the...
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