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Anthony Horowitz´s Horrors for Children
ČADKOVÁ, Andrea
I will interpret a horror genre within the literature determined for children. In particular, I will focus on horror and fantastic stories written by Anthony Horowitz. However, the theoretical part of my diploma thesis will deal with basic description of horror literature development then also with a picture of a child in horror literature and finally with the biography of Antony Horowitz. The next practical chapters will focus on analysis of horror elements in Horowitz' stories. Finally I will analyse the role of the heroes in Horowitz' stories with the connection on theoretical part. The diploma thesis will mainly be based on the collection of short stories called Horowitz Horror and other two books called Groosham Grange and Return to Groosham Grange.
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It by Stephen King and its film adaptations
MAREŠOVÁ, Jana
The bachelor thesis deals with the horror genre in literature and film, specifically with Stephen King´s book It and its film adaptations. These works are analyzed by way of narratological categories such as story, narrator, characters, time, and space. It focuses on differences between literary and film representation, as well as what literary and film means are used by Stephen King or film creators to produce emotions distinctive to horror stories.
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Podivný pán z Providence aneb Literární horor v pojetí Howarda Phillipse Lovecrafta a jeho odkaz v pop-kulturním prostoru
PODLAHA, Roman
The Bachelor thesis is mainly focused on horror literature written by American renowned author Howard Phillips Lovecraft. In the first part, the genre of horror as such and its history from the early beginnings is described. Thanks to this introduction, the reader can easily put Lovecraft's work into a broad context of the pop-culture field. The next part of the work is primarily concerned with basic themes and motives which efficiently define the form of Lovecraft's horror stories. To conclude with, the thesis presents several examples of author's reflection in the contemporary works of art.
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Analysis of Selected Horror Stories by Bram Stoker and Sheridan LeFanu/Analýza vybraných hororových povídek od Brama Stokera a Sheridana LeFanu
MICHAL, Vojtěch
This diploma work topic will focus on Bram Stoker and Joseph Sheridan LeFanu and their Irish horror stories, offering a brief history of the horror genre, with a special focus on stories rather than full-length novels. Although a few of the stories take place in Ireland, most are set outside of Stoker's and LeFanu's native country, so a brief background of Anglo-Irish Protestant population and especially their literary aspirations will be necessary in order to put these stories in their proper context. LeFanu and Stoker clearly associated themselves with Protestants but felt compassion towards the plight of the Catholics. A historical background to the Anglo-Irish religious conflict is therefore important to include as well. These stories were popular and written to horrify in order to satisfy the Victorian reader, so the context of the Victorian readership's historical views associated with Ireland will also be taken into consideration.
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Film and Painting image of Oneiric Genre - The Problem of Interpretation
Malina, Lukáš ; Borecký, Felix (advisor) ; Charvát, Martin (referee)
The subject of the thesis is a comparative analysis of sign production and the interpretation of the film and painting of oneiric or horror genre focused on Vall Lewton's films and their similarity to the painting in creating an atmosphere of uneasiness and fear. Although these works are based on a sign structure, which is an important key to their interpretation, they are not independent of the different interpretations they allow. On the contrary, it seems that the work's intention is to encourage the viewer to complete the art by projecting his own fear into it. This approach is based on Umberto Eco's and Jan Mukařovský's theory of the interpretation, both of which emphasizing the reader's role in understanding the principle of functioning of the work of art. The concepts of the model author and model reader in Eco's theory and the term semantic gesture within Mukařovský's work are sharing numerous similarities.
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Martyrs of the genre Traps
Křenková, Jarmila ; Čeněk, David (advisor) ; Hanáková, Petra (referee)
Bachelor's thesis Martyrs of Genre Traps deals with the analysis of Pascal Laugier's film Martyrs as a unique transgressive work of art, which, owing to its split between genre and non-genre, expands even into very diverse discourses. It establishes its position within the horror as a crisis narrative, the forming of which is influenced by circumstances of the period, and puts it in context of contemporary European horror and integrating creative vision. The analysis itself then focuses on an innovative approach to genre structures defined by the method of radical dramatic cuts, which lies in precise fulfillment of horror subgenre conventions and their subsequent alterations, due to which the conventionalised genre rediscovers its subversive potential. Keywords Horror, Martyrs, Pascal Laugier, Genre, Convention, Inovation, Crisis narrative, Gore film
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Czech feature Films of Horror Genre in Years 1968-1989
Královičová, Jana ; Beneš, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Čechura, Jaroslav (referee)
This bachelor work deals with the issue of the Czech horror movie in the normalization period when cinematography was significantly affected by censorship as a powerful tool of the establishment of the Czechoslovak communist state. The first chapter is examined horror as the term itself and what this concept represents, then origin of horror genre in the European and Czech backround until it becomes relatively stable and well-established genre of world cinema in early twentieth century. In the second chapter I describe a summary of historical development of institutions of Czech Cinematography and the final third chapter deals with individual films that are either horror movies or have strong horror characters. Part of this Chapter is short preview to period before years 1968-1989, and the following period after the year 1989 to these days. The work focuses on the fiction feature films however an integral part of this horror genre in the Czech background are animation movies as well that are described in a short subchapter.
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The comparison of short stories by Stefan Grabiński and Edgar Allan Poe
Slováková, Lenka ; Benešová, Michala (advisor) ; Kolmanová, Simona (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis entitled "The comparison of short stories by Stefan Grabiński and Edgar Allan Poe", is to define and compare the themes found in short stories by Stefan Grabiński and Edgar Allan Poe. The first two chapters will focus on the lives of both the authors and the literary genre of horror. The most notable primary texts that serve as the basis of this part are: Tworczość literacka Stefana Grabińskiego (Artur Hutnikiewicz), Cień wielkiej tajemnicy (Marek Adamiec), Edgar Allan Poe (Roger Asselineau) and Rozbité zrcadlo (Martin Hilský). In the analytic part, the chapters will focus mainly on describing the characters considering the influence of their sorroundings and defining the space and time in which the short stories take place with an emphasis on the themes of house and late night. The texts used in this part are: V domě Sáry a jiné povídky (Stefan Grabiński), Jáma a kyvadlo (Edgar Allan Poe) and Povídky (Edgar Allan Poe). The main goal is to compare the attitudes of both authors towards the literary genre of horror, focusing on their use of genre-specific themes and patterns and to find differeces in Grabiński's and Poe's works. 1
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