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Contemporary Dance and Ballroom Dance: Different Dance Environments from the Point View of Dancers and Audience
Slavíková, Petra ; Stavělová, Daniela (advisor) ; Halbich, Marek (referee)
The thesis examines the phenomenon of nonverbal communication via dance from the perspective of anthropology of dance. The objective of the thesis is to analyze the dance environment of contemporary and ballroom dance, based on the point of view of the dancers as well as of the audience. I determine the differences in the ways these forms of dance communicate through dance performances. I examine how dance functions as a means of language, on which level the communication is processing and what meanings and messages the audience decodes within the dance performance. The phenomenon of dance in its natural environment is studied semiotically, as a form of language in certain context. The fieldwork method is based on participant observation and semistructured interviews with both dancers and audience. The research was conducted in the studio of Nová scéna - Lidé v pohybu in Prague, which teaches contemporary dance, and in the dance club Akcent Dobruška, which focuses on ballroom dance. Keywords: Anthropology of Dance, Nonverbal Communication, Contemporary Dance, Ballroom Dance, Semiology, Performance, Audience, Meaning.
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Système de la Mode by Roland Barthes: Critique of the Model and Limits of Application
Lorencová, Petra ; Šafaříková, Radana (advisor) ; Fišerová, Michaela (referee)
In this thesis we will try to explain and clarify the main concepts of R. Barthes's semiological method introduced in his book Système de la Mode. The key moments of his model will be confronted with critique of other authors such as J. Culler, T. Todorov or D. N. Rodowick. The principal aim of Barthes's book is to create a precise method which would lead the structural analysis of women's clothing described by fashion magazines. The author believes, that vestimentary features presented in fashion magazines are constituted into a system of signification. Barthes's main intention has been to reconstitute this system of meaning and to create a classification of written garment using linguistic approach and procedures. After considering the critique of the above-mentioned authors, we will try to apply Barthes's concepts to some examples of written garment, taken from current fashion magazines, in order to better understand author's semiological project.
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Myths and stereotypes in advertising photography
Bušková, Helena ; Lábová, Alena (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
The bachelor thesis Myths and stereotypes in advertising photography (Týden and Elle magazines) focuses on meanings carried by advertising photographs and on ways used to connect these meanings with products. The aim of the thesis is to find out, how these images show stereotypes and myths shared in society. The theoretical part of the thesis concerns first of all the theory of representation and theory of signs in semiology. It focuses especially on how these signs work in advertising photography and how the meaning is transferred between displayed objects. Furthermore, it introduces the theory of myth in the work of Roland Barthes and possible involvement of ideology and stereotypes in advertising photography. The analytical part examines advertising photographs in Týden and Elle magazines, using the semiological method. The aim of the analysis is to find out, how the concepts and ideas in advertising photography differ between a serious and a lifestyle magazine. It points out the main stereotypes and myths, that appear in the photographs, with an emphasis on gender stereotypes, which prevail there. The analysis focuses on the ways men and women are pictured in terms of activity and passivity, a role in life, expected characteristics and profession. In conclusion, the thesis compares the two...
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Phenomenom analysis of internet videoclips as a cause of cyber-bullying
Janáček, Tomáš ; Wolák, Radim (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
The work relates to the increasingly frequent cases of attacks on young people who act in their own videos, which are becoming the social network phenomenon. Young people are presented through a variety of audiovisual contents which is then aggressively attacked and massively shared. This paper seeks the causes of such behavior of recipients. In the first part I describe the context in which videos are produced, what is the impact and response. I refer to the reaction of media and ordinary Internet users. In the analytical part I use different tools through which I try to penetrate deeper into the structure of those videos, find out what fail and try to reveal where is the cause of fascination and motivation to aggressive incursions. I watch mainly symptomatic scope of these videos and looking how it relates to society and ideology. I analyze videos primarily in terms of neoformalistic analysis, semiology, mythology,cultural studies, feminist theory and psychoanalysis. Through these methods I discover latent dimensions that video clips can possibly contain. The study focuses only on videos in which appearing young girls. One of the objectives of this study is to identify precisely the possible influence of gender and how the reception is motivated by sexuality.
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Le Corbusier's Architectural and Urban Visions in perspective of Semiology
Štěpánková, Anna ; Marcelli, Miroslav (advisor) ; Váša, Ondřej (referee)
of Diploma Thesis "Le Corbusier's architectural and urban visions in a semiological perspective The subject of this thesis is a semiological analysis of Le Corbusier's text Towards a New Architecture. It methodologically follows semiological conceptions of Ferdinand de Saussure and Roland Barthes. The main methodological source is a work of French theoretician of architecture and urbanism François Choay, The Rule and the Model (1997), in which she has stated three paradigms, which according to her, influenced forming of modern urbanism as an autonomous science: genre of architectural treatise, utopia and scientific discourse. For each of these discursive forms she has identified characteristic signs. Le Corbusier is considered as a symbol of modern movement of architecture and urbanism, who broke away from an old tradition and brought to realm of architecture and urbanism a new insight. The fundamental question of this thesis is, whether this innovative approach could be found also in his texts, in the manner how Le Corbusier wrote about architecture and urbanism, or whether Le Corbusier followed an old tradition. This question should be answered in the course of searching for the signs of mentioned paradigms postulated by F. Choay.
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