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Blesk - The History and Development of the Most Read Daily Newspaper in the Czech Republic
Dernerová, Žaneta ; Halada, Jan (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This master's thesis aims at the development of the most successful Czech tabloid journal Blesk. It starts with the comparison of Czech and foreign tabloids. Subsequently, it captures the history of Czechoslovakian and Czech tabloids from the First Republic until the present day. This thesis also deals with the journals that unsuccessfully tried to compete with the journal Blesk. Nowadays, the only remaining tabloid journal is Aha!, nevertheless it is owned by the same publishing company as the journal Blesk. Further, the thesis pays attention to the main personalities who helped to shape the form of the journal. It inquires into the development of the graphical shape of the front pages and it tries to interpret their symbolical message, both by the means of qualitative analyses. Alongside that, it deals with the editors and their influence on the development of the journal, its visual form, and the choice of topics on the front pages. The journal Blesk also includes advertisements, and this thesis focuses on that too.
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Czech tabloid photography and the privacy law
Kabátová, Šárka ; Lábová, Alena (advisor) ; Topinková, Martina (referee)
This thesis represents an analysis of the Czech tabloid photography in its most extreme form in relation to the legal framework of the Czech Republic. It covers legal aspects of the tabloid photography both in its theory as well as practice. This thesis therefore includes not only detailed analysis of the legal boundaries but also five case studies. These case studies should illustrate Czech tabloid photography in its most extreme form and bring to attention the ethically problematic decisions of the tabloid press to publish photos of naked celebrities. The case studies of three former top politicians - Mirek Topolanek, Petra Buzkova and Miroslav Macek - and actress Jirina Bohdalova as well as singer Iveta Bartosova would lead one to the conclusion that Czech tabloid photojournalism has had serious problems operating within the ethical boundaries. Those have been broken despite the law as well as the professional code of conduct. The findings indicate the shift in understanding of what is and is not ethical and that this is facilitated by increasing tabloid market share. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Comparism of the Media Portrayal of the Karel Svoboda's death in Mladá fronta DNES and Blesk
Dernerová, Žaneta ; Halada, Jan (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This paper focuses on the medial image of the Czech pop music composer Karel Svoboda's death. It aims at comparing how this event was reported the so-called serious-minded newspapers and tabloids and finding out if the reporting was compatible with the newspapers' profile. The daily Mlada Fronta DNES was chosen as the representative of a serious-minded newspaper, and Blesk as the representative of tabloids. The composer's suicide filled pages of the newspapers weeks after his death. Karel Svoboda committed suicide in January 2007, thus the whole year is analysed. However, the period of three months after Svoboda's death is analysed in the most detail. Due to an intense medial attention, high popularity of Karel Svoboda, and the case of stolen pictures from the suicide scene, media are referring about the event to-date. Event though the period from the early 2008 to the present day (March 31st, 2014) is not particularly important, is also paid attention, albeit marginally. Only print versions of the newspapers are analysed (not internet versions.) Quantitative approach deals with the frequency of reporting of Karel Svoboda's death, qualitative approach pays attention to using language means, particular expressions, and mutual difference of the newspapers. Furthermore, rate of relevance, way of reporting, and...
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Vít Olmer: landmarks of the Czech exploatation - a disorted view of postcommunist society
Blažek, Jiří ; Čeněk, David (advisor) ; Hanáková, Petra (referee)
The following bachelor thesis focuses on film exploitation as a tabloid phenomenon; particularly examines the tabloid tendencies of productions of Vít Olmer in the years after the Velvet Revolution between 1990 and 1995 in Czech cinema. His work reflects the new creative democratic circumstances that arose after November 1989. Olmer effectively used these circumstances to his benefit and as a result he became one of the most productive personalities of the mid-90s. The first part of the thesis consists of a mapping of the status of exploitation film in foreign academia. Based on Pierre Bourdieu's concept, it explores how the logic of "pure taste" influenced the approach to the "tawdry cinema", its research, and last but not least, an attitudes of researchers of (exploitation in) cinema themselves. It then provides an overall view on allied difficulties accompanying exploitation film; the scattered identity unfounded by virtually no theoretical basis remains an essential problem of the analyses of exploitation cinema in the context of film studies. The second part of the thesis expounds a rudimentary nature of the exploitation phenomenon with the contribution of sensationalism, theoretical model used mainly in a media studies. The part proves close relation between the sensationalism, a paradigm...
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On the parodique intention of the magazine "Příšerný večerník" 1929-1931
Kazdová, Renáta ; Sekera, Martin (advisor) ; Krejcar, Robert (referee)
Bachelor thesis "On the parodique intention of the magazine "Příšerný večerník" 1929-1931" maps history of popular press in our countries between wars and its development in our countries and other countries where it started to spread - England, France, Germany and USA. Thesis mostly discusses parody of popular press by "Příšerný večerník", that mimicked popular press, which was issued by Jiří Stříbrný and his concern Tempo. Thesis deals with terms like parody, satire and caricature in Příšerný večerník, which was weekly periodical being printed in Public press room A. Němec. Objective of this thesis is to analyze articles of Příšerný večerník, that handled personality of Jiří Stříbrný and his press concern, then, results of this analysis will be used to determine social construction of reality, meaning social construction of Jiří Stříbrný's personality.
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Language of Tabloids in the First Czechoslovak Republic
Lacinová, Eliška ; Holanová, Radka (advisor) ; Janovec, Ladislav (referee)
The aim of this work is to describe the language of several important tabloids in the First Czechoslovak Republic. Firstly, sensationalist journalism is defined by different criteria and is distinguished from serious journalism. The development of sensationalist journalism in Czech lands is outlined and the press in the First Czechoslovak Republic is characterized. Then, selected tabloids are characterized and evaluated according to the defined criteria of tabloids. Language in journalistic texts is put into broader context of journalistic style and is considered on the basis of the influences that affect the choice of the specific language means. One chapter is devoted to formal and language aspects of headlines of the tabloids. The headlines are described on lexical level, morphological level and syntactic level. The language of the tabloids itself is analyzed on the same levels, on the lexical, morphological and syntactic level. The tabloid press in the First Czechoslovak Republic is compared to contemporary tabloid press and some tendencies of the development of the tabloid press are outlined.
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Verbal and Visual Contents at the Title Pages of Newspaper Aha! and their Semiotic Productin
Protiva, Luboš ; Šafaříková, Radana (advisor) ; Fišerová, Michaela (referee)
The title page is clearly the main representative of the print media, which often determines their success or failure. An even greater justification for the tabloid newspapers whose everyday existence depends on nonabonent readers. A typical representative of tabloid domestic news is Aha!, which creates his main communicator with no real functioning of the theoretical model. This does not mean that it does not work with repetitive characters or signs in this work to clearly identify key elements for creating and thus the theoretical framework that can be used in practice. To this will serve as an analysis relating to the actual Aha!, so comparisons with by the Lidove noviny and Hospodarske noviny. Researched topic will also be given one of the topical issues related images and text.
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Paparazzis and their photograpies in the czech press
Nohejlová, Markéta ; Lábová, Alena (advisor) ; Teplá, Jana (referee)
Paparazzis and their photographies became an essential part of modern journalism however this fact goes along with a certain impatience from the media consumers and also from the media experts. However paparazzis are looked at in a negative point of view, the demand for such photographies is still increasing which naturally makes paparazzis more active. The purpose of this study is to introduce the issue of the paparazzi photography to the wider reader's audience and to analyse its specific characteristics and enclosure the methods which are widely used by the photographers. This study also includes the comparison of czech and foreign paparazzi photography and tries to define the main differences with the focus to czech media market. It also describes the origin and the evolution of scandal-oriented photography and characterizes the press in which the photographies are published and tries to describe the crutial signs of paparazzi photography. In this study there is also a part which focuses on describing the research which the author took part in along with one of the photographers. In the methodological part it analyses the results and in the additional part the reader has a chance to read an interview with czech paparazzi.
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