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Variety of Genres within Czech Internet Televisions
Štenglová, Marie ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Lokšík, Martin (referee)
Marie Štenglová, 19. 5. 2017 Abstract The diploma thesis Variety of Genres within Czech Internet Televisions analyses the programme of three major internet televisions in the Czech Republic - Stream, Aktuálně.TV and Playtvak. The aim of the thesis is to detect the differences between the programmes offered by internet televisions and by conventional televisions. One of the principal questions is whether these differences are caused by the specific character of internet television as an online medium, or by the change in the genre perception in general. The programmes dealt with in the thesis are serials A bude hůř and Semestr, a talk show Kafe s Jolanou, a lifestyle magazine Telebrity, and cooking shows Šéfkuchařovy recepty and MENU domů. These formats, belonging to fictional or factual TV, are analysed from the narrative, semiotic, and visual points of view and are compared with each other and also with similar formats in conventional televisions. The theoretical part of the thesis describes Czech internet televisions in the era of media convergence. The research part reveals that the form and the content of the programmes are influenced by the specificities of the internet as a type of medium, but at the same time that the crossing of genre boundaries and the originality of the formats on Stream,...
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The Wire: Neoformalist Analysis and Analysis of Fictional Worlds
Svěrák, Matouš ; Hanáková, Petra (advisor) ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (referee)
In my thesis I analyze the narrative structure, style, fictional world of The Wire, and their mutual relationships. I use neoformalist theory as the basis of my analysis, but I also employ theory of serial fiction by Mgr. Radomír D. Kokeš, PhD., that he introduced in the textbook Intermediální poetika příběhu. I hope that I can help to demonstrate analytical benefits of this young theory. I also discuss historical and economical context that lead to the creation of The Wire, specific position of television network HBO, the producer of The Wire, on the television market and ways in which this position altered the final shape of analyzed series. I reflect the relationship between The Wire and reality, its specifics in the context of the genre of cop shows. I also put The Wire in the broader context of the rest of the output of executive producer and screenwriter David Simon. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Television entertainment in 2013
Jadrný, Petr ; Kruml, Milan (advisor) ; Dorčáková, Jana (referee)
Bachelor's thesis called "Television entertainment in 2013" deals with trends, basic signs and kinds of TV shows belonging to the genre of television entertainment (TV fun) broadcasted in Czech republic. The first and theoretical chapter's goal is to outline some essential terms related to the genre and television entertainment. The rest of the work has been devoted to the actual analysis of individual programs. The work is divided into Czech and foreign series, Czech and foreign game shows, reality television and Czech and foreign entertainment programs.
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Cultural Differences between the British and the American Version of the TV Series "The Office"
Ringelová, Johana ; Vít, Radek (advisor) ; Higgins, Bernadette (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyse cultural differences between the British and the American society on the basis of a British sitcom called "The Office" and its American adaptation. In the first chapter of the thesis we learn the basic information about the sitcom. In chapter two there is an explanation of how could the sitcom became so popular in the US. In the second part of the same chapter we look into general differences in filming the UK and the US sitcoms. With the third chapter the analysis of the sitcom "The Office" starts. It begins with a description of its plot-line and the main characters then it moves on to analyse differences between the main characters. After this, a topic of cultural and social phenomena in the present-day UK and US society is examined. The analysis ends with the discussion on the topic of humour and its differences in the UK and the US version of the sitcom.
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Czechoslovakia in 1968-1977 and its image in serial Vyprávěj
Menšíková, Iva ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Dominik, Šimon (referee)
My dissertation is dedicated to the problem of media construction of history in the case of the television series Vyprávěj. It concentrates on how much the series' adaptation of historical events and normal life in the era of normalization between 1968 and 1977 fits reality by comparing concrete historical events and key societal activities with their adaptation in the series. The work focuses on three special categories - fundamental historical events of that era, people's normal life and the lives of dissidents, with a final objective of finding out how well the series' adaptation matches the true history of the normalization era. First, I delimit the problem of television series in general and address the concept of seriality on the basis of the professional literature. Then I focus on the media construction of reality and representation history in culture, especially in television series. Because the series Vyprávěj addresses recent history, I also mention collective memory. After that I concentrate only on the series Vyprávěj and the problem of normalization in Czechoslovakia, in which era the story takes place. The second part of the dissertation is dedicated to concrete events of the era - how they really happened according to the professional literature and narration of contemporary...
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Media representation of the costruction of gender roles in a total institutionon the example of Orange is the new black
Pavlíková, Tereza ; Baslarová, Iva (advisor) ; Vochocová, Lenka (referee)
The diploma thesis Media representation of the construction of gender roles in a total institution on the example of Orange Is the New Black series is a content research with application of qualitative methods, which analyses and describes the use of feminine and masculine gender roles in a women's prison. The thesis is divided into three parts. In the first part I described the theory, which is essential for understanding the topic. Here I looked into the history and theory of total institutions, prisons and imprisonment. I also put and emphasis on gender, theories of social and media construction of reality and gendered media content. In the second, methodological part I characterized the analysis sample and the research method. I also defined thematic categories, research questions and objectives of the research. The research is based on the ethnographic research of Kateřina Nedbálková. With the help of her analysis I defined the analytical categories, into which I divided the research. I analyzed selected data and from those I deduced relevant conclusions, I answered my research questions and evaluated the given objectives.
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Voyeurism as the characteristic feature of a man in contemporary society
Jarošová, Emília ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Šafaříková, Radana (referee)
The thesis of theoreticaly- empirical orientation is focused on voyeurism in contemporary society. Special attention is paid to the subject in a position of such voyeur and to the reflection of voyeurism by subject himself, on the case of series as artificial privacy, which is ready for voyeur's gaze. The thesis has interdisciplinary character and seeks to explore voyeurism as a society-wide phenomenon and point out its causes in contemporary society. Theoretical part put voyeurism into a broader context of various theories of contemporary (visual) society. In the empirical part, it tries to reveal the causes of voyeurism and especially subject's reflection of this causes and of voyeurism itself. In a final part it tries to sketch possible insights into the issue of voyeurism with regard to results from empirical part. The object of the thesis is to study voyeurism interdisciplinary as a characteristics for contemporary society and connect individual parts and aspects of this problem, which provide us with more complex view, and also attempt to reveal its causes and refelection of this causes by subject Keywords voyeur, voyeurismu, gaze, visuality, series, contemporary society, identification
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