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Genesis of film education in Czechoslovakia
Micajová, Nikola ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (referee)
My bachelor's thesis examines the historical development of film education from the late 1910s to the period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in Czechoslovakia. I explore its beginnings through courses and "kinoškoly", as well as numerous proposals for a film academy. During this period, I particularly observe the activities of institutions involved in film education for youth and their influence on the film industry. Within the context of the protectorate, I focus on analyzing the changes in the concept of the film academy and the key actors in this process.
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The Women of Czech Film: Mapping the opportunities and working conditions of young female filmmakers in the Czech audiovisual industry
Čtrnáctá, Adéla Jenovéfa ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (advisor) ; Česálková, Lucie (referee)
Keywords Feminism, gender equality, Czech film industry, sexism, sexual harassment in the workplace and in the university environment Abstract This bachelor's thesis deals with mapping the conditions of young women in the Czech film and audiovisual industry (within five years of graduation) and female students of Czech film schools. The work is based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative research, in the form of a questionnaire and subsequent group interviews. This research asks the basic question whether the respondents feel that they are getting into situations where their gender is an obstacle or, on the contrary, an advantage.
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Film amateurs club in Kutná Hora in 1978-1989
John, Viktor ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (advisor) ; Česálková, Lucie (referee)
This bachelor thesis is dedicated to a film amateur club in Kutná Hora, also known as Kutná Hora's Film studio, between the years 1978-1989. The goal of this thesis is to describe the film amateur movement through the perspective of everyday life and to try to understand how a life of a film amateur could look like during normalization years in Czechoslovakia. This thesis answers questions of what was the role of amateurs organized in a club, how they were formed by the club, how they realized themselves apart from the filming itself, how they cooperated together or how they shot so-called societally-ordered films. The primary sources are State Regional Archives in Kutná Hora and interviews with longtime serving head of this club, Bohuslav Kučera. The first two chapters embed this thesis to a wider contextual framework withing amateur film which influenced the Film studio. In the next chapter we describe through archives and oral history method diverse activities and tasks which an amateur in Kutná Hora had to conduct on daily basis. Furthermore, the thesis is concerned with the actual creative practice within the club and with a short description of the development of the club after Velvet revolution and its further disorganization. This thesis shows the everyday life of amateur filmmakers in...
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Late stalinism and the attempt at a social reform against the backdrop of life and work of Jan Prochazka
Bárta, Jan ; Michela, Miroslav (advisor) ; Mervart, Jan (referee) ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (referee)
The aim of the presented doctoral thesis is to characterise the time period of Czechoslovak history between the late stalinism of the fifties and the attempt at reform of socialism in 1968 through the life and work of Jan Procházka. Procházka as a writer, screenwriter, office bearer and a political activist markedly influenced the political and cultural events of his time. The subject matter of this thesis is to map his activities and strategies with which he entered the discussions about the socialism reform in the sixties, when he fully established himself in the art milieu. The work is based on two approaches, the first being the theory of social capital by the french sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and second the cultural-historical approach. The main source is Prochazka's opus (all his written works) and other texts closely related to his persona (opinions of art critics, reactions of party directorate, daily press). This biography doesn't follow a typical scheme such as birth, life, work, death, but in accordance with the chosen theory the main character is inserted into the respective social fields. His functioning within these social spaces makes the content of the individual chapters, ranged chronologically. Moreover, the thesis deals with Prochazka's functioning in the Czechoslovak Youth...
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Viktor Tauš's cinematic style and the Rats TV Series analysis
Ramzerová, Anna ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (advisor) ; Szczepanik, Petr (referee)
Bachelor thesis Viktor Tauš's Cinematic Style and the Rats TV Series Analysis intends to present the content-related, and particularly the formal aspects of cinematic style of Viktor Tauš as the film and a television author. In the thesis I strive to demonstrate typical features of Tauš's work and subsequently interpret and analyse them based on the neo-formalist film approach applied by Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell. The primary analysis is focused on the television mini-series Rats (2020), whereas the rest of Tauš's author work - Canary (1999), Clownwise (2013), Blue Shadows (2016) and Monsters of the Shore (2019) - are utilised as references for main motifs of the thesis. At the outset of the thesis, I briefly examine the production context of the series and afterwards I deal with the social context as well. The main part of this thesis, the film style analysis, consists of three chapters. The most extensive one is dedicated to mise-en-scène of the series. The remaining two chapters are focused on its image and sound. Primarily sources are two semi-structured interviews with the Rats filmmakers - author Viktor Tauš and actor Cyril Dobrý.
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The Phenomenon of Cross-dressing in Czech Cinema
Chaloupková, Petra ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (referee)
This thesis aims to address the forms of crossdressing appearing in Czech post- revolutionary cinema, and moreover, to approach images of the abovementioned cultural practice as a potential space for a subversion of the cisheteronormative system. At the same time, such portrayal of crossdressing can be percieved as an opportunity to strengthen existing gender norms. With the help of film analyses led by the thoughts coming from the gender studies, and with the usage of queer methodological tools, the text deals with the mechanisms of preventing the invasion of queerness, of regulating subversive activities, as well as of functional strategies for resisting the normative order. Lastly, it offers a typological breakdown of seven chosen feature films that are integrating the crossdressing element, and it evaluates them according to their openness to queer reading and the amount of freedom, which is granted to their gender-nonconforming characters. KEY WORDS Crossdressing, gender identity, transgender, queer, transition, disguise, femininity, masculinity
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Changes of documentary films distribution at local cinemas in digital age
Černý, Martin ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (advisor) ; Bauer, Šimon (referee)
(in English): This thesis deals, in frame of new film history, with the changes in Czech film distribution system connected to cinema digitalisation in the Czech Republic. Generally, the paper focuses on the influence the technological changes have on film distribution and its development in the Czech Republic. Considering the recent emergence of new genres and types of films, the work examines, on the example of documentaries, what effect these changes have on the variety of the Czech digital cinemas programme offer. The case study contained in the thesis explores a process of creating film programme in cinemas of average size Czech cities which do not have to compete with multiplexes. Selected programmers of these cinemas were interviewed in semi-structured interviews in terms of qualitative research, with the aim to determine the decisive factors influencing programming of documentary films in these cinemas. As seen from this thesis, the range of films in the distribution circuit has extended in two ways after the emergence of digitalisation and this development considerably affected the work of cinema programmers. Namely the wider availability of commercially successful films, generating great numbers in box office became a competition for the alternative films (documentaries included). Unlike...
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Film Industry and the Federalization of Czechoslovakia
Fořt, Ferdinand ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (referee)
The main aim of this bachelor's thesis is to explore and describe changes in Czechoslovak film industry resulting from federalization of Czechoslovakia, which was implemented by Constitutional Act no. 143/1968 Col. On Czechoslovak Federation, effective from 1st January 1969. In its first part the thesis deals with general political atmosphere of fault year 1968 and with particular steps, which had led to the federalization. The second and the most essential section explores the process of separation of film industry on federal principles. The author takes into account legal acts, which implemented this separation and economical side of the separation as well as proposed measures, which were not put into practice and also partial matters connected with federalization such as level of integration of film distribution and foreign affairs. The third part focuses on federal division of Union of Czechoslovak Film and Television Artists, which was however shortly after cancelled by the new political power that had risen after occupation in August 1968. The last section presents brief excursion into the situation and organization changes (not only) in cinematography at the outset of so-called normalization.
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Film Screenings at CVUT
Henzler, Richard ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (advisor) ; Čeněk, David (referee)
Title: Film Screenings at ČVUT Author: Richard Henzler Department: Film Studies Department, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague Thesis supervisor: Mgr. MgA Tereza Czesany Dvořáková The thesis presents a history of film screenings at ČVUT using the method of oral history. The aim of the thesis is to present the operation of the film club in years 1984 until 1990. Interviews with the founders of the Film club Richard Kohout, Martin Řezníček and Jiří Neuman were used as a primary source. They were complemented by information obtained from the club's internal records and by contemporary newspaper and literary accounts. The main contribution of the thesis is the fact that this topic has not yet been processed and the thesis can be thus used as a basis for further research in the field of oral history and history of film. The theoretical part of the work introduces the method of oral history, its methodology, advantages and shortcomings. The following chapter summarizes a number of projects, both Czech and international, which are using the method of oral history and whose primary interest lies within the field of film studies. The practical part gives a chronological account of the operation of the film club and is supplemented by information from the interviews and from the records of the...
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Information resources of film studies area accessible on WWW
Růžička, Jiří ; Bratková, Eva (advisor) ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (referee)
Tématem práce je zmapování informačních zdrojů v oboru filmová věda v prostředí WWW. Cílem práce je analýza a hodnocení jednotlivých tipů těchto zdrojů, a to především těch, které jsou dostupné v českém, slovenském a anglickém jazyce. Jednotlivé zdroje jsou hodnoceny z hlediska funkčnosti, struktury zdroje a záznamu filmů a osob. Hlavní pozornost je zaměřena na čtveřici nejužitečnějších zdrojů z pohledu autora práce, tedy Internetovou filmovou databázi (http://www.imdb.com), Filmové databáze online, Česko-Slovenskou filmovou databázi (http://www.csfd.cz) a Mezinárodní databázi filmových archivů FIAF. Tyto informační zdroje pak jsou detailně popsány. Práce se dále věnuje menším informačním zdrojům, které jsou unikátní zejména díky svému užšímu zaměření a mapují různé geografické oblasti světa, popřípadě různé žánry a přinášejí aktuální zprávy ze světa filmu. Výsledek práce ukazuje, že kvalitních zdrojů v prostředí WWW je velmi mnoho, proto se autor práce pokouší tyto zdroje roztřídit a vyhodnotit jejich účelnost.
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