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Contact, Conflict, Transformation. Poets as Filmmakers, a Comparative Analysis.
Pololáníková, Hana ; Česálková, Lucie (advisor) ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (referee)
The bachelor thesis examines the film medium as a tool of poets when expanding or sharing their work. Terms such as 'poetic film', 'film poetry' or 'videopoetry' can be understood as a broad meaning for works that are both narrative and use a specific poetic aesthetic, or experimental, performative and rhythmic works, or works which arise as remediation of a literary poem. The study deals with several contemporary authors who are primarily active or established as writers and poets and decided to develop their texts further through a moving image. To the question of the interaction between the text of the poem and the moving image in a poetic film, we will look for answers through a comparative analysis of short films by a total of eight contemporary European poets. Similarly, the theoretical basis of the work is being taken over mainly from contemporary authors in the field of film- and literary studies. Firstly, we will summarize the basic knowledge from research on the concept of a poetic film and the historical development of the genre. Then also the topics of amateur work, the concept of the poetic function of Roman Jakobson and the properties of writing as a medium follow. In the comparative analysis, the films are divided into categories in which we observe the contact of the original poetic...
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Aesthetics of the Crack-Up: Digital Kříženecký and the Autonomous Creativity of Archival Footage
Anger, Jiří ; Česálková, Lucie (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee) ; Denson, Shane (referee)
Would it be possible to do film theory "from below," from the perspective of a film object, of its multifarious details and facets, however marginal, unintentional, or aleatory they might be? Could we treat figurative and material accidents in moving images as full-fledged actors with distinctive aesthetic forms, functions, and effects and discernible origins and genealogies? The body of work that poses these kinds of questions surfaced with the digitization of the "first Czech films," made by Jan Kříženecký between 1898 and 1911. While the digitized films benefit from high-definition picture quality, achieved by scanning the materials in 4K, the deformations present in the materials were not effaced but made all the more visible in the image. Thus, formerly analog elements impinge upon the form and content of the moving images to such an extent that they create speculatively and aesthetically generative figures and shapes. With the help of digital technology, we can isolate and zoom in on these features yet also experiment with how they can be reimagined. The aim of this dissertation is to account for the weird shapes that emerge when the material elements interact with the figurative content of the moving image. In Kříženecký's films, the individual deformations (including the intrinsic features...
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Film Shelves: Private Video rental stores in the early 1990s Czech republic
Krejčířová, Anna ; Bláhová, Jindřiška (advisor) ; Česálková, Lucie (referee)
The subject of this thesis are now almost extinct brick and mortar video rental stores that were a crucial film distribution window between theatre and television premiere only a few decades ago. The research focuses on the arrival of video rental stores run by small private entrepreneur in Prague 1990-1995 right after the country reinstalled its market economy. The text tries to reconstruct, describe and analyse six particular places of business via interviews with their owners and further archive materials - and in addition maybe ascertain reasons of their closure / continuance after 1995. Part of the thesis is also a list of 90 addresses of Prague video rental stores from around that time and basic figures of their arrangement.
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The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Film
Padevětová, Marie ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (advisor) ; Česálková, Lucie (referee)
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to examine the film Anthropoid (Sean Ellis, GB / USA / CZ, 2016) from the perspective of its plurimedial network. This concept comes from two German literary academists, Astrid Erll and Stephanie Wodianka, who also apply it on the film medium. The "density" of a plurimedial network is connected to the persistence of a film in a collective memory of a certain group - in case of this thesis, of the Czech society. The denser the plurimedial constellation is, the longer can the medium persist in the collective memory. Such network can be consisted of purposely aimed marketing strategies, coming from within the public campaign of the film, or spontaneous, neutral or biased reactions from journalists or society on preparation works on the film, and on the film itself. The plurimedial constellation is also possibly influenced by wholly pragmatic facets, such as, where or when the premiere took place, the design of film posters or any other products connected to the film (e.g. merchandise). The artwork, which has its constellation strong enough, so it perpetuates the act of remembering in people's minds, call the authors a memory film. This thesis chooses from the broad spectrum of possible ways of examining the plurimedial network of a film a method of media...
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Historical poetics of Jim McBride's work in the context of diary film
Koutesh, Marek ; Čeněk, David (advisor) ; Česálková, Lucie (referee)
The aim of this thesis was to clarify the reasons of the formal diversity that can be observed in selected films by director Jim McBride. The hypothesis is based on the fact that these movies are characterized by different tendencies of independent American cinema in the 50s and 60s. The aim of the work was to prove that similar diversity of stylistic devices was accepted and even supported in the ecosystem of American underground. The starting point for historical research and analysis was a poetics of cinema approach outlined by David Bordwell in Poetics of Cinema. From this perspective, the thesis examines the immanent and distant factors that may have influenced McBride's works. After an introduction of these theoretical starting points, working hypotheses connected with individual films and with the creative ecosystem were defined. Formal heterogeneity was demonstrated on Shirley Clarke's work and in Marie Menken's film Notebook. The chapters are followed by an analysis of three McBride's movies. A closer analysis of selected categories of film form confirmed the hypothesis that the films are really distinct and that their director interacted with various traditions and norms.
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The Relationship of the Roman Catholic Church to Cinematography in the Czech Lands between 1918 and 1948
Hasan, Petr ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Česálková, Lucie (referee) ; Šebek, Jaroslav (referee)
After the First World War, the Catholic Church intensified its interest in a world that was becoming ever more secular and began to look for new means of actively and creatively taking part in cultural affairs. Cinematography was one of the areas in which this trend became most apparent. It was shortly after the invention of cinematograph that various ideas and plans regarding how to deal with film began to emerge among Catholics. Consequently, the Pope gave his blessing to community-based initiatives and included them in his plan in the encyclical Vigilanti Cura. This study seeks to familiarise the reader with a multifarious mixture of interesting, and often contradictory, voices and opinions that were heard from Czech Catholics with regard to film. Catholic activities in the field of film are divided into three basic areas: production, classification and distribution, with the first area concerning the effort to make their own Catholic films. This study demonstrates the problems faced in this endeavour by presenting the difficulties in the making of the film Saint Wenceslas and the consequent relationship of Catholics to the completed work. The classification of films from the Catholic point of view was carried out systematically and in a coordinated manner. The study deals with the origins of...
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