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Depiction of Czechoslovak and Czech presidents through caricature
Běhavá, Aneta ; Cebe, Jan (advisor) ; Groman, Martin (referee)
This thesis focuses on the depictions of Czech and Czechoslovak presidents in caricature. It deals with the timespan between the foundation of Czechoslovakia and the present, within which it examines the cartoon representations of presidents. The thesis deals with the period of the First Czechoslovak Republic, the Second Czechoslovak Republic, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the period from 1945 to 1948 (also known as the Third Czechoslovak Republic), the communist regime of the 1950s and 1960s, the Prague Spring, the era of normalization and the Velvet Revolution. It aims to describe the reasons why and how each president is depicted in one way or another within a given era, or in some cases why he is not depicted at all. The thesis pays special attention to the issues of freedom of the press and speech and also to the laws against the defamation of the head of state, and sees them as direct factors influencing the depictions. The thesis further aims to place the cartoons in their socio-political context and deduce from it what was the public perception of each head of state in the various stages of our history. The research sample is primarily based on period caricatures in the press, containing a wide spectrum of opinions and periodicity. The thesis also uses file catalogs of the most...
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Compared portrayal of a family in the sitcoms of 50' with the current ones
Běhavá, Aneta ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Sládková, Hana (referee)
The work deals with the comparison of the 4 US sitcoms from the fifties and from the present. For the example of four sitcoms: Father Knows Best; Leave It to Beaver; The New Adventure of Old Christine and The Middle; it tries to track changes in the family, the status of individual family members and behavior among family members. It also tries to map the wide-social changes in the form of emancipation, values, norms and stereotypes. Likewise it tries to observe technological changes both in content and in the form of shooting. For better understanding, the first part describes the history and development of the sitcom genre, as well as the integration between genres and its reflection on society.The second part deals with the description of listed sitcoms and the results from the observations.At first in the work are discussed the details of the changes in the family then the changes in the broader context of the whole society.
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