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Reflection of the American Movie Production in the Czechoslovak Media during 1970's.
Šlechtová, Věnceslava ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Dominik, Šimon (referee)
This diploma thesis The image of American Movie Production in Czechoslovak Media of 1970's focuses on how the Czechoslovak media in the 1970's created the public perception of movies which had come from the American distribution to Czechoslovakia or were projected in the cinemas among the years 1970-1979. This thesis analyzes the manner in which selected national print media, influenced by the political trends, being partly designed for the general public (daily newspaper Rudé právo, Lidová demokracie) and partly addressed to specific target groups (film periodical Film a doba, Filmový přehled, Kino), reflected the issue and the contribution of individual movies; all of that under specific political and cultural circumstances. The main theme is the usage of the movie production and its presentation as a contemporary propaganda tool. The analytic part is based on examination of several articles and reviews found in some selected media and connected to the movies or its actors and makers. The analysis is focused on important arguments and assessments in the frame of the contemporary political development. The comparison of how the issue was perceived by the daily newspapers and by the film journals hopes to bring a new aspect and a new point of view to the film and history studies. .
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Czechoslovak politically tendentious film and its promotion on the pages of selected periodicals from 1975 to 1980
Fryčová, Markéta ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Dominik, Šimon (referee)
The thesis deals with media representation of politically committed films produced in 1975-1980. Its prologue brings a brief history of ideologically committed film from 1945 to the beginning of normalisation, while the history is divided into three time phases. Chapter following the definitions of a few basic concepts tries to capture the essential themes of politically engaged films. Afterwards, the focus of this work shifts to the pivotal theme, which is a qualitative and quantitative analysis of media representation of selected tendentious films. The periodicals of film themes that were published in 1975-1980 are listed and characterized at the beginning of this chapter. Qualitative analysis is focused primarily on articles of which was somehow obvious its ideological orientation and propaganda. Quantitative analysis compares the representation of cinematographic works in terms of total amount, in terms of their premiere dates and in terms of the type of individual articles. Quantitative analysis is complemented by the enclosed graphic documentation.
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Media picture of the Film Festival Zlin
Wallek, Miroslav ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Dominik, Šimon (referee)
The objective of my diploma thesis was to introduce an International Film Festival for Children and Youth in Zlin from the media point of view. For my analysis I used both, national and local newspaper as well as other media contents. Through these I focused on five annual years of the festival from the past and present. I found out several differences in the way media informed before and now and also between the contents of national and local media. For example in 1965 the local newspaper brought deep insight into the whole event, they introduced the competitive films and informed on supporting programme etc. By contrast, the national newspaper Rudé právo informed only about the basic facts without any overview although the festival was international for the first time. In fact I can say that the national media tried to create rather negative picture of the festival mostly saying that the chosen films were bad. The diference between local and national media maintained into late 1990s when the festival changed its management. Since this time they cooperate with media which helped it to become one of the most famous children's festival in the world.
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Semiosphere and mythological niveau of commercially most successful movies
Senjuková, Tereza ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Dominik, Šimon (referee)
The diploma thesis is focused at mythology of the current myths and basic semiotic features that appear in these films. It analyses and uncovers mythological structures that create a platform for the mores, and derives conclusions about the present society. It chose 30 most successful movies as a muster to analyze. It is divided in two main parts; the first one is focused at mythological aspects. Firstly, it describes the most frequent myths that appear in the majority of the analyzed movies. In the next chapters, it analyzes briefly some specific movies and points out their most distinct features. The second part is focused at semiotic features that are used by the film makers and tries to explain their meaning. The last part of the diploma thesis compares the Euro-American film production with that of Asia (especially China).
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Critical discursive analysis television series Okres na severu
Szabó, Daniel ; Dominik, Šimon (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
This work is dedicated to exploring television series Okres na severu written by Jaroslav Dietl and directed by Evžen Sokolovský. The series was filmed in 1980 in the Czechoslovak television and falls into the normalization period (1968-1989) in Czechoslovakia. The aim of this study was to conduct a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of series Okres na severu, with special emphasis on the political power of Communism (Marxist-Leninist ideology) and its use of propaganda through the mass media (television). The text analyzed the discourse of the concept of a propaganda series and tried to answer the question of to what extent and whether the strip Okres na severu is a part of the propaganda. The main concept of this text was a discourse that we can define as a set of codes and rules used in producing the meanings related to any topic. Fairclough concept of critical discourse was chosen for its clear division of the so-called three-dimensional discourse (the text, discursive practice and social practice), which focuses on the interconnection of all three relationships (communication events) and the rules of discourse to explore the relationship to society and social conditions. We address the exploration of the concept of normalization, which is used for the second half (1968-1989) of the existence of the...
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The beginning of theTV broadcasting in Czechoslovakia in the years 1953-1956 inreflections of the contemporary press
Mergerová, Ivana ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Dominik, Šimon (referee)
Diploma thesis "The beginning of the TV broadcasting in Czechoslovakia in the years 1953- 1956 in reflections of the contemporary press" aims at evaluating the reception of television as a new media by Czechoslovak authorities and public according to reports in the contemporary Czech press, out of which eight periodicals have been selected. In order to make the understanding of the contemporary context easier the thesis first summarises the development of media impact and presents the most important theories that were known until then. Further it depicts the development of the TV broadcasting from its beginning by the 1950s both in Czechoslovakia and abroad. It also explains the organisation and the legislative frame of the media control in Czechoslovakia after the communist upheaval in February 1948. Follow-up chapters first provide a short characteristics of the Czechoslovak television in each year and then present the selected periodicals and their themes that were most frequently mentioned in connection with the TV broadcasting. It also describes the interventions of the censorship authority, HSTD, both into the TV programm and to the printed news on TV.
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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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The reflection of German cinematography in the Czech film press 1936-1939
Klvaňová, Veronika ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Dominik, Šimon (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Reflection of German cinematography in selected Czech film periodicals from 1936 till March 1939" records in what way Czech film periodicals reacted to the development and changes of the German cinematography in context of political and social transformations both nations underwent during the above-mentioned period. The thesis focuses on whether the film periodicals changed the way they reflected German cinematography during the period of escalating Nazi aggression towards Czechoslovakia and especially in the situation after the acceptance of Munich Agreement. The opening section covers broader historical and media context of Czechoslovakia in the era of the First Czechoslovak Republic. The next part describes and characterizes analysed film periodicals, weekly Kinorevue, Filmový kurýr and biweekly Filmové listy. Separate chapter is focused on German cinematography from its development during the period of mute films, throughout the changes caused by the introduction of audio films, until the German film industry was put under state control by Hitler and the film was used as a tool of Nazi propaganda. The final section deals with comparative analysis of articles in the above-mentioned periodicals reflecting German cinematography. The goal of this thesis is to find out, whether the...
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Czechoslovak Television Broadcasting in November 1989
Durchánková, Tereza ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Dominik, Šimon (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the course of the Velvet Revolution in the Czechoslovak television, it means from 17th to 30th November. This thesis is divided into 2 parts - the situation in the Czechoslovak television and the broadcast in the Czechoslovak television. The first part starts with the chapter in which the brief history of the Czechoslovak television is meant in which we can observe the influence of governmental communistic party on this media. In the chapter which is dedicated to the situation in the Czechoslovak television in 1989 there is meant a few important events which outlines the time period and the situation in the Czechoslovak television before the fall of the communistic regime. Another very important chapter outlines the situation right in the Czechoslovak television in November 1989 which is supplemented by interviews with the contemporary witnesses. In this chapter there are described "Garages" which highly influenced changes in the Czechoslovak television concerned the objectivity of the broadcast of the Czechoslovak television. The second part of the thesis is based on the analysis of the documents from the archive of the Czechoslovak television and on the investigation of the differences between the TV reporting and the real course of the events in November 1989. In...
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