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Concept of popular music studies for the Czech academic context - contribution to the development of Czech media studies
Pospíšil, Michal ; Reifová, Irena (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee) ; Opekar, Aleš (referee)
The topic of popular music has not been granted much attention in the Czech academic environment so far. Even less attention has been given to popular music in the Czech study of media. When analyzing media, the role of popular music is routinely neglected and its effects overlooked. The thesis surveys arguments that support music as a relevant subject for Czech media studies and determines whether the current exploration of popular music could provide useful knowledge for expanding the coverage of existing media studies tradition in the country and possibly for improving it. In its core, the thesis provides a picture of Czech musicology (especially on its popularization edge, sensitive to popular music) and the Anglo-American tradition of the study of popular music, popular music studies. It identifies and critically assesses the strengths and weaknesses of each area with regards to the study of media. In conclusion, the thesis confirms the need for the Czech popular music studies as a necessary component of the study of popular culture in the context of media studies. It suggests areas for further research and highlights its potential pitfalls - especially problems with application of Western theories in local context, the romantic ideology of rock and disproportionate focus on the exceptional....
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Czech Press Photo 1995-2005 : picture content analysis of winning photographies in General News and Spot News categories
Vitoušová, Valérie ; Lábová, Alena (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
Bachelor thesis "CZECH PRESS PHOTO 1995 - 2005: Picture content analysis of winning photographies in General News and Spot News categories" deals with the content of the photographies, which have won first eleven yearly awards of the photographic contest Czech Press Photo in the categories General News and Spot News. The aim of this work is to analyse, which events were so important that they gave rise to the winning photographies and which topics frequently appeared in the pictures. The second monitored aspect is the photography's location of origin and probation or refutation of the hypothesis, whether the local events provide enough visually appealing events or whether the photographers have to seek the photographic topics abroad.
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The Performance of Masculinity in the Milieu of Czech Extreme Metal
Hradecká, Anna Marie ; Zdrálek, Vít (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
Using a method of reflexive ethnography, this thesis deals with a question of masculinity performace in the Czech extreme metal milieu (to be specific I am concerned with the brutal death metal and related sub-genres). Participants of the brutal death metal subculture either in the position of performers or audience are with a very few exceptions men. Brutality, harshness, extremeness and other values are the main aesthetic criteria, which - as we can observe while doing the research - the participants connect with a coherent collection of ideas about a certain ideal of dominant manhood. To achieve these values to the greatest extent possible the musicians use particular musical features and topics of the compositions; and so does both the musicians and the audience via their visual image, with using specific kind of behaviour and having fixed movements and dancing during the music production. On the basis of an analysis of these values and means of their manifestation I am concerned with the question of what specific characteristics the masculine identity, which is performed in the given subculture, has. My research data show that these are: 1) mutual affinity with the other participants, 2) power as an ability of an aggressive attack as well as one's own endurance, and 3) coarseness, lack of...
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The photography in the Respekt Magazine
Svatá, Kristýna ; Lábová, Alena (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
Bachelor thesis "The Photography in the Respekt magazine" deals with using photographies in this medium. It emphasizes the period of the first half of the year 2006, when the magazine serialized as a broadsheet, and the period of the first half of the year 2008, when it changed its format to the magazines' one. The purpose of this thesis is to subscribe, how the redaction deals with the pictorial part of the magazine's content - it observes what is behind the creation and what happens with pictures before they are published. It subscribes the role of the photographer and the picture editor as well. The next issue, which is pointed out, is the analysis of the photographic content in both periods under consideration. It shows changes which were connected with the formats' change, with new possibilities for photography in the magazine. This analytical part of my thesis is led by the chapters which present the history and the contemporary version of the Respekt magazine. The next chapter deals with photojournalism and its classification.
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Visual memory of Knížecí Pláně
Novák, Ondřej ; Lábová, Alena (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
In this bachelor thesis, I will attempt to describe and document a very important sociological issue in modern Czech history: expulsion of the German population from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War. The main method that I will be applying is visual sociology. Obtained knowledge from the research are classified in the historical and sociological context overlapped to the present. I have chosen specific time and place so that I can demonstrate issue of the expulsion of German population from the Czech borders area. I realize the extent of this issue and also that it is not possible to analyze the issue as a whole on dozen of pages. Still, I think that based on the findings of this research, readers will be able to imagine conclusions in a broader context and that this knowledge reader will be able to create an image of this issue in the present and its impact on the landscape and society. For the main part of this thesis I consider my photographs of the place, on which this work reports. On the basis of the theory of visual sociology, I consider these pictures the most important part of this work. On the basis of these photographs, the reader (or viewer) stores the information that is absorbed and his subjective perception of these images creates feel and the views of the problems with real...
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Instant photography on social sites
Valentová, Marie ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
This thesis concentrates on Instagram, social network wich follows on tradition of Instant photography as well as on content of this network. Instagram globally has expanded very widely in quite a short period of time. It is a phenomenon wich affects objects of photography, redefines the pictureworthy and overall aesthethics. The number of photos uploaded on Instagram increases by millions everyday and photographs here acquire specific functions and follow specific trends. This thesis defines the network itself, its genesis, principles on wich this network works, Czech enviroment of Instagram and types of users. To help with definition of this networked photography Instagram here is anchored in the history of technical evolvement of photopraphy. Secondly this thesis exmines content of Instagram both on general basis and practicaly. With the method of content analysis this thesis determines the most common objects of Instagram photography and it follows with defining general aesthetics with quantitative method of research.
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The Band HRISTINA and Queer Aesthetics in Today's Russian Popular Culture
Kaznacheeva, Anna ; Havelková, Tereza (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on work of queer musicians in Russia during the period following the approval of the so-called gay propaganda law (2013). This law has been broadly criticized both in Russia and abroad and has notably influenced the development of domestic queer culture. The work examines social and cultural background of the post-soviet period in relation to queer aesthetics focusing on music production by the band HRISTINA as a case study. The band was founded in 2017 in Moscow. Apart from composition, singer and lyrics writer Hristina Zarembo is engaged in posting in social media on her sources of inspiration and the meanings of her music. Being a queer woman, she also comments on the issues of gender and sexuality. The work aims to study the relationship between music and text in HRISTINA's songs. Accompanying texts, comments on social media and an essay dedicated to one of the songs discussed are also part of the analysis. The analysis discovers the way the singer reflects the legacy of the early post-soviet period on behalf of her own experience of the queer. The period of the 90s is therefore taken into account as the time after the fall of the Soviet Union when an immense growth of queer aesthetics took place. The work also shows that both musicians and critics consider this...
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Stereotypes in Fashion Photography in Women's magazines
Zítková, Radka ; Lábová, Alena (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Stereotypes in Fashion Photography in Women's magazines deals with the question of using stereotypes in media. The theoretical part of the work is concentrated on the two main issues connected with thesis topic - on fashion photography and stereotype. Both issues are right in the beginning defined and the scientific literature, which has been published so far, is mentioned. The Analysis of stereotypes in fashion photography follows. The samples are Czech versions of world's leading magazines Elle and Harper's Bazaar. As women's magazines Bakalářská práce Stereotypy v módní fotografii v ženských časopisech focused mainly on the topics such as fashion, beauty and slender figure, they provide a sufficient amount of fashion photographs. The entire magazines are then analyzed one by one as they were published in the last ended year - year 2007. Visual analysis of each issue contains official information such as the amount of pages, photographs and fashion photographs. The next part of analysis is concentrated on the content of picture. I describe all the stereotypes I found in every single issue of magazine. As I close the concrete magazine I sum up the stereotypes in fashion photography, which were uncovered through its issues of the year 2007. In the end of the work I compare both...
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The Graphic Journalism - Joe Sacco's Comic reportages
Medková, Alžběta ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
Bachelor thesis The Graphic Journalism - Joe Sacco's Comic reportages deals with use of the comics in journalism, so with the relatively new phenomenon in the media scene. It focuses especially on the most famous author of graphic journalism Joe Sacco. This american comic draftsman and journalist became famous with his comic reportages Palestina and Safe Area Goražde, which were chosen for a study (for a qualitative analysis), as the typical works of this genre. The issue of contemporary visual culture and the interpretation of visual materials in general is set in the introduction, the phenomenon of comic art is presented, as well. These issues are followed by the short history of comics and the analysis of the mentioned books. This thesis finds parallels of Sacco's reportages (and the graphic journalism in general) in the new journalism and mentions also other authors, who deal with the contemporary graphic journalism. The possible development of comics (in relation with journalism) is presented in the conclusion.
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