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Comics of the Czech magazine Ohníček in the period of 1968-71: semiotic analysis
Řezníková, Ivana ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Klabíková Rábová, Tereza (referee)
The topic of the thesis is the genre of comics in the Czech magazine Ohníček during the early period of normalization: the text is based on a detailed analysis of eleven comics that were published in the magazine between years 1968-71 (season 19-21). As far as the genre criteria are concerned, the analysed comics came closer to adventurous stories that were very popular in the 60/70s. At the same time, the original visual expression changed so that it was more suitable to child readers. Three of the analysed comics are comic series where the particular episodes are connected to each other by an adventurous narrative storyline. The eight others are comic strips with the narrative type of gag or fable. When examining the particular comics, the focus was on several aspects: the use of language, visual expression, story articulation and specific distinctive aspects. Differences in those aspects made the comics mutually different and deviating from the classics of genre. Both the graphic form and the story line of the analysed comics were determined by the fact that they were published in a children magazine. As results of the analysis, hero types and the resemblance of the fiction world according to the narrative type are descript and a comparison with European and American comics tradition is given.
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Communist Propaganda in the Children Magazine Ohníček
Rýcová, Kristína ; Cebe, Jan (advisor) ; Knapík, Jiří (referee)
The bachelor thesis The Communist propaganda in the children's magazine Ohníček focuses on finding propagandistic themes in Ohníček from 1950 to 1953. In the work, articles and pictures with propagandistic subtext are explored with the help of qualitative content analysis and they are included in the thematic categories. In addition to a qualitative content analysis, the work also contains a frequency analysis that represents the most frequently used topics. In the theoretical part, thanks to contemporary literature dealing with this period, the historical context and the most important events of these years are presented. Here are also presented the most important personalities of both Czechoslovak and Soviet politics. In a separate chapter there is a brief history of the magazine Ohníček. The next chapter of this thesis explains the concept of propaganda and its tools and describes the largest propagandistic campaigns taking place in the Czechoslovakia. The conclusion of the thesis is an evaluation of the found propaganda themes. The main objective is to point out how the Communist regime manipulated children's readers and how the information printed in the Ohníček magazine differs with contemporary historical literature.
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And they lived happily ever after. The fairy tales in Czech children magazines of 1948-1989.
Smějsíková, Marie ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Králíková, Andrea (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the genre of fairy tale in Czech children's magazines (namely Mateřídouška, Ohníček and Sluníčko) in the years between 1948 and 1989. The primary focus is on original Czech fairy tales in prose, while translated fairy tales, those written by the readers, excerpts from book publications, illustrated and rhymed fairy tales, and lastly, written fairy tales with enclosed puppets for children to craft are marginally commented on at the end of the paper. In the genre analysis, the thesis touches upon the types of narrator and upon the reader as created by the story itself or as addressed by the narrator, it also lists different types of reception, and comments on a potential categorization of characters. Afterwards, the thesis pays attention to a number of features taken over from traditional fairy tales. At the end, the focus is on how the opportunities provided by the medium of magazine are used, that is, serialized fairy tales, different stories about specific characters recurring in several issues in a row, and also the incorporation and influence of some features of then contemporary context.
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Comics of the Czech magazine Ohníček in the period of 1968-71: semiotic analysis
Řezníková, Ivana ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Klabíková Rábová, Tereza (referee)
The topic of the thesis is the genre of comics in the Czech magazine Ohníček during the early period of normalization: the text is based on a detailed analysis of eleven comics that were published in the magazine between years 1968-71 (season 19-21). As far as the genre criteria are concerned, the analysed comics came closer to adventurous stories that were very popular in the 60/70s. At the same time, the original visual expression changed so that it was more suitable to child readers. Three of the analysed comics are comic series where the particular episodes are connected to each other by an adventurous narrative storyline. The eight others are comic strips with the narrative type of gag or fable. When examining the particular comics, the focus was on several aspects: the use of language, visual expression, story articulation and specific distinctive aspects. Differences in those aspects made the comics mutually different and deviating from the classics of genre. Both the graphic form and the story line of the analysed comics were determined by the fact that they were published in a children magazine. As results of the analysis, hero types and the resemblance of the fiction world according to the narrative type are descript and a comparison with European and American comics tradition is given.
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