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The Reflection of Changing Social Values in the Egyptian TV Series
Černá, Barbora ; Ondráš, František (advisor) ; Oliverius, Jaroslav (referee)
The TV series represent a specific phenomenon in Egypt and other Arab countries. Albeit generally regarded as an uninteresting part of popular culture rather than a sort of art, the TV dramas should be seriously taken into consideration by all of social, history, and art scientists. Firstly, because of the extreme popularity among the large majority of the Egyptians, the series are often used by authorities for spreading certain ideological and political messages. The questions of national unity and the rise of militant Islam were chosen as examples to prove this in the thesis. Secondly, the Egyptian TV series reflect the social changes in Egyptian society and promote modernisation. This is shown in the thesis on the cases of marriage and the woman status. The production of TV series in Egypt is enormous and watching them is very widespread. Therefore, the TV dramas represent a powerful means to influence Egyptian society. Keywords: TV series, television, Egypt, popular culture, film, television drama, Egyptian society, social changes, satellite broadcasting, media.
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The Reflection of Changing Social Values in the Egyptian TV Series
Černá, Barbora ; Oliverius, Jaroslav (advisor)
The TV series represent a specific phenomenon in Egypt and other Arab countries. Albeit generally regarded as an uninteresting part of popular culture rather than a sort of art, the TV dramas should be seriously taken into consideration by all of social, history, and art scientists. Firstly, because of the extreme popularity among the large majority of the Egyptians, the series are often used by authorities for spreading certain ideological and political messages. The questions of national unity and the rise of militant Islam were chosen as examples to prove this in the thesis. Secondly, the Egyptian TV series reflect the social changes in Egyptian society and promote modernisation. This is shown in the thesis on the cases of marriage and the woman status. The production of TV series in Egypt is enormous and watching them is very widespread. Therefore, the TV dramas represent a powerful means to influence Egyptian society. Keywords: TV series, television, Egypt, popular culture, film, television drama, Egyptian society, social changes, satellite broadcasting, media.
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Martin Šárovec's Private Metamorphosis
Patlejchová, Petra ; Pech, Milan (advisor) ; Vaňous, Petr (referee)
The thesis focus on the Czech contemporary painter Martin Šárovec (*1977). His art expression oscillates between expressionism and realism. He is interested in painting the human face, which under an influence of postmodern media culture mutates into different and sometimes scary portraits of today's society. He paints grotesque, psychedelic and labile snapshots with emptied icons of contemporary pop-culture. The thesis tries to find out the artist's life and art sources that reflects in his paintings. It also puts his work into the context of the Czech contemporary art.
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Prague Illustrated Courier: The Prague Penny-press as a Window into the World of Commeon Men.
Machek, Jakub ; Štaif, Jiří (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee) ; Holubec, Stanislav (referee)
- Jakub Machek Prague Illustrated Courier. The Prague Penny-press as a Window into the World of Common Men. This work is dedicated to early sensational pictorial press (Pražský Illustrovaný Kurýr and its less successful predecessors) and its urban readers, as an example of the rising Fin de siècle popular culture in the Czech lands and its significance for revealing fundamental social and political changes that took place at the turn of the 20th century. During this era, even the members of lower social classes broadened their economical and cultural potency and thus capacity to absorb the development of new common culture generated by the rapid industrialization and urbanization. Production and reception of emerging popular press is analysed as a marker of the new modern urban experience and its social influences. Global pattern of successful mass daily press was, however, modified for Prague audience, its specific local beliefs, values and desires, distinctively different from those of western urban centre dwellers.
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Role of popular culture in British and Czechoslovak art in 1950s and 1960s. Collage in the work of Eduard Paolozzi and Jiří Kolář 1948-1963
Ševčíková, Barbora ; Pech, Milan (advisor) ; Hanáčková, Marcela (referee)
The role of popular culture in British and Czechoslovak art in the 50's and 60's of the 20th century Bachelor thesis approaches the early work of Eduardo Paolozziho and Jiří Kolář, especially their collages created in the 50's of the 20th century. Attention is focused on the relationship between art of the Eastern and the Western block and its social and political context. It represents the situation of the British and Czechoslovak art that influenced both of the creators. Detail is given to collage technique, its history and the way both creators used it and what results independently arrived. The conclusion deals with the issue of the journal and collages which signified pop art approaches. Attention is focused on possible deeper understanding of both collage artists based on tetrade questions by Marshall McLuhan. Keywords Eduardo Paolozzi, Jiří Kolář, collage, popular culture, scrapbooks
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Changes in understanding of conception !popular culture" by the users (example of women's audience watching TV series "for the whole family" x
Fišerová, Marie ; Dominik, Šimon (advisor) ; Reifová, Irena (referee)
This thesis deals with the study of popular culture for example, television series like a typical product of this culture and of research of their consumers. It deals with the shift in the understanding of the importance of the concept of popular culture for example, female audience pursuing series called series "for the whole family. With this selected audience watching the series at the time of normalization, and at the same time pursuing current series I am trying to trace the development, as well as the changes in understanding of pop culture. The aim of this thesis is to determine the movement, changes in the understanding of the concept / importance of popular culture occurred during the period of normalization to the present days. At work I deal with social and political context, defining of popular culture, everydayness and watching TV serials. This is a qualitative research on female audience through in-depth interviews.
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Atheism in America
Koranda, David ; Robbins, David Lee (advisor) ; Ulmanová, Hana (referee)
This diploma work analyzes the contemporary rise of the number of atheists in the United States of America, basing this presupposition on numerous nation-wide surveys, primarily conducted by Gallup Poll and Pew Research Center. It goes into depth on the definition of atheism and strictly delineates the meaning of this word and the use of its alternatives in the work. Given the fact that the thesis is written by a Czech author, it also provides necessary background covering the differences between Czech atheism and American atheism. Since the work is purposely not one of literary analysis but rather of socio-political and cultural nature, reasons for this decision are given in a separate subchapter analyzing Flannery O'Connor's novel Wise Blood. History of atheism in America is touched upon in the beginning of Chapter 3, but since the fundamental focus of this work is on the contemporary state of affairs, the roots of modern atheism in America are sought after mainly in the twentieth century. In particular, the greatest causes of the weakening of church's power and the rise of secularism (or atheism, for that matter) are given as following: Madalyn Murray O'Hair's fights against church's influence in public schools and against its public funding; the argument about the non-scientific nature of belief...
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Neo-Marxism and psychoanalysis as a source and inspiration of Frankfurt School
ŠACHLOVÁ, Tereza
In my thesis I will pursue the ideological foundations of the Frankfurt School, a significant social philosophical group of the 20th century. Marxist and psychoanalytic basis will be reflected in conjunction with a critical theory of society and a phenomenon of culture industry. The purpose of this work is to present influences which formed a theoretical work of the Frankfurt School, its research in a modern society and a contribution to the so-called commodification of culture and art related to the expansion of mass culture.
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The aesthetic decoration of sanitary facilities
MATOUŠEK, Pavel
Artefacts of mass culture infiltrate with a lot of diverse ways into our everyday life, where they have different social, symbolic or aesthetic functions. The target of the bachelor thesis is to map the aesthetic decoration of sanitary facilities and to answer following questions: In which ways infiltrates mass culture into these areas and how are commodities transformed to the artefacts of mass culture? How is the taste of users reflected in the decoration of a particular sanitary facilities and how are primarily dominant meanings reshaped with subversive semiotic power of social actors? Which relation have inhabitants of households to the popular culture? Methodology of the thesis is based on the small terrain research (observation, questionnaires, interviews with respondents, photodocumentation of the aesthetic decoration of sanitary facilities). The tesis is based on the theories and concepts of John Fiske, Umberto Eco and Pierre Bourdieu.
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Between Religion and Politics: Popular Culture of Early Modern Era
Nešpor, Zdeněk
The proceedings contains nine papers, that concern with the various issues of Czech and European popular culture of the early modern era. Papers by J. Horsky and D. Tinkova covers the issue theoreticaly, why those by Z. R. Nespor, I. Kusnirakova, H. Sobotkova, J. Wolf, I. Cermanova, J. Randak and E. Novotna are grounded in the empirical research.
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