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Melodramatic Imagination and the Theatre of Cruelty: In a Year with Thirteen Moons
 Anger, Jiří ; Hanáková, Petra (advisor) ; Christov, Petr (referee)
This bachelor's thesis explores the relationship between melodrama and Antonin Artaud's "theatre of cruelty". It is based primarily on the conception of "melodramatic imagination", invented by a renowned literary theorist Peter Brooks: according to his theory, melodrama is neither a lowbrow genre nor only a pop culture phenomenon, but a coherent aesthetic system with a wide-ranging repertoire of expressive features and also a certain mode of thinking and imagining. I aim to prove that the melodramatic imagination as defined by Brooks can be linked with Artaud's vision of theatre whose crucial aesthetic and ideological signs are similar to those of melodrama: I even conclude that the theatre of cruelty is a radical expression of the melodramatic imagination and that it fully realizes its potential. As I try to show, the kinship between those two systems can also be applied to cinema, that is why I analyse Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film In a Year with 13 Moons in which this unique affinity takes shape. My thesis is structured into three parts: the first one provides a theoretical framework for the examination of melodrama that is mainly based on two key works from the area, Brooks's book The Melodramatic Imagination and an essay by like-minded film theorist Thomas Elsaesser called Tales of Sound and...
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The Cruel Sounds
 Csákayová, Nina ; Fišerová, Michaela (advisor) ; Marcelli, Miroslav (referee)
The presented diploma work brings the theory of noise music with the main reason to clarify the pragmatics of its forming and effects. The base of the theory in construct ob the ideas of Antonin Artaud, their reflections and externalizations in the post-structuralist philosophical discourse and intermedial fine arts. Because of the topic, work also observes trends in artictic comunication trough the noise. The aim of work is to formulates the own theory of noise music trough the postulation of cruelty in the artistic speech with emphasis on the explanation of transgresive experience during the noise music performance. The results of the work contributes to the theory of appropriation trough the description of specific medium transmission in the immanent space.
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