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The interpretation of film narrative in the works of Alejandro González Iňárritu
Juřenová, Nikola ; Klabíková Rábová, Tereza (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
The presented master thesis explores the interpretation of film narrative in the works of the Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu. Through a narrative analysis of seven feature films, including Amores Perros, Babel, and Bardo - False Chronicle of Handful of Truths, I will explore the director's distinctive approach to the construction of film narrative. The analysis includes aspects of narrative logic and temporal manipulation to identify recurring patterns and narrative devices used in Iñárritu's works. The theoretical part briefly introduces the director and anchors his position in the context of modern Mexican cinema. The methodological part of the work is based on the film theories of David Bordwell and Seymour Chatman. These are later supplemented by the theories of Charles Ramírez Berg and other authors, focusing on complicated narratives. The analytical part of the thesis examines the use of narrative technique, thematic motives, and socio-political contexts present in his films. Since the non-linear form of the story is not the only specific element of his work, I will also focus on a chronological examination of his filmography and artistic development in the time period 1983-2023. The findings of this analysis contribute to a deeper understanding of Iñárritu's directorial...
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Escapes to Documentary - Escapes to Fiction. Film Directors-"Amphibians" and Questions of the Representation of Reality
FILIPOV, Jakub
The diploma thesis deals with the characterization of two basic film categories which collectively identify individual genres, fictional and non-fictional film. At the same time, it finds the arguments necessary for the theoretical anchoring of documentary film as a separate genre and comes up with its general definion. It also touches on issues of film style and, in part, issues related to the different types of reception of stylistic means attributed to specific modes of film depiction. The main aim of this work is to process the question of representation of reality and approach the way the directors of the so-called "amphibians" - Agn?s Varda and Werner Herzog - moving in the field of documentary and fiction, work with depiction of the actual world and how does it project itself into the fictional world. The interpretation of selected film works makes it possible to point out the specific role of authorship and thus thematize the atypical approach in which both directors are working with the film medium. Based on the interpreted films by director Agn?s Varda and director Werner Herzog, the work analyze the thematic similarities and stylistic elements characteristic of fiction and documentary works and their different uses across film genres. At the same time, the way in which the traditional boundary dividing films into fictional and non-fictional ones is systematically demolished, the fixed boundary which is almost impossible to define in practice, is like the film style that cannot be strictly divided into fictional and documentary because it is part of one cinematographic-historical unity.
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