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Internet transformation of czech film critic for example, a film publicist František Fuka
Řápek, Jan ; Šobr, Michal (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
This bachelor's thesis is devoted to the important trend of transformation of film media from print titles into new media with internet as the main example. Thesis aims to map out the form, function and changes of the current internet film journalism. This is the current trend, in which the current film criticism is significantly influenced by the internet, what brings new habits and practices into it. The first part will be devoted to the contemporary scene of film criticism and reviews. In the second part, trends will be reflected in the case study focused on the person od František Fuka. He is one of the leading Czech film critics, who long worked in traditional printed media and is also among the pioneers of film journalism on Czech internet. In his person we can find all of the features of internet journalists. Fuka is a typical example of a modern film critic who uses all possible platforms and develops all the possibilities of the internet to present their work and communicate with readers. The aim is to highlight the example of the current trends of film criticism and prove the convergence of film critics and readers, which is a result of the advent of new media. All of that leads to the fact that the boundaries of the relationship between author and reader are getting thinner.
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Critical response to Ladislav Grosman's The Shop on Main Street and its film adaptation
Dobiašovský, Záviš ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Malý, Radek (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the Ladislav Grosman's novel Obchod na korze (The Shop on Main Street) and its film adaptation by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos. Given the topic, the theoretical part focuses on the historical events of the establishment of the Slovak state and the repression of the Jewish population. The thesis then interferes with the context of Czechoslovakian war literature and cinematography in the 1960s and introduces the author of the novel Ladislav Grossman and a creative couple of directors Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos. The empirical part of the thesis analyzes the critical response to the novel and the film adaptation in the periodical press in the context of Czechoslovakian culture. The empirical part also includes selected critical reactions in the period after the Velvet revolution in 1989. The critical texts and reviews were chosen from the printed culturally oriented periodicals and attachments of the daily press between 1965-1970 and subsequently after 1989.
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Comparison of users'comments on ČSFD and reviews of film critics on the films The Shape of Water and Thor: Ragnarok
Mrzílková, Adéla ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Doležal, Aleš (referee)
The bachelor thesis Comparison of users' comments on ČSFD and reviews of film critics on the films The Shape of Water and Thor: Ragnarok focuses on analysis and comparison of selected film critics' reviews and users' comments on Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. The theoretical part is focused on defining the terms review, critic, and comment. Big part of the thesis is devoted to mapping the history of film criticism and its evolution in recent history, meant since year 1989. Based on the information obtained and with help of professional texts the thesis sets few rules for writing a film review. In the practical part the thesis is dedicated to Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze and it marginally mentions web portals iDNES.cz and The Guardian. Briefly introduces films Thor: Ragnarok and The Shape of Water, which reviews, and comments are the main subject of study of this bachelor thesis. Film reviews and users' comments are firstly evaluated separately with the help of stated rules for writing a film review. Then they are compared with each other based on the content. The aim of this thesis is to analysis how do film critics see each of the film and how do users on Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze see each of the film.
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Stars, points, percentage: the influence of critics reviews on the Czech cinema attendance
Karlíčková, Iva ; Křeček, Jan (advisor) ; Kruml, Milan (referee)
Diploma thesis Stars, points, percentage: the influence of critics reviews on the Czech cinema attendance aims to verify whether reviews and critics in printed and electronic media affect how many viewers see the movie in the cinema. Besides this main question, this study is also focused on other hypotheses associated with the general notion that a professional film critic, as an expert, has higher demands on audiovisual works, and therefore films rated in professional journals have a lower rating than when they are evaluated in the media intended for the general public. The theoretical framework of the thesis briefly deals with the definition and historical development of criticism at first in general and then with the critics and reviews of film. It also outlines the evolution of cinematography and film as media and art. In addition, some other factors that may affect cinema attendance are mentioned. The last passage summarizes the current foreign and domestic studies and works dealing with similar topics. In the research part, all the films that premiered in our country from 2006 to 2015 were analyzed by the quantitative method. There were almost 2,300 films, which were reviewed in Cinepur and Cinema magazines, on iDNES.cz and aktualne.cz news servers and Moviezone.cz, Kinobox.cz and ČSFD web portals....
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Film Video Review as a Format of Online Journalism
Roháčková, Kristina ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Lokšík, Martin (referee)
The emergence of the Internet and digital media has irreversibly erased the differences between media producers and their consumers. Nowhere it is more palpable than on the YouTube video service, which has since 2005 relied on contributions from both professional media organisations and amateur creators alike. Master's thesis titled Film Video Review as a Format of Online Journalism deals with the phenomenon of video reviews - i.e. videos in which one or more film critics introduce and review a film that is currently premiering in the cinemas - whose popularity is directly related to the worldwide reach and communal function of said social media. The aim of this thesis is to define the film video review as a separate format of online journalism based on the comparison of selected video reviewers that represent both Czech and foreign media, as well as platforms of participative journalism. The first chapter provides a general overview of what requirements film reviews and film criticism should meet, the second then summarises expert views on the crisis of film criticism and the alleged death of the film critic. The last chapter of the theoretical part then presents basic findings on video reviews and the related format of video essay. Subsequently, the fourth chapter introduces the reader to a...
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Czech feature films through essayistic criticism
Zelenka, Kryštof ; BENDOVÁ, Helena (advisor) ; Havas, David (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the research of essayistic criticism that focuses on Czech feature films released from July 2015 to August 2016. The thesis searches for the type of criticism according to the system of David Bordwell. It deals with all texts published in seven chosen media about all the released movies that fulfilled the research criteria. Those texts have been analyzed both according to quantitative and qualitative analysis. The bachelor has then tried to find out how the Czech criticism informs about the films, which parts it focuses on and how often Czech films have its attention in general. For clarity, the films are divided into four categories according to their art / commercial ambitions and mainstream / marginal focus.
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Pornography in french art cinema
Hrnčířová, Agáta ; BENDOVÁ, Helena (advisor) ; VLACH, Jiří (referee)
This paper discusses pornography in French artistic cinema. It firstly defines the term pornography and presents how it is perceived in this work. Furthermore, this work describes the history of pornographic films and contemporary film genres in France. The objective is the creation of a case study of three contemporary French films which have pornographic aspects. The accent is placed on the analysis of sexual scenes. The last part of this work reflects the influence of sexual explicitness on the reception of the films by critics and on the work of the producers and distributors.
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Internet transformation of czech film critic for example, a film publicist František Fuka
Řápek, Jan ; Šobr, Michal (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
This bachelor's thesis is devoted to the important trend of transformation of film media from print titles into new media with internet as the main example. Thesis aims to map out the form, function and changes of the current internet film journalism. This is the current trend, in which the current film criticism is significantly influenced by the internet, what brings new habits and practices into it. The first part will be devoted to the contemporary scene of film criticism and reviews. In the second part, trends will be reflected in the case study focused on the person od František Fuka. He is one of the leading Czech film critics, who long worked in traditional printed media and is also among the pioneers of film journalism on Czech internet. In his person we can find all of the features of internet journalists. Fuka is a typical example of a modern film critic who uses all possible platforms and develops all the possibilities of the internet to present their work and communicate with readers. The aim is to highlight the example of the current trends of film criticism and prove the convergence of film critics and readers, which is a result of the advent of new media. All of that leads to the fact that the boundaries of the relationship between author and reader are getting thinner.
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The coming of sound film and the media image of it in contemporary czechoslovak press
Král, Tadeáš ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Batistová, Anna (referee)
The author deals with the coming of a sound film and its reviews in the contemporary Czech art and film magazines. The first part describes development of film and film art from its beginnings in the late 19th century to the time just before the coming of a sound film at the turn of the twenties and thirties of the 20th century. The author also describes the evolution of the sound technology in the film and the coming of the first sound films including problems which this change has brought. In the practical part the author examines articles about this topic in the Czechoslovak art magazines using the qualitative analysis and describes the media image of the sound film at the time of its boom. The thesis describes main themes in those articles - the artistic quality of sound films, the future of the sound film, the sound film and the theater and international character of the film - and several related subtopics and ideological streams. He also finds out that the criticism of the sound film at those times is mostly negative, but despite that, its future development and existence had been expected. At last the author finds an improvement in an evaluation of aesthetic qualites of sound films.
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