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The Methods of Imagination in Egyptian Cinema
Buchlová, Martina ; Ondráš, František (advisor) ; Oliverius, Jaroslav (referee)
Martina Buchlová Summary This thesis looks into the methods of imagination in Egyptian cinema through in-depth analysis of the film adaptation of the Nobel Prize Winner Nagīb Maḥfūẓ's novel Bajna 'l-Qaṣrajn. For the analysis, combined approaches of narratology, film theory and neo- formalism have been used. All the observations and conclusions are supported by evidence in form of extracts from the novel and/or stills from the film. The initial chapter gives a brief account of the history and tendencies of Egyptian cinema from its beginnings to the 1960's, when the analysed film was shot. It also summs up the carrier of the film's director, Ḥasan al-Imām, and puts the film into the appropriate context. Furthermore, this chapter lists the storyline of the novel and mentions a few basic facts about its inception. In the next chapter, the transfer of narrative features of the text into film is being discussed, using the model of cardinal functions by Roland Barthes. A table gives precise account of the narrative elements which were transfered to the film and those which were not or were subject to considerable changes. The following chapter deals with the transfer of the novel's non-narrative elements (whose adaptation to the new medium requires a more inventional approach), such as description of the time and...
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Three Versions of Solaris
Grajciar, Marek ; MRAVCOVÁ, Marie (advisor) ; VAJCHR, Marek (referee)
Diploma thesis deals with three forms of Solaris. Specifically with novel by Stanislaw Lem, a film adaptation of Andrei Tarkovsky and the second film adaptation of Steven Soderbergh. The aim of this work is comparison of individual authors practices that led to different semantic tone. Thesis analyzes six basic aspects of individual works: basis, genre, semantic structure, syntactic structure - a dramatic structure, characters and space-time.
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