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The Reaction to Soviet Occupation of Czechoslovakia in French Press
Frejtichová, Dominika ; Nejedlý, Martin (advisor) ; Pullmann, Michal (referee)
The subject of this bachelor thesis is the reaction to the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 in the French press. It describes what the analyzed periodicals focused on the most and how the event was perceived. It also describes how the political and social situation in France, especially the May 1968 protests, shaped the way the press percieved the occupation. The source material consists of three nationwide newspapers that cover a wide range of political opinion: Le Figaro, Le Monde and L'Humanité from July to August 1968. One conclusion is that all three periodicals were unanimous in rejecting the Soviet intervention, however, their opinions varied partially due to their different political orientation. The press was identified with the Czech people and the reform process of the Prague Spring. However, the similarities and comparison between the situation in France in 1968 and the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia were not explicitly reflected upon by the journalists. Still, the inner political status of France implicitly played a role in the way the events were interpreted and how much attention it was given. The press has heavily covered not only the intervention itself and the situation in Czechoslovakia, but also foreign reactions to it, because the intervention of the Warsaw...
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Censorship as a political instrument for defending the republic
Hubená, Ester ; Doubek, Vratislav (advisor) ; Konrád, Ota (referee)
Bachelor thesis concerns the censorship of the press in czech language in first Czechoslovak republic. It focuses on the period in the beginning of 1930s, when the censorship grows in intensity against the press of anti-system parties - fascist and communist sheets. Thesis follows the development of press law to 1933, when efforts of economic and political stability culminated. And also because of the so-called small press law, which was adopted by government in July 1933, the censorship was stricter and many periodicals was stopped. Censorship measures was in conflict with the democratic idea of the state, but limites of its using and the times of anti-democratic dangers became its defense and the crisis lead to the rise of the "militant democracy".
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Media in Czech Fine Arts
Ježková, Tereza ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Sládková, Hana (referee)
The thesis Media in Czech Fine Arts deals with the relationship between media and fine arts. The thesis aims to find, among other things, whether media can be considered a distinct theme in arts. The objective, methodology, and resources utilized are all addressed in the first chapters. A brief overview of how the topic was addressed in foreign fine arts follows; this was the main inspiration for the pursuit of this work. The main part consists of a selection of works of art where the topic of media appears and where the author of the work was a Czech fine artist. The thesis focuses mainly on painting, drawings, graphic arts and sculpture. The artworks are sorted into several subheads, primarily by the topic they portray, then chronologically. Each thematic unit makes a connection between history and theory of media, and the history of art.
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Press and cultural politics in pardubice region in times of normalization
Trestrová, Veronika ; Končelík, Jakub (advisor) ; Sekera, Martin (referee)
This dissertation gives a comprehensive picture of the press organs of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the district of Pardubice during the so-called normalization. The first chapter describes the historical contexts of this era, particularly changes in policy after the onset of Gustáv Husák at the head of the Communist Party in April 1969. With this change is related to another topic: extensive purges in the Communist Party, which took place in 1970. The second chapter focuses on changes in the media at the beginning of normalization, in particular the abolition of some periodicals and restoring censorship, and changes in the cultural field, especially strengthening the focus on the Soviet Union, the emergence of new artists' unions and various legal regulation in order to strengthen ideological supervision of the this sphere . The third and fourth sections are devoted East Bohemian press: daily newspaper Pochodeň, published in Hradec Králové, and Pardubice district newspaper Zář. It briefly describes the history of these newspapers and their effect during the Prague Spring and subsequent developments in normalization. Attention is then focussed mainly on their cultural sections and their scope, content and authors of articles. Analysis of the articles from the cultural sections provides...
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Two 1939 Soviet - German Pacts and Their Reflection in the Press of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
Nevrkla, Lukáš ; Václavů, Lubor (advisor) ; Míšková, Alena (referee)
Two 1939 Soviet-German Pacts and Their Reflection in the Press of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia Abstract The main aim of the thesis is to analyze the reflection of the Soviet-German relations in the Czech legal press of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia at the time of the outbreak of the Second World War when the Ribbentrop-Molotov non-aggression pact (23 August 1939) and of the treaty of borders and friendship (27 September 1939) transformed the character of the international relations in the Central and Eastern Europe. At first, the text concentrates on analysis of the contemporaneous circumstances both in terms of international relations in Europe and in terms of internal domestic policies in the protectorate. In the following part, the author discusses the protectorate press response to the two German-Soviet treaties as well as the press attitudes to a number of other related issues such as the Soviet-Japanese conflict in Mongolia. The thesis is based on research of a series of Czech protectorate dailies, namely A- Zet, České slovo, Národní práce, Venkov a Vlajka. However, it also takes into account two illegal Czech periodicals, the magazine V boj and the Communist illegal newspaper Rudé právo.
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The evolutionof the picture of interpreter in selected international and Czech medias
Salajková, Linda ; Čeňková, Ivana (advisor) ; Sládková, Miroslava (referee)
The thesis focuses on the image of interpreter and interpretation in Czech printed media from 1990 to 2012. It aims to explore how interpreters present themselves in media, how journalists present interpreters and whether that image is accepted or not by the public. The thesis consists of two parts. The theoretical part focuses on methods of media and discourse analysis, definition of interpretation, formation of interpreters and professional associations in the Czech Republic. Empirical part analyses more than 800 articles about interpretation and analyses the discourse of Czech media during the period of twenty years. Analysis showed that the discourse changes constantly and the point of view of interpreters on their profession is different from the discourse created by journalists. Empirical part contains a survey which showed, that public opinion on interpreters is different from observed discourse of the media.
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Shift of Czech News Service Genre Composition in Years 1989-1995 and Formation of New Journalist Standards in Press due to the New Technologies in Mladá fronta Dnes.
Svobodová, Tereza ; Osvaldová, Barbora (advisor) ; Trunečková, Ludmila (referee)
Technologies together with so-called new media are one of the most important matters of contemporary media studies and mass communication theory. Many experts focus on their impact and try to find out and describe their effects on audience, media content, work of journalists or professional methods etc. Considering new technologies and regarding formation of absolutely new on-line medium we can ask how journalistic genres cope with fast evolution in the field of media. As the time goes, genres can change, which may be caused by many factors. New technologies, innovations and especially new medium can take part in such process. This thesis focuses on shift of Czech news service genre composition and formation of new journalist standards in press due to the new technologies introduced into media production in years 1989-1995. It also concerns with historical context and social changes after 1989. After all, these changes together with media transformation into liberal democratic model had an essential impact on news making as well as innovations and modernization of newsrooms. Genre metamorphosis is shown on the example of Mladá fronta Dnes.
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Struggle between Slovak Democratic Party and Communist Party of Slovakia after the 1946 elections and its image in contemporary media
Macík, Jan ; Cebe, Jan (advisor) ; Aplt, Daniel (referee)
The bachelor thesis Struggle between Slovak Democratic Party and Communist Party of Slovakia after the 1946 elections and its image in contemporary media deals with the situation both on political and medial scene of Czechoslovakia during the period of two post-war years. It follows up characteristics of the changes in the political structure of Czechoslovakia, which were the result of the recently concluded World War II. Together with changes in the political scene also describes changes that took place in the area of the media industry. As a demonstration of this fact it shows the mode of covering of particular periodicals of both sides of the conflict. It's trying to explain how were the actual political events presented by periodicals and what was the method of assaulting on political competitors. The crucial part of this work deals with the content analysis of periodicals of both sides of the conflict and it concerns its results. It uses comparative analysis of two dailies and two weeklies and shows the ways of reporting on actual political events and the differences between Communist (daily Rudé právo, weekly Tvorba) and Democratic (daily Čas, weekly Demokratický týždenník) medias. The conclusion of this work contains the summary of analysis results, its interpretation and setting it in the...
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