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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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Camel through the eye of a needle 1926 and 1936 (film adaptations of the play by František Langer)
Čížkovská, Jana ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Přádná, Stanislava (referee)
This Bachelor thesis focuses on two film adaptations of the play Camel through the eye of a needle by František Langer in Czech cinematography until 1936. These namely are the silent version directed by Karel Lamač, produced in 1926, and the sound version directed by Hugo Haas and Otakar Vávra in 1936. The first part of this work generally describes the original theatre play, its history, structure and developement of the main text. It shows, how successful this play was on Czech, European and American stages and how this treatrical success influenced distributional possibilities of the film adaptations in the following years. The second part then compares two film adpatations, describes their production background, cast, public and media reception.
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Multilingualism in sound film
Hamerlová, Dana ; Mareš, Petr (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis deals with issues of multilingualism, i. e. appearance of two or more different languages, in a film. The first part of the thesis provides an introduction to the theory of communication, then follows a brief look at the character of film communication, i. e. its primary and secondary stucture. The second part concerns with multilingualism on both levels of communication in film discourse. The author discusses filmmaker's intentions related to comprehension or incomprehension of a foreign-language text and establishes the functions of multilingualism. The following parts research three separate film categories whose classification is based on types of languages that appear in film. The first category embraces films in that several different real spoken languages figure, the second one includes films where real spoken language and fictional language appear, films of the third category present spoken language and means of communication used by deaf people. Keywords sound film, communication, multilingualism, natural language, sign language, fictional language
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