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Influence of Stephen King's ‚It' on literature and popular culture
Gajdošová, Veronika ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Bojarová, Marie (referee)
This bachelor's thesis intends to search for the extend of influence of Stephen King's work It on current popular culture (which includes film industry, music industry, Halloween costumes and other) and literature (demonstrated on topical examples). The theoretical part focuses on the life and work of the author and briefly goes over the synopsis of the novel It. The practical part deals with examples of influence of the book on mentioned aspects of culture (literature and popular culture). During my research I used several sources, first of all literary works, then internet articles and online videos.
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Contemporary Fandom Subculture - Active Culture Consumption
VANÍČKOVÁ, Simona
This bachelor thesis focuses on the topic of fans, specifically fan communities surrounding cultural works of fiction. In the first part it maps out the progress of media studies in the 20th century and the research of audiences and their consumption of media messages. It summarizes that the question of media message reception had previously been viewed as a question of a uniform mass of people under the total control of the media industry; afterwards research proved diversity in the audience that resulted in a variety of media message perceptions. From this general approach it moves in the second part to examine a specific group within an audience, the fans. It outlines the gradual shifts in the way the academic world has viewed the fan world through the comparison of various works on this topic and it informs about the general characteristics of fan communities at various points in time. It concludes that while working with the subject of fan communities it is relevant to incorporate topics such as resistance against the cultural industry, the community aspect of being a fan, the activity and passivity of being a fan, and their representation in academia and in media messages themselves.
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Podivný pán z Providence aneb Literární horor v pojetí Howarda Phillipse Lovecrafta a jeho odkaz v pop-kulturním prostoru
PODLAHA, Roman
The Bachelor thesis is mainly focused on horror literature written by American renowned author Howard Phillips Lovecraft. In the first part, the genre of horror as such and its history from the early beginnings is described. Thanks to this introduction, the reader can easily put Lovecraft's work into a broad context of the pop-culture field. The next part of the work is primarily concerned with basic themes and motives which efficiently define the form of Lovecraft's horror stories. To conclude with, the thesis presents several examples of author's reflection in the contemporary works of art.
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Westernization of Pop Culture in China - "China's Got Talent"
Hädler, Victoria ; Reifová, Irena (advisor) ; Lütke Notarp, Ulrike (referee)
This master thesis deals with the phenomenon of Westernization of pop culture in mainland China on the example of the Chinese adapted version of the Talent Show China's Got Talent. (CHGT) In its theoretical part it outlines the overall globalizing and Westernizing tendencies and sets a theoretical framework of the main terminology of media studies. The research goal of the thesis was to analyze the audience reception of CHGT in China and their ideas and views on pop culture The research goal is included in the broader context of cultural imperialism theories and the specifics of talent and reality shows are elaborated. Furthermore a historical overview of the evolution of pop culture in mainland China is provided. In the practical part, the applied methodological approaches and their potential strengths and weaknesses are described. A basic thematic analysis of certain selected social media like Weibo, QQ and Baidu was conducted. The two versions of the adapted Got Talent format were compared as far as the formal features are concerned, the British version of Britain's Got Talent and the Chinese adaptation China's Got Talent. Moreover qualitative in-depth interviews with Chinese respondents in the PRC and the UK were performed. The group in the UK served as a control group for comparison and the...
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