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Reflection of historical facts in a fantastic example of the Star Wars saga
Hadrabová Rauschgoldová, Scarlett ; Beneš, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Kudlová, Klára (referee)
The thesis deals with the issue of depicting long-past and entirely topical historical events in the Star Wars film saga. Given the current size of the Star Wars universe, this work must be limited to films known as "Episodes" (numbered I through IX) and two relatively new feature spin-offs, while everything else will be mentioned only marginally. This work maps in detail how each of the three trilogies of this saga, as well as both spin-offs, show the main problems of the time in which they arose and to which other historical facts they want or can refer. The aim of the work is thus to show that the genre widely regarded as "escape" and "completely detached from reality" reflects historical reality very strongly by its specific artistic means. Keywords Star Wars, historical reality, science fiction, speculative fiction, space opera, SF movie, story, neomyth, George Lucas, Cold War, politics
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Star Wars: A Franchise Story
VANÍČKOVÁ, Simona
This master's thesis focuses on the phenomenon of Star Wars and analyses what makes it such a popular and long-standing popcultural hegemon. The thesis explores the inception of the franchise's first film in detail; it describes the state of the Hollywood film industry in that era and how the film was introduced and sold to the public; the technical innovations of the films' creative teams are brought under spotlight. The films are here understood as pioneers of the blockbuster, a specific kind of box office hit whose key features are its entertainment value, its spectacular sensory nature and close cooperation with businesses that are given licenses to manufacture merchandise, which not only helps market the film, but garners financial gain as well. The paratexts that come into existence this way are also viewed as meaningful objects for their consumers; together with the new VCR and DVD technology, the paratexts help not only to keep the franchise alive in the minds of older fans, but also to create new fans during the long interims between the separate film trilogies. The franchise's transition into a Disney asset is analysed next, including the new films produced under its supervision, as well as the franchise's shift into the new world of streamed content.
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Do women need to be rescued - the journey towards female heroes
Krulichová, Jana ; Soukup, Martin (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
This thesis aims to answer how the public perceives and interprets the male gaze theory in the popular culture. Referring to Star Wars, it analyses whether and how the audience perceives the dominant male optic and how it affects an interpretation of the movies. From the theoretical concepts, feminism is mentioned in detail - specifically its second wave, including gender studies that brought attention to culture construction of femininity and masculinity, which helps to understand sexism. A crucial foundation for the thesis proceeds from feminism - a feminist film critique, namely the male gaze theory that was introduced by Laura Mulvey in 1974. This thesis introduces not only this theory, but also its critics and opposing theories that all together contributed to the transformation of the film industry. Subsequently, the developments in American society in the second half of the 20th century that have influenced the changes in pop culture is briefly discussed. Lastly, the science fiction genre and the Star Wars story and its universe are summarized. The qualitative research focuses on the audience of the Star Wars saga born in the 1990s. By analysing semi-structured interviews, the research questions are answered and confronted with findings from the semiotic analysis. The main finding of the...
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Transmedial storytelling of the Star Wars fictional world
Vitoušová, Valérie ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
In my thesis I focus on the problematics of the transmedia storytelling which can influence the original story, even if its main aim is to elaborate that story. Innterferencies can be done on the level of the very story or on the level of the theories,, which can be applicable on it. I'm using the example of Star Wars fictional world, to which theories of Vladimir Propp, Joseph Campbell, J.R.R. Tolkien can be applied, just as the concept of mythology created by Roland Barthes. I'm going to present how transmedia storytelling influences the original story, presented mainly by the film episodes and "G-canon", on the chosen examples of Star Wars transmedia. At the same time transmedia storytelling changes the meaning of the theoretical frames named above, which can be applied to the original story. My aim is to show that the impact of transmedia is much greater that it is usually presented.
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Theological anthropology in the worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and George Lucas
Michálek, Ondřej ; Outrata, Filip (advisor) ; Hošek, Pavel (referee)
In this work I explore the subject of theological motives in the worlds of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - Middle-earth, Clive Staples Lewis - Narnia and George Lucas - Star Wars. In the world of the Middle-earth, it will be the whole canon, which contains stories from the Middle- earth focusing on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. I will use all seven books from the world of Narnia. In George Lucas's world, I'm mainly using the so-called G-canon. If there's a topic that's not covered by this canon, I'll look into the so-called T-canon, or the C-canon. I will compare the different theological questions in the approaches of an author influenced by Anglicism, Catholicism and Methodism with Buddhism. The most important questions for me will be creation, sin, grace, hope, forgiveness and redemption. For each topic, I compare the approaches and compare them to the biblical narrative. The aim of the work is if and howt extent these stories reflect a biblical view of man and of history.
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William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope; translation and stylistic analysis of Ian Doescher's play
Kabešová, Karolína ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Chalupský, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis consists of three parts - the introduction, the translation of the first act of William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope and stylistic analysis of the translation. The first part focuses on the introduction of the three works related to the topic of this thesis - William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and Ian Doescher's book. The practical part consists of the original text and its back-to-back Czech translation. The third part is an analysis of the translation, namely those passages that are challenging in terms of linguistic finesse and idiosyncratic style.
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Narative struktur
Lišková, Tereza ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor) ; Švelch, Jaroslav (referee)
The topic of diploma thesis was to analyze the narrative structure and transmedia storytelling of Star Wars processed into a film by director George Lucas. The work is mainly focused on narrative analysis of both the original and more recent films and further analysis of transmedia narrative that makes Star Wars extend mainly into the field of literature and computer games. In addition to narrative analysis subject of the work was also the analysis of the fictional world where the story takes place. Another point of diploma thesis is to analyze transmedia narrative that makes the original Star Wars story transform into a books, computer games and more. The whole concept of Star Wars can be described as a modern narrative, moreover, whose stories are from the genre of science-fiction and take place in a completely fictional environment. During the analysis of narrative structures, author primarily used the classical theoretical literature about the narrative theory. For example the Morphology fairy tales from Vladimir J. Propp, according to which it is possible to extent the analyse of the original and other episodes of Star Wars. For analysis of transmedia storyteling was also used studies of Mary Laure Ryan, who discusses the possibility of altering the basic narrative in transmedia narrative. The aim of...
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Transmedial storytelling of the Star Wars fictional world
Vitoušová, Valérie ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
In my thesis I focus on the problematics of the transmedia storytelling which can influence the original story, even if its main aim is to elaborate that story. Innterferencies can be done on the level of the very story or on the level of the theories,, which can be applicable on it. I'm using the example of Star Wars fictional world, to which theories of Vladimir Propp, Joseph Campbell, J.R.R. Tolkien can be applied, just as the concept of mythology created by Roland Barthes. I'm going to present how transmedia storytelling influences the original story, presented mainly by the film episodes and "G-canon", on the chosen examples of Star Wars transmedia. At the same time transmedia storytelling changes the meaning of the theoretical frames named above, which can be applied to the original story. My aim is to show that the impact of transmedia is much greater that it is usually presented.
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Mythological and Mythogenic Aspects of Star Wars and the Specificities of its Stories in Regard to Serialized Storytelling
Pavlíček, Milan ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
Mythological and Mythogenic Aspects of Star Wars and the Specificities of its Stories in Regard to Serialized Storytelling covers the six stories of the Star Wars series in relation to Emil Volek's story model whose terminology and story typology is used to describe how the stories influence one another, which is to say, how the stories influence the reception of the other stories in the series and how the reception has changed over time. The diploma thesis also examines how myth is being applied to Star Wars and reflects whether such connection is justified. Both Star Wars and myth are given a definition and the relationship between the series and Joseph Campbell's monomyth, a concept frequently connected to Star Wars, is explored. The final part of the text describes narrative elements and processes participating in the creation of the original trilogy. An appendix covers various issues in regard to the translation of the series into Czech and briefly evaluates existing translations.
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