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U.S.-Japan Relations from the Perspective of American Cinema
Toman, David ; Záhora, Jakub (advisor) ; Kotvalová, Anna (referee)
This Master's thesis provides an analysis of the contemporary depiction of significant historical moments in U.S.-Japan relations in American cinematography, specifically in the films: The Last Samurai, Pearl Harbor, Letters from Iwo Jima, and Emperor. The analysis elaborates on theoretical stream of popular culture and world politics and most particularly on the popular geopolitics discipline. A discourse analysis is used as the research method, through which the three main aspects of popular geopolitics in the selected movies are followed - representational logics, affect, and intertextuality. The research goal is to tackle the question, how the historical milestones in U.S.-Japan relations are portrayed in the present and how their portrayal is linked to the current geopolitical context. The research shows that filmmakers usually try to offer a balanced view of both sides, which means there are positive and negative portrayals of both Japanese and American characters. Japanese villains are usually militarists, which is in line with the postwar narrative of the American Occupation administration. The trend of negative portrayal of Americans has been strengthened only recently due to controversies related to the War on Terror. The main finding, however, is the fact that although Japan is...
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Jump cut, the cut jumping about conventions of continuity editing
Kozáková, Tereza ; BROTHÁNEK, Adam (advisor) ; ČIHÁK, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines the discontinuous editing process - jump cut in the theoretical-historical context, as well as in the three film analyzes, both practical and meaningful.
The theoretical part of this work serves to realize the basic principles of shearing composition and, in particular, defines the circumstances that are behind the successful binding of shots in general. The next part of the text is devoted to the technical aspects of the jump cut and the related aspects that are decisive for its composite quality. This part also explores the historical origin of the jump cut on film examples, where it appears first and / or consciously. To a large extent, how much and how the popular film criticism has contributed to its popularization.
Finally, the analysis of the three selected films examine both the useful jump cut and the occasions when it is not. Analysis are specifically intended to characterize the importance of jump cut and its impact on the viewer in the story of the analyzed works and whether, under what circumstances the jump cut contributed to the resulting whole or not of the work.
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Přenášení významu přes pohyb: pomocí handheld vs steadicam pro pohyblivý úhel pohledu v celovečerních filmech
Joseph, Abraham ; GAHUT, Michael (advisor) ; FUXJÄGER, Klaus (referee)
Tato diplomová práce se pokouší studovat dvě techniky používané při natáčení pohybujícího se úhlu pohledu ve filmech - kapesní kameru a Steadicam - k analýze toho, jak přispívají nebo zlepšují "realismus" ve filmu. K tomu dochází přezkoumáním stávající literatury o pohybu kamery a popsáním historie těchto dvou technik. Tato diplomová práce se také zabývá tím, jak byl pohybující úhel pohledu kinematograficky zachycován do dnešního dne. Na základě historického základu tato diplomová práce staví svůj teoretický předpoklad, mimořádně podpořený Andre Bazinovou teorií o filmovém realismu či filmy a představami o kinematografii, které uvedl Robert Bresson. Nakonec tato práce formuluje novou klasifikaci úhlu pohledu a perspektiv a analyzuje dva filmy (LászlóNemesův SonOfSaulaGusVanSantův Elephant) ,přičemžkaždý používá jednu z těchto technik natáčení pohybujícího se úhlu pohledu. Tímto způsobem se pokouší o pochopení, která z těchto technik pohybu kamery je nejblíže k dosažení "realismu" a představě kinematografie, jak je šíří Bresson.
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Cinema of transgression
Čejková, Karolína ; DAŇHEL, Jan (advisor) ; BLAŽÍČEK, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with loose American group of filmmakers from 80s which
is called Cinema of Transgression. It explores films of Nick Zedd, Richard Kern and
David Wojnarowicz. The thesis is trying to find a common formal practise which
were used by the filmmakers to confront the viewer. Thanks to light explanation
of the term transgression, in interpretation of Georges Bataille, reader can view
those films in a new perspective. The thesis is trying to understand motivations,
creation and its process and reason of death of those films.
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Psychoanalysis like a narative tool
Dvořák, Michal ; MALIMÁNEK, Karel (advisor) ; BROTHÁNEK, Adam (referee)
We see the film like a reality because our perception of the film is like
a reality around us. Movie as a dream and like a dream has unique tools how describe our soul and unconscious processes. This advantage is a crucial for my research, how can be useful for understanding how our unconscious works. C. G. Jung and Joseph Campbell and his work helps me with looking for the answer. How can film speak to us through the psychological layer instead of the narrative layer.
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Between life and death
Veljanoski, Antonio ; MALIMÁNEK, Karel (advisor) ; TRAJKOV, Ivo (referee)
This diploma thesis is focused on film scenes or sequences in which the main characters move from life to death (i.e. they die) and from death to life. The thesis contains a summary and analysis of these scenes from editorial and psychological point of view, as well as from formal point of view. This thesis presents only the most basic examples of the world cinematography. Sequence selection includes a variety of cases that differ from one another. The aim is to analyse the different variations of the examples, which enables the readers of this thesis to understand the importance of editing and film dramaturgy during the creation of film, and it shows how they affect the behavior of the characters from a psychological point of view. Some of the films that deal with this subject are not covered by this diploma thesis because they contain the tools already used in another film that was made earlier and has already been analysed in the text. The thesis focuses mainly on feature films, not on animated ones. This thesis includes a DVD, which contains almost all the analyzed scenes.
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Narrative modes of the mind game film from 1990 to 2005
Dvorská, Veronika ; KAJÁNKOVÁ, Lucia (advisor) ; POZZI, Jaroslav (referee)
The thesis examines the context and practical applictations of the narrative modes of the mind game film.
It introduces the reader to broad implications of the modern narration phenomena (where the narrative twists themself are an object of viewer's immersion and suspensions on par with audiovisual attractions).
Later, it uses terms such as perspective, anagnorisis and various types of unreliable narration to further classify and deconstruct the narrative structures of the mind game film as defined by Thomas Elsaesser.
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