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The Fight against Evil: Stereotypization of Antagonists in War-Themed Shooters
Houška, Jan ; Švelch, Jan (advisor) ; Krobová, Tereza (referee)
Using the method of qualitative content analysis, my research is focused on the visual and ideological representation of antagonists in eight PC games of first-person shooter genre (FPS), released between 2007 and 2019. The analysis is based on the identification of the stereotypical antagonistic representations. Its main attention is devoted to the ethnic and national stereotypes, because antagonists are ethnic and national Others in relation to protagonists. I aimed to define another summarizing and defining criterion of antagonistic representation, apart from the categories of othering already mentioned. In my thesis, I also describe ideological aspects which frame antagonistic representation. For the analysis of ideological content, I use Pötzsch's selective realism, which, by means of the four filters (violence, consequence, character and conflict) excludes negative and controversial aspects of war from FPS games. Not only does selective realism presents war selectively, it represents antagonistic actions selectively, too. In the text, I identify the stereotypical representations of three ethnic-national groups - orientalism and Cold War stereotypes in the case of Russians, neo-orientalism in the case of Middle Eastern antagonists and techno-orientalism in the case of East Asians. The ideology...
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The effect of agonist and antagonist disets on submaximal bench press
Zeman, Ondřej ; Šťastný, Petr (advisor) ; Petr, Miroslav (referee)
1 Abstract Title: The effect of agonist and antagonist superset on submaximal performance during BP Objectives: The aim of this work is to determine the differences in effect of different types of sets and order of individual exercises on submaximal performance in BP, with resistence of 4RM and 4-minute rest interval. Methods: In this work, a method of experimental research combined with a method of analysis was used. Method of a randomized experimental research was applied during the achal research with non-changing conditions. Later, the collected data were analysed and evaluated using the MBD method of analysing. Results: The results of this work are significant changes in numbers of performed sets of BP during KON, ANT and AGO schemes, with AGO having a negative effect of -38% of performance when compared with KON scheme with 100% probability. ANT, on the other hand, showed a positive effect of +20% when compared to KON scheme with 95% probability. The results of this work suggest that using AGO is a good method to increase submaximal performance in BP. Keywords: agonist, antagonist, volume, hypertrophy, individualization, physical intervention
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