and keywords Žaloudková, R.: Animated movie on primary school. [Thesis] Prague 2012 - Charles University, Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts, 124 s (Attachments: DVD with animated movies by pupils of elementary school, photo documentation) This thesis deals with creating animated films with pupils of primary school and it has the character of a survey. The survey is carried out a questionnaire. Art lessons are subsequently prepared on the basic of thesurvey results. The preparations are implemented, reflected and documented. The result and the benefits of the thesis are a) didactic material facilitating the creation of animated films in teaching b) children's animated films, which confirm connections between artistic creation and film/audiovisual education. KEY WORDS: Animated film, the first primary school, stop-motion animation, animation technology, art and culture, film / audiovisual education, ideas, preparing to lessons of arts, didactics, creation

This thesis deals with the depiction of racial and ethnic stereotypes in American animated cartoons particularly from the first half of the twentieth century. It studies the relationship between animation and American culture and examines how animation reflects and shapes American identity in terms of race and how it critiques and promotes American values and attitudes regarding race and ethnicity in particular. Considering the historical, political, legal and cultural background of the contemporary eras of American animation, the thesis analyses the portrayal of racial and ethnic features in animated cartoons from the 1920s to the 1960s. Such stereotypes represent, in my opinion, significant aspects of societal and cultural changes in American society of the examined eras of animation. The beginnings of the entertainment industry affected the booming era of animation by implementing commonly recognised literary stereotypes of the African-Americans into animated cartoons. This thesis strives to study the development of animated features of the racial stereotypes throughout the contemporary eras. It provides a brief systematic overview of the main eras that have significantly highlighted the start of animation as markers of race and ethnicity. Simultaneously, it discusses the problematic...