<p>In this thesis I have done a discourse analysis of the documentary movie <em>A Jihad for Love</em>. <em>A Jihad for Love </em>came out 2007 and is directed by Parvez Sharma. The documentary movie is about homosexual Muslims and their jihad, struggle, for love and to be accepted in a world where they are barely recognized as a group. My aim of the thesis was to see how the movie portrays the persons who are in the film and their relationship to Islam and who gets access to the religion. I have also analyzed if Islam can be used to strengthen the sexual identity or if it works in the opposite way. I have used the theoretical instrument of intersectionality and religious proximity with a gender perspective with focus on sexuality and religion to analyze my material.</p><p>My conclusions of the thesis are that the men in the movie are often more portrayed as active subjects that can use the religion as a tool to strengthen the sexuality. The women are more portrayed as inactive objects that cannot use the religion to strengthen their sexual identity because of different power axes, like gender and sexuality, which collide and with each other. Another conclusion is that men have a higher grade of religious proximity which makes them closer to God, whereas the women traditionally don’t have the same closeness to God and cannot therefore have the same power in the religious hierarchy.</p><p> </p>

In this thesis I have done a discourse analysis of the documentary movie A Jihad for Love. A Jihad for Love came out 2007 and is directed by Parvez Sharma. The documentary movie is about homosexual Muslims and their jihad, struggle, for love and to be accepted in a world where they are barely recognized as a group. My aim of the thesis was to see how the movie portrays the persons who are in the film and their relationship to Islam and who gets access to the religion. I have also analyzed if Islam can be used to strengthen the sexual identity or if it works in the opposite way. I have used the theoretical instrument of intersectionality and religious proximity with a gender perspective with focus on sexuality and religion to analyze my material. My conclusions of the thesis are that the men in the movie are often more portrayed as active subjects that can use the religion as a tool to strengthen the sexuality. The women are more portrayed as inactive objects that cannot use the religion to strengthen their sexual identity because of different power axes, like gender and sexuality, which collide and with each other. Another conclusion is that men have a higher grade of religious proximity which makes them closer to God, whereas the women traditionally don’t have the same closeness to God and cannot therefore have the same power in the religious hierarchy.

The following thesis offers an insight into a collection of documentary movies, which were screened in the category Czech Competition (Česká sekce) presented by the film festival One World (Jeden svět), as well as the nomination process behind it. The first section of the Body of this Thesis (Practical Part) is focused on the nomination process. In particular its objective is to describe principal changes in the nomination process and at the same time outline its future developments. This is achieved by means of exclusive interviews with five Program Section members in charge of the nomination process (both former and contemporary). Heightened attention is being dedicated to the films nominated for the Czech Competition section with regards to its specifics. The other part of the thesis body is based on thorough analysis of the films selected for the Czech competition between the years 2010-2019. By means of original interviews and content analysis the thesis attempts to establish an idea of which features are significant for the films representing the Czech Republic at this documentary film festival and what conclusions can be drawn from this about the Czech documentary film scene in general. The theoretical part of the thesis offers sourcing this approach in expert literature.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:30:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DAlmeida.pdf: 1180900 bytes, checksum: 75438076e785258e5c78b3858cae16b6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-12-09 / This work seeks to identify the ways in which folk culture is (re)interpreted in the mass media through the analysis of documentary movies produced between 1968 and 1970 in the Northeast by Caravana Farkas; the pioneer in documenting the manifests of the Brazilian folk culture. In order to accomplish such purpose, Farkas s documentaries are discussed in this study as to how they fit in the Brazilian political-cultural perspective of the 60 s. This study also looks at which conditions allowed for the building of Farkas s speeches, the rules such speeches established, and finally how and why such folk cultural manifestations have become object of study and attention of the so many movie makers ¾ and what was defined by them as folk culture . The basic theme that transpires in Farkas s documentaries is one of the other culture, one which has its place in the past and does not belong in the here and now of modernity. The individuality and the representation of the other are trespassed by the social differences and the character of the political and cultural resistance of the folk culture. In the movie makers point of view, much is lost in the appearances of a world whose destiny has already been determined: the extinction. The documentaries, on the other hand, serve as a mean of confrontation between the different cultures and also as a mean of dialogue between them, generating new and multiple meanings that do not depend on the movie makers will. As a consequence, a new speech about a determined reality arises to life. Not much as an image (as the one seen in a mirror), but more a reference of a time and space that cannot be relived. On the tracks of the folk culture, the trip of the Caravana Farkas does not lead to a final or tranquil ending; for it is intertwined by contradictions and incompatibilities that questions aroused by the discussion of reality brings about. But the trip makes evident that its importance for the studies in Communication is in its own journey and in its permanent and endless dialogue between cultures it provokes. / Este trabalho busca identificar a maneira pela qual a cultura popular é (re)interpretada nos meios de comunicação de massa, a partir da análise dos filmes documentários produzidos pela Caravana Farkas, um projeto pioneiro de documentação de manifestações de cultura popular brasileira, realizado entre 1968 e 1970 no Nordeste. Para tanto, discute-se como os filmes se inserem no panorama político-cultural do Brasil da década de 60; quais as condições que permitiram a construção de seus discursos; que regras esses discursos estabeleceram; como e por que as manifestações culturais populares passaram a constituir objeto de estudo e de registro dos cineastas; e o que era definido por eles como cultura popular . O tema básico que perpassa os filmes é o da cultura de uma classe outra, que está no passado e não tem lugar no aqui e agora da modernidade. A alteridade e a representação do outro estão traspassadas pelas diferenças de classe, e o caráter de resistência cultural e política das manifestações de cultura popular, na visão dos cineastas, se perde na aparência de um mundo cujo destino já está traçado: é a extinção. Os filmes documentários, por outro lado, servem de lugar de confronto das diferentes culturas e de diálogo entre elas, gerando novos e múltiplos significados, que independem da vontade dos cineastas. É dessa maneira que constroem um novo discurso acerca de uma determinada realidade. Menos um reflexo, no sentido de espelhamento, mais uma referência de um tempo e um espaço que não se repetirão. Nas trilhas da cultura popular, a viagem da Caravana Farkas não chega a um termo nem a um final tranqüilo, pois é envolvida pelas contradições e incompatibilidades que as questões suscitadas pela discussão do real provocam. Mas deixa evidente que a sua importância para os estudos da Comunicação está na própria jornada e no diálogo permanente e infinito entre culturas que esse caminhar provoca.