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The diploma thesis Stereotypes of representation of the Protectorate period in Contemporary Film Creation focuses on the examination of stereotypical depictions of fictional worlds determined by a historical model in film production thematically situated in the period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The subject of the research is mainly gender stereotypes of fictional characters and stereotyping of the fictional environment on the example of costumes, masks, period props, musical accompaniment and other elements of narration. The theoretical framework of the work is based primarily on the findings presented in the Introduction to the Semantics of Fictional Worlds by Bohumil Fořt and by Narrative Ways in Czech Literature by Lubomír Doležel. The knowledge of stereotyping theory is drawn from Nick Lacey's Image and Representation: Key Concepts in Media Studies and Pierre Sorlin's Europian Cinemas, Europian Societies 1939-1990. To obtain the necessary information about filmmaking, the publications of Radomír D. Kokeš, The Analysis of Film and David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, The Art of Film: An Introduction to the Study of Form and Style, were used. The research sample on which this tendency is presented is the Czech war drama Operation Silver A, which depicts the everyday reality of...

Os filmes de ficção e as telenovelas são modalidades mais recentes do antigo hábito de contar e ouvir histórias. O cinema clássico desenvolveu normas e estratégias para organizar as narrativas. A telenovela se aproveitou de várias delas, assimilando algumas e modificando outras. Um grupo de filmes contemporâneos brasileiros aceitou algumas das características desenvolvidas pelas telenovelas e, ao mesmo tempo, herdou outras diretamente do modelo do cinema clássico, compondo um nicho de filmes bem recebido pela crítica e pelo público. Ao analisar obras do cinema clássico, telenovelas e filmes contemporâneos, as qualidades fundamentais do modo de contar histórias foram agrupadas em: organização da narrativa, personagens e protagonistas, e tempo e espaço. / Fiction films and soap operas are modern versions of the ancient habit of hearing and telling stories. Classic cinema has developed norms and strategies to organize narratives. Soap opera took advantage of these characteristics, has assimilated some and changed others. A group of Brazilian contemporary films have accepted some of these changes developed by soap opera, and, at the same time, inherited others directly from the classic model of narration. These films form a specific group well accepted by critics and public. Based on the analysis of classic movies, soap operas and contemporary Brazilian films, the narrative features were grouped as follow: narrative organization, characters and protagonists, and time and space.

Cette thèse a pour objectif de montrer en quoi l'automobile est un motif du cinéma allemand et d'en proposer une étude, à partir d'un corpus constitué de cinq films. Ce faisant, ce sont aussi les premiers jalons pour une théorie esthétique de l'automobile au cinéma qui sont posés, à l'exemple du cinéma allemand. Une première partie médiologique et esthétique montrera que l’automobile est un motif réflexif du cinéma, c’est-à-dire un motif par lequel le cinéma se réfléchit et réfléchit sur lui-même, en tant qu'art et en tant que médium. Tour à tour reflet du cinéma ou de caméra, appareil de projection ou d'enregistrement, la voiture apparaît comme un motif à travers lequel le cinéma se met en abyme. La deuxième partie étudie l’automobile comme motif narratif. La voiture, dans sa dimension réflexive, peut apparaître comme un signe énonciatif, ce qui permet, entre autres, d'aborder la question du narrateur au cinéma. Mais la voiture est aussi un objet matériel chargé d'un fort potentiel narratif. En outre, l'automobile est aussi un motif structurant pour un récit filmique (par exemple dans le road movie), dans la mesure où un trajet en voiture peut apparaître comme un segment minimal de narration filmique. Le motif automobile induit ainsi la construction d'un espace filmique qui pose, en creux, la question du cinéma national. La troisième partie aborde le motif automobile à travers les notions de personnage, de stéréotype et de genre cinématographique. L'automobile est liée à certains stéréotypes de genre, notamment parce qu'elle en général principalement associée aux personnages masculins. La question du genre permet de passer de la notion de gender à celle de genre cinématographique. L'automobile est-elle caractéristique de certains genres? On pense évidemment au road movie, mais force est de constater que l'automobile ressurgit dans tous les genres et à toutes les époques – au point de se demander si elle ne serait pas, finalement, un stéréotype du cinéma. / This thesis aims to prove that the automobile is what we might call a motif in German Cinema and studies this motif in a corpus of five films. It thus also proposes, on the basis of this exemplary study of German Cinema, to lay the groundwork for a general aesthetics of the automobile in film. The first part will take an aesthetic and mediological approach, to argue that the link between the automobile and cinema is a reflexive one. Through the motif of the automobile, the cinema very often points the finger at itself. Furthermore, the car as a machine evokes the machinery of the cinema: the wheel recalls the projector’s wheel, the ribbon of the road evokes the unfurling reel of film, and the different mirrors and window hint at the lens of the camera – a camera that is driven from place to place. Finally, the car’s interior is comparable to a movie theatre: both have a screen, both offer a perspective on the world while isolating and protecting the viewer from this world. The second part of the thesis deals with aspects of filmic narration. As a reflexive motif, the car can be interpreted as an enunciative sign, that is to say a place for the film’s enunciation. The car is also an object (a prop or a piece of the set), whose materiality brings a stratum of narrativity into the film. Moreover, the car, with its trajectory interrupted by accidents or breaking down, often offers a pattern for the film’s narrative. Thus, the motif of the car implies a strong relationship to space, which suggests a new way of approaching the question of the definition of a “national cinema”. The third part links the motif of the automobile to the notions of characters, stereotype and film genre. The automobile has to deal with gender stereotypes, in particular because it is generally strongly related to men. But the concept of “genre” also establishes a relation between “gender” and “(film) genre”. Is the motif of the automobile typical of certain film genres? It seems to be omnipresent in all periods and genres (and certainly not only in road movies), so it might even be said that the automobile is, ultimately, a cinematic stereotype. / Ziel der Dissertation ist es zu zeigen, dass das Automobil ein Motiv des deutschen Films ist und eine Analyse dieses Motivs am Beispiel eines aus fünf Filmen bestehenden Korpus vorzulegen. Dabei geht es auch darum, die ersten Ansätze zu einer ästhetischen Theorie des Autos als filmischen Motivs zu entwickeln. In einem ersten Teil medienwissenschaftlicher und ästhetischer Ausrichtung wird vorgebracht, dass dem Auto im Kino die Rolle eines Motivs der Reflexivität zukommt. Der Wagen kann als eine Kinokammer betrachtet werden, während die Maschinerie des Autos an die Maschinerie des Projektors erinnert. Mit dem Motiv des Autos reflektiert das Kino sich selbst und über sich selbst – als Kunst und als Medium. Diese These bildet die theoretische Grundlage der Arbeit und rechtfertigt die Wahl des Themas. Im zweiten Teil wird das Auto unter dem Gesichtspunkt der filmischen Narration analysiert. In seiner reflexiven Dimension erscheint das Auto als ein „enunziatives Zeichen“, womit ein neues Licht auf die Frage des filmischen Erzählers geworfen werden kann. Das Auto kann in mehrfacher Hinsicht die filmische Erzählung untermauern: Als Fortbewegungsmittel, das einen Kurs bestimmt – wie etwa in Roadmovies – aber auch als materieller Gegenstand, der zur Kulisse wird oder als Besitz der Figuren zum symbolischen Attribut der Figuren wird. Im dritten Teil wird das Motiv des Autos mit Blick auf die Begriffe „Figuren“, „Stereotyp“ und „Genre“ in Betracht genommen. Das Auto ist mit bestimmten Gender-Stereotypen verbunden, da es oft mit männlichen Figuren assoziiert wird. Der Begriff des Stereotyps bietet hier die Möglichkeit, eine Brücke zwischen Gender und (Film-)Genre zu schlagen. Ist das Motiv des Autos typisch für gewisse Filmgenres? Man assoziiert es sogleich mit dem Roadmovie, aber es muss auch festgestellt werden, dass das Auto in allen Genres und in allen Epochen immer wieder vorkommt, so dass schließlich gefragt werden darf, ob das Auto nicht selbst ein Filmstereotyp sei.

Os filmes de ficção e as telenovelas são modalidades mais recentes do antigo hábito de contar e ouvir histórias. O cinema clássico desenvolveu normas e estratégias para organizar as narrativas. A telenovela se aproveitou de várias delas, assimilando algumas e modificando outras. Um grupo de filmes contemporâneos brasileiros aceitou algumas das características desenvolvidas pelas telenovelas e, ao mesmo tempo, herdou outras diretamente do modelo do cinema clássico, compondo um nicho de filmes bem recebido pela crítica e pelo público. Ao analisar obras do cinema clássico, telenovelas e filmes contemporâneos, as qualidades fundamentais do modo de contar histórias foram agrupadas em: organização da narrativa, personagens e protagonistas, e tempo e espaço. / Fiction films and soap operas are modern versions of the ancient habit of hearing and telling stories. Classic cinema has developed norms and strategies to organize narratives. Soap opera took advantage of these characteristics, has assimilated some and changed others. A group of Brazilian contemporary films have accepted some of these changes developed by soap opera, and, at the same time, inherited others directly from the classic model of narration. These films form a specific group well accepted by critics and public. Based on the analysis of classic movies, soap operas and contemporary Brazilian films, the narrative features were grouped as follow: narrative organization, characters and protagonists, and time and space.

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