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Hybrid Genre and Character Representation: Noir, Fantasy, and Fantasy Noir in Constantine, Pushing Daisies, and The Dresden FilesCampos, Brielle R. 01 June 2016 (has links)
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Televizní zábava na obrazovkách ČT a TV Nova na počátku tisíciletí a v současnosti / Television entertainment on TV screens of ČT and TV Nova in the early millenium and todayPrůšová, Denisa January 2020 (has links)
This diploma thesis deals with television entertainment as a phenomenon on Czech television screens. In the theoretical part the thesis provides an overview of entertainment as a term and concept and its definition, further describes its historical forms before the advent of mass media and its subsequent development towards the media entertainment revolution, with emphasis on establishing entertainment on television screens. The thesis then defines the entertainment functions of the media and their importance in society, but also the criticism of entertainment. The thesis also provides the classification of television entertainment genres and formats and examples of penetration of entertainment into other forms of communication. From the point of view of Czech legislation, it also evaluates the legal conditions for the broadcasting of television entertainment in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part concludes with the history of television entertainment on ČST and TV Nova. The practical part of the thesis aims to identify television entertainment at the beginning of the millennium on ČT and TV Nova in comparison with its current form and find the differences or similarities in television entertainment not only across the years, but also between a public and a commercial broadcaster. Based on...
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The attraction of sloppy nonsense: resolving cognitive estrangement in Stargate through the technologising of mythologyWhitelaw, Sandra January 2007 (has links)
The thesis consists of the novel, Stargate Atlantis: Exogenesis (Whitelaw and Christensen, 2006a) and an accompanying exegesis.
The novel is a stand-alone tie-in novel based on the television series Stargate Atlantis (Wright and Glassner), a spin-off series of Stargate SG-1 (Wright and Cooper) derived from the movie Stargate (Devlin and Emmerich, 1994). Set towards the end of the second season, Stargate Atlantis: Exogenesis begins with the discovery of life pods containing the original builders of Atlantis, the Ancients. The mind of one of these Ancients, Ea, escapes the pod and possesses Dr. Carson Beckett. After learning what has transpired in the 10,000 years since her confinement, the traumatised Ea releases an exogenesis machine to destroy Atlantis. Ea dies, leaving Beckett with sufficient of her memories to reveal that a second machine, on the planet Polrusso, could counter the effects of the first device. When the Atlantis team travel to Polrusso, what they discover has staggering implications not only for the future of Atlantis but for all life in the Pegasus Galaxy.
The exegesis argues that both science and science fiction narrate the dissolution of ontological structures, resulting in cognitive estrangement. Fallacy writers engage in the same process and use the same themes and tools as science fiction writers to resolve cognitive estrangement: they technologise mythology. Consequently, the distinction between fact and fiction, history and myth, is blurred.
The exegesis discusses cognitive estrangement, mythology, the process of technologising mythology and its function as a novum that facilitates the resolution of cognitive estrangement in both fallacy and science fiction narratives. These concepts are then considered in three Stargate tie-in novels, with particular reference to the creative work, Stargate Atlantis: Exogenesis.
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