This thesis focuses on practical application of intermedia perspective while comparing cinematographic work and literary work in the form of film screenplay.

This thesis discusses the similarities in coming-out depictions in contemporary European cinema focusing on teenage and coming-of-age queer male characters. While based on understanding the coming out as a sociological phenomenon with strereotypical development, it allows for deviations both in reality and in film. The thesis further aims to identify common elements in films with coming-out narratives: repetitive narrative techniques, themes, characters and motives. Using the analyses of three films, the thesis also examines the importance of coming-out stories in broader film narrative.

The main task of this master's dissertation is to create an outline of various translation strategies of French film titles into Czech language and to identify their statistic significance. It contains films distributed into the Czech republic from 1990 to 2006. It is divided into two main parts. The first part deals with typology and translation of titles, development of French cinematography from it`s beginning to the present day, institutions promoting French films in France and in the Czech republic as well as the appreciation of French cinematography by Czech audience. The second part contains classification of films from the above mentioned era according to their title translation followed by an analysis of every single category, which leads to nine strategies and their percentage analysis.

Martina Buchlová Summary This thesis looks into the methods of imagination in Egyptian cinema through in-depth analysis of the film adaptation of the Nobel Prize Winner Nagīb Maḥfūẓ's novel Bajna 'l-Qaṣrajn. For the analysis, combined approaches of narratology, film theory and neo- formalism have been used. All the observations and conclusions are supported by evidence in form of extracts from the novel and/or stills from the film. The initial chapter gives a brief account of the history and tendencies of Egyptian cinema from its beginnings to the 1960's, when the analysed film was shot. It also summs up the carrier of the film's director, Ḥasan al-Imām, and puts the film into the appropriate context. Furthermore, this chapter lists the storyline of the novel and mentions a few basic facts about its inception. In the next chapter, the transfer of narrative features of the text into film is being discussed, using the model of cardinal functions by Roland Barthes. A table gives precise account of the narrative elements which were transfered to the film and those which were not or were subject to considerable changes. The following chapter deals with the transfer of the novel's non-narrative elements (whose adaptation to the new medium requires a more inventional approach), such as description of the time and...

American Ways of War and Strategic Culture: A Reflection in Domestic and Foreign Cinematography Katarína Kondrótová Abstract This thesis examines the portrayal of American strategic culture in movies from the USA and two countries with which the USA has been in conflict with - Vietnam and Afghanistan. The research focuses on comparing them with official US strategies and contrasting the different national portrayals among themselves. The aim is to discover how the USA and its way of war is depicted at home and abroad through movies - a popular medium with the power to shape perceptions. The research is anchored in the international relations theory of post-structuralism and the concepts of strategic culture and national ways of war. They serve as a lens through which the most popular war movies from each country are analyzed. The findings showed that American movies were more precise in depicting their real-life strategic approaches and tended to be more derogatory in their portrayal of their adversaries. They also showed a more critical depiction of US conduct in Vietnam compared to Afghanistan. When it comes to the foreign movies, Vietnamese films were more critical of the USA than Afghan films, but not as disdainful of the enemy as the USA. Afghan depictions exhibited the dual nature of their opinion of...

This diploma thesis deals with the process of creating an Audiovisual Act in the context of the transformation of audiovisual legislation in the Czech Republic after 1989. Although there was increasing pressure on change over time, as the original legislation did not reflect the epoch and was inadequate, this process lasted almost twenty years. The aim of the thesis is to understand the dynamics of the change in the process of creating audiovisual legislation, focusing on Act No. 496/2012 Coll. Next, identify the actors and factors that have had the greatest impact on policy change. To do so, this work uses and applies the theoretical framework of the Multiple Streams Framework, through which it sets the basic prerequisites for research. The methodological approach is a qualitative research and a research design of a single-case study. In terms of data collection, the text is based on six expert semi-structured interviews that form the base of primary research. Subsequent data are in the form of various documents, studies, press and annual reports, stenographies from the Chamber of Deputies, or, for example, the talk shows in which the process was discussed. Data analysis was conducted using thematic coding technique. Audiovisual legislation entered the political agenda in 2006, but it did not...

After the First World War, the Catholic Church intensified its interest in a world that was becoming ever more secular and began to look for new means of actively and creatively taking part in cultural affairs. Cinematography was one of the areas in which this trend became most apparent. It was shortly after the invention of cinematograph that various ideas and plans regarding how to deal with film began to emerge among Catholics. Consequently, the Pope gave his blessing to community-based initiatives and included them in his plan in the encyclical Vigilanti Cura. This study seeks to familiarise the reader with a multifarious mixture of interesting, and often contradictory, voices and opinions that were heard from Czech Catholics with regard to film. Catholic activities in the field of film are divided into three basic areas: production, classification and distribution, with the first area concerning the effort to make their own Catholic films. This study demonstrates the problems faced in this endeavour by presenting the difficulties in the making of the film Saint Wenceslas and the consequent relationship of Catholics to the completed work. The classification of films from the Catholic point of view was carried out systematically and in a coordinated manner. The study deals with the origins of...

The topic of my diploma thesis is a comparison of speculation about a film from two perspectives. Firstly, it deals with the approach of Jan Mukařovský, a Czech structuralist, who was one of the first in the Czech context to explore the time concept in a film. Secondly, it considers the approach of Gillese Deleuze, who was accredited with the new view on the time-image in a film, however, much later than Jan Mukařovský. The aim of the paper is to explain the way the approaches of Mukařovský and Deluze relate to other approaches of thinking about time in films, the influence of other concepts of their time that they both theoretically based their views on, as well as specifying the films that became the starting points of exploring the time in films. The method of comparison is divided into three aspects, as three comparison levels.

Our master's thesis is an interdisciplinary study on the play No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre and its film adaptations - the French one directed by Jacqueline Audrey in 1954, and the English one directed by Philip Saville in 1964. The work is divided into two parts - literary and cinematographic analysis. In the first part we will focus on the play No Exit in the historical, cultural and philosophical context, find its role among the other literary texts of Sartre and study in more detail the text itself - its form, main motifs, etc. In the second part we will analyze its cinematographic potential. Comparing the two adaptations with each other and with the play, we will start with the general characteristics and then move on to the comparative analysis of two chosen episodes.

Verletzungen der oberflächlichen Beugesehne (OBS) sind eine der häufigsten Ursachen für Lahmheiten bei Sportpferden. Biplanare Hochfrequenz-Fluoreszenz Kinematografie (FluoKin) gilt aufgrund hoher Präzision als Goldstandard für die skelettale Bewegungsanalyse. Zur funktionellen Untersuchung der OBS kann mit dieser Technik nach der minimalinvasiven Implantation von Tantalkugeln in die OBS ebenso eine präzise Messung der Sehnendehnung in vivo anhand der Änderung der Intermarkerdistanzen (IMD) in Bewegung erfolgen. Die bislang nur innerhalb einer Pilotstudie an einem Pony getestete Methode zur FluoKin-basierten Messung der Dehnung der OBS wird in dieser Studie an vier weiteren Ponys validiert. Der Versuch umfasst die FluoKin-basierte Messung der Dehnung der OBS beider Vordergliedmaßen an vier Ponys im Schritt und Trab. Die OBS wurde im gesunden Zustand sowie zwei, acht und 22 Wochen nach Induktion einer Sehnenläsion in der rechten Vordergliedmaße mit Kollagenase untersucht. Parallel zu den FluoKin-Messungen wurde die Heilung der Sehne im Rahmen von Ultraschalluntersuchungen dokumentiert. Im Gegensatz zu der kontinuierlichen Verbesserung der klinischen Befunde kam es bei allen Ponys im Studienverlauf zu einer Verringerung der Sehnendehnung in der Metakarpalregion der verletzten OBS. So beträgt die Gesamtänderung der IMD im Rahmen der Sehnenheilung zum Zeitpunkt der Hauptstützphase im Vergleich zum physiologischen Zustand durchschnittlich -2,56 % ± 1,76 % (Schritt) bzw. -4,0 % ± 2,11 % (Trab). Im läsionsnahen Sehnenabschnitt in der mittleren Metakarpalregion zeigt sich teilweise ein gegensätzliches Dehnungsmuster nach Verletzung der Sehne und es wurde eine vermehrte Zunahme der IMD nach Verletzung der OBS gemessen. Die Verwendung der hochpräzisen FluoKin-Technik ermöglicht die Messung der Sehnendehnung im physiologischen Zustand der Sehne sowie in verschiedenen Stadien einer induzierten Tendinopathie. Anhand der Änderung der Sehnendehnung in der (mittleren) Metakarpalregion der OBS im Studienverlauf kann gezeigt werden, dass Verletzungen der OBS mit einer biomechanischen Funktionsveränderung im Vergleich zum physiologischen Zustand verbunden sind, die auch noch nach Abklingen der klinischen Symptome und einer Verbesserung der Ultraschallbefunde besteht. Der Heilungsprozess führt somit auch noch nach 22 Wochen nicht zu einer Besserung der Funktionalität des Sehnengewebes