Magda Španihelová Our (Beautiful, Healthy, Modern and National) Body: Visual Representation of Ph... more Magda Španihelová Our (Beautiful, Healthy, Modern and National) Body: Visual Representation of Physical Culture and Sports in the Context of National Identity Formation in the Interwar Czechoslovakia Abstract This PhD thesis describes visual representation of partial aspects of physical culture and sports in interwar Czechoslovakia. The general phenomenon of social affiliation and national identification is critically observed in four central chapters, together with the usage of symbolic figures that are in periodical visual productions exposed as different body types. Aside the Sokol gymnastics club and its' attempt to formulate the national body, the central figure is the wrestler Gustav Frištenský who as the bearer of traditional concepts of health and beauty also represented the responsible modern citizenship. The dancer Milča Mayerová provides the framework for the exposure of dance culture as a characteristic phenomenon of the cultivation of the female body by movement, wh...
This thesis explores the various forms of the body and corporeality represented in the lesserknow... more This thesis explores the various forms of the body and corporeality represented in the lesserknown film form called screen dance. This work focuses on the dancing body, which is transformed through performance. Two art forms are discussed in relation to each other - dance and film, and their mutual influence and connection. Focus is placed on the cultural context of the West. The thesis does not follow the chronological development of different dance styles; rather, it is divided into four categories of corporeality (the laboring, marked, repressed and disappearing body), which help to classify the different creative approaches to recording the body in motion and its various representations in film. The examined film material dates from the mid-1940's to the present. This work analyzes the various ways in which dancing bodies are portrayed in film, the new types of corporeality emerging in screen dance, and the symbolic and ideological values contained in film portrayals of danc...
The Department of Cinema Studies at Charles University in Prague, in connection with the Universi... more The Department of Cinema Studies at Charles University in Prague, in connection with the University of Southampton (United Kingdom), would like to invite you to the second annual Contemporary Central and South-East European Cinema in Transition Post-Graduate Conference, taking place in Prague, on 4th and 5th June 2015. The theme of this year’s
conference is “Space in Two Dimensions: Exploring the Concept of Space in the Visual Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe”.
Magda Španihelová Our (Beautiful, Healthy, Modern and National) Body: Visual Representation of Ph... more Magda Španihelová Our (Beautiful, Healthy, Modern and National) Body: Visual Representation of Physical Culture and Sports in the Context of National Identity Formation in the Interwar Czechoslovakia Abstract This PhD thesis describes visual representation of partial aspects of physical culture and sports in interwar Czechoslovakia. The general phenomenon of social affiliation and national identification is critically observed in four central chapters, together with the usage of symbolic figures that are in periodical visual productions exposed as different body types. Aside the Sokol gymnastics club and its' attempt to formulate the national body, the central figure is the wrestler Gustav Frištenský who as the bearer of traditional concepts of health and beauty also represented the responsible modern citizenship. The dancer Milča Mayerová provides the framework for the exposure of dance culture as a characteristic phenomenon of the cultivation of the female body by movement, wh...
This thesis explores the various forms of the body and corporeality represented in the lesserknow... more This thesis explores the various forms of the body and corporeality represented in the lesserknown film form called screen dance. This work focuses on the dancing body, which is transformed through performance. Two art forms are discussed in relation to each other - dance and film, and their mutual influence and connection. Focus is placed on the cultural context of the West. The thesis does not follow the chronological development of different dance styles; rather, it is divided into four categories of corporeality (the laboring, marked, repressed and disappearing body), which help to classify the different creative approaches to recording the body in motion and its various representations in film. The examined film material dates from the mid-1940's to the present. This work analyzes the various ways in which dancing bodies are portrayed in film, the new types of corporeality emerging in screen dance, and the symbolic and ideological values contained in film portrayals of danc...
The Department of Cinema Studies at Charles University in Prague, in connection with the Universi... more The Department of Cinema Studies at Charles University in Prague, in connection with the University of Southampton (United Kingdom), would like to invite you to the second annual Contemporary Central and South-East European Cinema in Transition Post-Graduate Conference, taking place in Prague, on 4th and 5th June 2015. The theme of this year’s
conference is “Space in Two Dimensions: Exploring the Concept of Space in the Visual Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe”.
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conference is “Space in Two Dimensions: Exploring the Concept of Space in the Visual Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe”.
conference is “Space in Two Dimensions: Exploring the Concept of Space in the Visual Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe”.