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This diploma thesis focuses on Czech teen comedies produced during the 2000s and the production practices associated with them. The thesis defines a teenage film as a film that not only thematizes adolescence, but primarily targets an adolescent audience. In other words, the film's creators were consciously aiming at teenagers. The basic conceptual framework used to select individual films is the category of film cycle, which is defined as a series of typologically related films produced over a limited period of time, while also conforming to the same genre conventions of a dominant genre trend. The selected films are analyzed at a specific historical moment with emphasis on the wider context of the contemporary film and media industry. The methodological approach is based on production studies and industrially oriented genre theory which views genre primarily as an industrial concept that should be examined in relation to the film business. The analysis of the production practice used in the teen comedies is grounded in interviews with the film creators. This thesis aims to show how individual producers used the business opportunities available to them at the time, how the industrial conditions are reflected in their work, and how they thought about the concepts of genre and film cycle while... |
