This bachelor thesis concentrates on the Lucernafilm produced
film melodramas in the era of the Protectorate of Bohemia and
Moravia, 1939 – 1945. The focus lies on the contemporary genre
diversification of the selected films, which are for the
purpose of the thesis defined as melodramas. Subsequently, the
thesis introduces author’s own categorization based both on the
then existing journalist, production and promotional discourse
and the contemporary cinema-studies and theoretical research.
The contribution of this thesis is mainly the new perspective
on the protectorate film production, especially on the
diversity of the period genre labelling, which has not been
reflected yet in historical and theoretical publications.