About the journal

Iluminace

The Journal of Film Theory, History, and Aesthetics

Iluminace is a peer-reviewed academic journal for scholarly reflection on cinema and audiovisual media. It emphasizes original research and interdisciplinary approaches, focuses on international authors and readers, and welcomes both traditional articles as well as articles with videoessays. It accepts manuscripts written in English, Czech, and Slovak.

Iluminace is a Diamond Open Access journal. It provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Anyone is free to download, re-use, print, and share the published content. Authors can publish free of charge and retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.

Iluminace applies Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Iluminace is indexed in Scopus, ERIH PLUS, DOAJ, Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text (EBSCO) and International Index to Film Periodicals (ProQuest).

Published by Národní filmový archiv, Prague

ISSN: 0862-397X (print), 2570-9267 (electronic)

History

The peer-reviewed journal Iluminace was founded in 1989 as a biannual journal for scholarly reflection upon cinema. It has been published on a quarterly basis since 1993, the fifth year of its existence when both the extent and format were also enlarged. Over the time period of its publication, Iluminace has presented original theoretical and historical studies. At the same time, Iluminace started to regularly dedicate extensive space to critical editions of sources on cinema history as well as to interviews with significant scholars and practitioners, that can serve both educational and research purposes. As with every academic journal, Iluminace includes reviews of new Czech and foreign-language academic books. Iluminace regularly publishes calls for papers for Special Issues prepared in cooperation with guest editors. Since 2022 Illuminace has been published three times a year.