Iluminace, 1989 (vol. 1), issue 1

Articles

The Film as/and a Mirror : A Research into the Possibilities of One Analogy

Vlastimil Zuska

Iluminace 1989, 1(1):3-16  

About the perception of the film and the perceptual experience with the mirror, about the aesthetic and semiotic possibilities of explaining the function and action of the film, based on this analogy.

A Semantic-Syntactic Approach to Film Genre

Rick Altman

Iluminace 1989, 1(1):17-29  

Adapted from Film Genre Reader (Austin, University of Texas Press 1986, pp. 26-40). Translation by Vlastimil Zuska.

Reflections on the National Character of Czech Cinema after 1918

Jiří Rak

Iluminace 1989, 1(1):30-42  

The article presents the period after 1918, when there was an extensive discussion not only in the pages of the press about the national character of our Czech film. Supplemented by a number of quotations from the contemporary press.

Crisis, an American Documentary Film in the Service of Czechoslovakia

Tomáš Grulich

Iluminace 1989, 1(1):43-52  

The history of the making of the American documentary Crisis (d. Herbert Kline, 1938), the subject of which was the political events in Czechoslovakia before the Nazi occupation, and its influence on American society.

Tendencies of National Defence in Czech Feature Films during the Nazi Occupation

Ivan Klimeš

Iluminace 1989, 1(1):53-77  

About the situation in Czech film during the Nazi occupation, with a focus on the motifs and thematic sources of Czech feature film, which became Czech history, literature, music, and the homeland (specified on individual films).

Questions without Answers

Jan Lukeš

Iluminace 1989, 1(1):78-94  

A reflection on Czechoslovak film of the 1980s, specifically the films Why? (Proč?; d. Karel Smyczek, 1987) and Big Money (Bony a klid; Vít Olmer, 1987).

Edition

Some Remarks on Jiří Voskovec and the Cinema

Michal Bregant

Iluminace 1989, 1(1):95-116  

Film activities of the theatre and film actor, playwright and screenwriter Jiří Voskovec, including his collaboration with Jan Werich in the 1920s and 1930s.

Nicotine. A Poem of Smoke : (The Screenplay for a Lyrical Film)

Jiří Voskovec

Iluminace 1989, 1(1):117-121  

Unrealised script of an avant-garde lyrical film published in the magazine Disk in 1925.

Photogeny and Superreality

Jiří Voskovec

Iluminace 1989, 1(1):122-125  

An example of avant-garde theoretical thinking about the film medium in the 1920s. The article defines the concepts of photography, suprareality and photogeny.