Iluminace, 1990 (vol. 2), issue 1


From Kulunda to Chernobyl. The life journey of director V. Shevchenko

Bohdan Zilynskyj

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):90-92  

Review of the monograph on the Ukrainian documentary filmmaker. - Ihor Malyshevskyj: Volodymyr Shevchenko. From Kulunda to Chernobyl. Kijiv 1988.

Two international conferences on film history

Zdeněk Štábla

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):103-105  

International Conference on German Film during the Weimar Republic (Luxembourg, 14-18 June 1989) and a congress dedicated to the work of Alexander P. Dovzhenko (Kiev, 9-13 September 1989).

Articles

Aesthetic vs. artistic value. Determining the difference with respect to a cinematic work of art

Vlastimil Zuska

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):1-18  

The study analyses the process of perceiving a work of art from the perspective of aesthetic experience and the transcendence of the perceiver. The general aesthetic focus of the text is based on arguments from the cinema of Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, etc.

The Beginnings of Czech Film and Legislation

Karel Litsch

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):19-29  

The study by legal historian Karel Litsch examines the legal framework of cinematography in the Bohemian lands from the beginnings of film to the 1920s.

Older Czech Sociology and Film Issues

Emanuel Pecka

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):30-42  

The author traces the interest of older Czech sociology in the phenomenon of film as written about by Bedřich Václavek, Willy Haas, Otto Rádl, A. M. Brousil, Emanuel Chalupný and Inocenc Arnošt Bláha.

Film as a historical source (Introduction to Mark Ferro's article)

Petr Mareš

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):43-46  

The article recapitulates the gradual process of acceptance of film as a historical source by the historical community. It forms the preface to Mark Ferro's study "The Study of Stalinist Ideology through Film - Chapayev (1934)".

A Study of Stalinist Ideology through Film - Chapayev (1934)

Marc Ferro

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):47-64  

By analysing the Soviet film Chapayev (1934) and focusing on specific manifestations of ideological assumptions in the image of the legendary commander, one of the leading representatives of the Annales school of French historiography shows what possibilities film as a historical source offers the historian. Translation of the study "The Fiction Film and Historical Analysis" from The Historian and Film (ed. P. I. Smith, Cambridge 1976). Translated by Petr Mareš.

Edition

Film on the radio

Ivan Klimeš

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):65-70  

The article is an introduction to a series of lectures on film given on Czechoslovak radio in the 1920s and 1930s, with brief profiles of the authors of the lectures.

There's talk of a film

Otto Rádl

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):71-76  

Radio lecture by the leading film critic Otto Rádl, broadcast under the title "Looking at Film" on the Prague station as a programme of the Workers' Radio on 16 August 1931.

On Artistic Film

Vladislav Vančura

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):76-78  

Radio lecture by the writer, playwright and aspiring director Vladislav Vančura broadcast under the title "My Experience with Film" on the Prague station on 3 November 1932.

Film and the Worker

Oktáv Mikan

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):79-80  

Radio lecture by the editor Oktáv Mikan, secretary of the Central Workers' School, broadcast under the title "Film and the Workers" on the Prague station as a programme of the Workers' Radio on 15 April 1933.

Theatre and Film

Václav Tille

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):81-83  

Radio lecture by the literary historian and professor of comparative studies Václav Tille broadcast on the Prague station on 14 May 1934.

Newsreels

Jan Kučera

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):83-88  

Radio lecture by film critic, theoretician and filmmaker Jan Kučera, broadcast under the title "How to make film journals" on the Prague station on 11 September 1935.

Reviews

Testimony of Jan Calábek, pioneer of Czechoslovak scientific film

Eva Strusková

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):93-97  

A book review by an important representative of Czechoslovak scientific film. Jan Calábek: The emergence and development of scientific cinema in Brno. Prague: Academia 1989.

The Čapek Brothers and Film

Jan Lukeš

Iluminace 1990, 2(1):98-102  

Review of the book edition of the film scripts by the Čapek brothers. Karel and Josef Čapek: Film librettos. Prague: Odeon 1989.