Iluminace, 1992 (vol. 4), issue 1


Readings in Methodology

Michal Bregant

Iluminace 1992, 4(1):99-102  

A review of Movies and Methods, an anthology of film theory compiled by Bill Nichols.

Martin Esslin: The Age of Television

Jan Uhde

Iluminace 1992, 4(1):102-104  

A review of an important work in the field of television theory.

Animation film artists

Jana Hádková

Iluminace 1992, 4(1):105-107  

A review of a semi-memoir about Czech animation artists by an author who has worked as a dramaturg in the field for many years.

Testimony of the sound engineer

Ivan Klimeš

Iluminace 1992, 4(1):107-109  

Review of Miroslav Hůrka's book When you say sound film... about the history of Czech film from the perspective of a long-time sound engineer at the Barrandov Film Studio.

Articles

On the problem of colourisation of films

Jan Uhde

Iluminace 1992, 4(1):3-15  

On the colorization of films in terms of film development, colorization techniques, commercial exploitation and copyright.

Ricciotto Canudo

Přemysl Maydl

Iluminace 1992, 4(1):17-18  

The article presents the life and work of Riccotto Canudo, an Italian pioneer of film theory and aesthetics based in France.

The Theory of the Seven Arts

Ricciotto Canudo

Iluminace 1992, 4(1):19-21  

The classic study of film as an art of total synthesis presents the theory of the seven arts. Translated by Přemysl Maydl.

Francesco Casetti

Přemysl Maydl

Iluminace 1992, 4(1):23-24  

Portrait of a leading figure in Italian film theory and criticism.

Epistemological Intersections in Postwar Film Theories

Francesco Casetti

Iluminace 1992, 4(1):25-35  

This study examines the development of Western film theory after the Second World War. Translated by Přemysl Maydl.

Theresienstadt - a film about the "model ghetto"

Helena Krejčová

Iluminace 1992, 4(1):37-55  

About Nazi propaganda films presenting life in the Terezín ghetto.

The Long Journey of Alfred Radok (part two). In the Light of the Play on Love and Death

Jiří Cieslar

Iluminace 1992, 4(1):57-71  

The continuation of the author's study of Alfréd Radok's film Far Away compares the film with Radok's important theatre production of Romain Rolland's Games of Love and Death at the Prague Chamber Theatre (1964).

Edition

Causa The Shaft of Buried Ideas

Eva Strusková

Iluminace 1992, 4(1):73-85  

About the unpreserved Czech film The Shaft of Buried Ideas, in which the censors found that it encouraged riots.