Iluminace, 1992 (vol. 4), issue 2


Visionary of the electric age

Jan Bernard

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):97-100  

A review of the Czech edition of the classic work by leading media theorist Marshall McLuhan, How to Understand the Media.

Double memory

Michal Bregant

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):100-102  

A review of Jan Zábrana's diary entries The Whole Life, a collection by Emilie Lakomé consisting of statements by the poet and thinker Otokar Brezina.

Microdramaturgy of Documentary

Jana Hádková

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):102-104  

A review of a book by Slovak film publicist Pavol Branko on the expressive means of non-fiction film, published twenty years late for political reasons.

Study of film studies at FF UK in Prague

Jan Bernard

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):105-106  

A brief overview of the development of film studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.

Study of Film Science at the Faculty of Arts UP in Olomouc

František Bráblík

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):106-108  

A brief overview of the development of film studies at the Faculty of Arts in Olomouc.

Articles

Posthistory

Vilém Flusser

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):3-13  

A philosophical session on the theme of our rhythm, our images and our play in our lives and in film in general. Translated by Ivan Klimes.

Image as a metaphor for sound

Michal Bregant

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):15-30  

On visual evocation and the representation of sonority in silent film.

The Audiovisual Continuum in Fellini's Rehearsal of the Orchestra

Ivan Žáček

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):31-44  

A musical reading of Federico Fellini's film The Rehearsal of the Orchestra, with particular reference to the conflict between the authoritarian individualist and society.

Answers without questions

Jan Lukeš

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):45-55  

A look at Czech film production between 1990 and 1992 in the context of political changes in Czechoslovakia. The author loosely follows the article "Questions without answers" in Illuminaci No.1/89, where he focused on the pre-Lisbon film production.

Edition

From the beginning of screenwriting in the Czech lands

Ivan Klimeš

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):57-64  

About the beginnings of screenwriting in the Czech lands and the interest in film among writers such as Otto Pick, Max Brod, Karel Matěj Čapek Chod and František Langer.

Florian's Happy Times

Otto Pick

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):65-68  

Unrealised film libretto which the author contributed to Kurt Pinthus' collection of film librettos Das Kinobuch (Leipzig, 1913).

A day in the life of Kühnebeck, the young idealist

Max Brod

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):68-70  

Unrealised film libretto, which the author contributed to a collection of film librettos organised by Kurt Pinthus, Das Kinobuch (Leipzig, 1913).

Exemplary waiter

František Langer

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):71-72  

Unrealised film libretto, which the author contributed to a collection of librettos organised by Kurt Pinthus, Das Kinobuch (Leipzig, 1913).

Bunny in the dressing room (Proposal for a film comedy)

František Langer

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):73-80  

Synopsis of an unrealised slapstick with the character of the American film comedian Bunny.

String from the weather

Karel Matěj Čapek Chod

Iluminace 1992, 4(2):81-94  

Unrealised film libretto, which the author adapted in 1914 from his novel The Gift of Saint Florian (1902).