Iluminace, 2000 (vol. 12), issue 2


Articles

Film and the Theory of Intertextuality

Michail Jampolskij

Iluminace 2000, 12(2):5-40  

Iconography and iconology as a textual element of film - examples from film history. Symbols as iconographic forms. Anagrams and their methodological significance in the theory of intertextuality. Types of anagrams. Text, subtext, script and hieroglyph, book, quotation and signboard as motif and symbolic element. The principle of the “third text”, multiplied plots, “game-within-a-game”.

Pit of buried Ideas: A History of Film

Eva Strusková

Iluminace 2000, 12(2):41-71  

The article recapitulates the history of the lost and found film The Shaft of Buried Hopes from 1921 and its film-critical and historical reflection, presents the surviving form of the work and adds information about its creators.

Zabriskie Point

Oliver Bakoš

Iluminace 2000, 12(2):73-83  

An analysis of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1970 film Zabriskie Point in the context of the director's entire oeuvre. The main characters of the film, their characteristics and actions.

Sounds Beguiling: Franz Hofer's Weihnachtsglocken and the Transformations of Music Genres in Early German Cinema

Thomas Elsaesser

Iluminace 2000, 12(2):85-100  

Paper presented at the 5th International Filmology Conference held in Udine from 26 to 28 March 1998 under the title The Birth of Film Genres.

Editions and Materials

Lights and Shadows of Zlín Cinema

Antonín Horák

Iluminace 2000, 12(2):121-140  

Antonín Horák, a cinematographer and director of animated and trick films, recalls the founding of the Zlín film studio, its development in 1932-1940, its production of commercial commissioned films for industry and several feature films, and his former collaborators. The article is supplemented by the author's biofilmography.

Interviews

Film Cinemas Histories Archieves Researches. An Interview with Thomas Elsaesser

Christa Blümlinger

Iluminace 2000, 12(2):101-119  

An interview with film theorist, historian, film scholar and journalist Thomas Elsaesser, currently professor of film studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Horizon

The Defence of Writing Which Write Images

Peter Michalovič

Iluminace 2000, 12(2):147-149  

The article is a response to Josef Moucha's contribution, which responded to the author's original study on the textualization of the image.

"Who the Hell is Tony Clifton?" (Man of the Moon as an Apex of Forman's Career)

Karel Thein

Iluminace 2000, 12(2):150-152  

A review of Forman's latest film, Man on the Moon, and an analysis of it in the context of Forman's other work.

The Prompt and the Hindsight (Ivo Pondělíček: Svět k obrazu svému)

Jan Svoboda

Iluminace 2000, 12(2):158-160  

Review of the author's selection of Ivo Pondělíček's studies The World in Its Own Image. Contributions to Film Consciousness and Video Culture 1962 -1998.

Double-view

Between the Nostalgia and the Absurdity: A view

Miroslav Marcelli

Iluminace 2000, 12(2):141-143  

A review and analysis of Andrei Tarkovsky's first film made in the West - Nostalgia.

Nostalgia in the time of exile

Miroslav Petříček

Iluminace 2000, 12(2):144-146  

A review and analysis of Andrei Tarkovsky's first film made in the West - Nostalgia.