Iluminace, 2001 (vol. 13), issue 1
Articles
The Undergrowth of Enjoyment. How Popular Culture Can Serve as an Introduction to Lacan
Slavoj Žižek
Iluminace 2001, 13(1):5-22 
The article deals with the basic concepts of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory (the gaze and the voice as objects, the boundaries separating reality from the real) and their interpretation using examples from popular culture, especially film.
Encountering the Real
Tyson Leuchter
Iluminace 2001, 13(1):23-34
An analysis of Jan Švankmajer's 1982 short film The Possibilities of Dialogue, consisting of three parts: the Substantive Dialogue, the Passionate Dialogue and the Exhaustive Dialogue. The theoretical interpretation of the film is based on the ideas of two authors. They are Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Lacan. The Absence of Dialogue in Film, The Subject and The Real.
Kolja as a Symptom. Ideology, Phantasm and Nation in Jan Svěrák's Film
Anja Tippner
Iluminace 2001, 13(1):35-44
An analysis of Jan Svěrák's bitter comedy Kolya and its study from the psychoanalytic point of view of film ideology, the depiction of society and nation. Symptomatics of the film, motifs and symbols.
Les Cahiers du cinéma. Part II - First Issues, First Hassles
Antoine de Baeque
Iluminace 2001, 13(1):45-72
The article traces the history of French film theory and criticism in the period 1949-1959, its representatives and the founding of the journal Cahiers du cinéma in 1951.
John Ford"s Young Mr. Lincoln. The editors of Cahiers du cinéma
překlad Ilona Gottwaldová a Karel Thein
Iluminace 2001, 13(1):73-116
An analysis of John Ford's 1939 American biopic Young Lincoln and a study of the portrayal of a historical political figure, confronting fiction and reality. Translated from the French original (with consideration of the English translation): Young Mr. Lincoln de John Ford (Texte rédigé colletivment). "Cahiers du cinéma" 1970, no. 223 (August), pp. 29-47.
Editions and Materials
Soviet Approach to the Czechoslovak New Wave (An Introduction to the Document)
Jiří Hoppe
Iluminace 2001, 13(1):117-121
An analysis of the political situation in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, the arrival of the new wave of Czechoslovak film and the course of the reform movement in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The assessment of this situation by the political power of the time and the consequences - the occupation of Czechoslovakia. The article is an introduction to the following Soviet documentary on the New Wave.
Soviet Document on the New Wave
bez autora
Iluminace 2001, 13(1):122-139
An analysis of Czechoslovak cinema and Soviet-Czechoslovak relations in the field of film, sent by the Soviet Embassy in Prague to the headquarters in Moscow on 25 March 1968. The author is First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Prague V. Zhuravlev.
Horizon
Theory, Critism, or a Personal Strategy? (Some notes on the book about Derrida and the film)
Jan Kolář
Iluminace 2001, 13(1):147-153
Recenze publikace Petera Brunettea a Davida Willse: Screen/Play. Derrida a filmová teorie.
Double-view
Dance as Openig of the Worlds
Miroslav Marcelli
Iluminace 2001, 13(1):141-143
An analysis of the work of director Vincente Minnelli using his musical An American in Paris as an example.
An American in Pris or Reality in a Musical
Miroslav Petříček jr.
Iluminace 2001, 13(1):144-146
An analysis of Vincente Minnelli's musical An American in Paris.