Iluminace, 2004 (vol. 16), issue 1


Articles

Historians and the Film, Filmmakers and History. Where Two Disciplines Meet and Overlap

Mária Ferenčuhová

Iluminace 2004, 16(1):5-19  

The study examines the relationship of historians to fiction and documentary films and the relationship of filmmakers to history.

Aestetic Historicism. Historical Knowledge of the Holocaust in the Film

Zdeněk Hudec

Iluminace 2004, 16(1):21-41  

An analysis of the relationship between the historical facts of the Holocaust and its cinematic treatment.

Future of the Past. Film and the Beginnings of Postmodern History

Robert A. Rosenstone

Iluminace 2004, 16(1):43-59  

A study of the approach of film historians and theorists to the capture, representation and treatment of modern history. Postmodern Historiography.

History without the Past. Film and the Construction of Historical Time

Michèle Pauline Lagny

Iluminace 2004, 16(1):61-83  

The study examines the ability of film to testify to the complexity of history writing, and draws on an examination of film examples to assess how film writing can also be history writing.

Editions and Materials

Treuhänder's Function in Protectorate Cinematography

Tereza Dvořáková

Iluminace 2004, 16(1):111-113  

The introduction to the following documents defines the concept of the treuhänder and defines its function, rights and duties in the period of the advancing arization of Protectorate cinema.

Laws and Obligations of Treuhänder

Tereza Dvořáková

Iluminace 2004, 16(1):115-125  

It contains the full text of the following documents issued in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia between 1939 and 1941: the Rights and Duties of the Treuhänder, the Appointment Decree of Gustav John, instructions for cinema managers, an invitation to send a list of films, and the appointment of a trustee and a managing director.

Interviews

History, Film Historian, and Inventing of Captive Archives. An Interview with Michèle Lagny

Petr Szczepanik

Iluminace 2004, 16(1):85-95  

An interview with Professor Michèle Pauline Lagny, who teaches film and cultural history at the University of Paris and leads research projects on film and cinema from a historical perspective.

Beefsteak and Glasses or Positif on the Inside. An Interview with Petr Král

Milan D. Klepikov

Iluminace 2004, 16(1):97-110  

An interview with Czech poet, essayist, translator, film historian and journalist Petr Kral about his work in the prestigious French magazine Positif.

Horizon

Authoritative Regime of Narration (Some Notes on Rhetoric of Non-fiction Films)

Mária Ferenčuhová, Peter Michalovič

Iluminace 2004, 16(1):127-132  

A reflection on the way in which argumentation and persuasiveness are built in documentaries and educational films, but also in current affairs and journalistic films, and how authors try to get the "truth" on their side.

New German Publications About Photographic Evidences of Nazi Crimes  (Cornelie Brink, Ikonen der Vernichtung. Öffentlicher Gebrauch von Fotografienvaus nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern nach 1945), (Cornelie Brink, ,,Auschwitz in der Paulskirche". Erinnerungspolitik in Fotoaustellungen der sechziger Jahre), (Habbo Knoch, Die Tat als Bild. Fotografien des Holocaust in der deutschen Erinnerungskultur), (Klaus Hesse - Philipp Springer, Vor aller Augen. Fotodokumente des nationalsozialistischen Terrors in der Provinz)

Pavel Zeman

Iluminace 2004, 16(1):133-142  

A commemoration of major photographic exhibitions focused on mapping the crimes of World War II and the Holocaust and the public perception of these events. An analysis of several studies devoted to the subject and published in Germany between 1998 and 2001.