Iluminace, 2009 (vol. 21), issue 1
Editorial
Film in the era of visual studies
Petra Hanáková, Václav Hájek
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):37-39 
The introduction to the block of articles on the topic of film in the age of visual studies introduces the issue, reflects on the shift in the perception of visual studies in the last ten years and briefly characterizes the individual contributions.
Theme Articles
Visual Culture Questionnaire from the October magazine
přeložila Petra Hanáková
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):40-52
The survey was printed in 1996 in October magazine and is now considered a milestone in the approach to visual studies.
How we exchange glances with images: The Image as the Matter of the Body
Hans Belting
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):53-67
The author asks the question whether we look at images or whether images are only realised in our gaze. Is the image a traditional object of observation or is it rather an act of our body? The author develops a theory of the trinity of image, medium and body. Visual culture is then not a collection of artifacts, but rather a sequence of repeating and changing events.
Many Faces of Visual Studies
Marta Filipová
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):68-80
The article maps the institutionalization of visual studies and its various forms.
Vision Has No History
Ladislav Kesner
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):81-98
The author examines the question of the historicity of perceptual regimes. He reminds that a schematic understanding of this historicity is very problematic and proposes new possibilities of modes of perception.
"Stains Appear Easily, but How Can They Be Removed?" The Stain: Inducing Phobia and Delight in Visual Culture
Václav Hájek
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):99-117
The author observes the stain as an ambiguous visual product to which contrasting spectatorial attitudes of expectation and fear are attached.
Articles
Ghetto Theresienstadt 1942: The Message of the Film Fragments
Eva Strusková
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):5-36
A review of studies on the filming of Jews during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Preserved and unpreserved films. Unrealised script of the film reportage Ghetto Theresienstadt. Filming and content of the film Theresienstadt 1942. Personality of Irena Dodalová and her activities in Terezín. Journeys of Terezín film materials to archives. Description of the Prague cuttings held by the National Film Archive. Their comparison with the Warsaw cuttings.
Interviews
Vizual Archive and History as an Artifact. An Interview with Arnold Dreyblatt
Lenka Dolanová
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):119-122
Visual artist Arnold Dreyblatt talks about his artistic concept, in which he focuses on the theme of archive and memory and their spatial metaphors.
Horizon
Dialogues with Ivan Passer and the History of Cinema (Jiří Voráč, Ivan Passer: Filmový vypravěč rozmanitostí aneb od Intimního osvětlení k Nomádovi)
Petr Bilík
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):131-134
Review of Ivan Passer: film narrator of diversity or from Intimate Lighting to Nomad.
Kristin, David and the Man Who Wasn't There
Milan D. Klepikov
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):135-148
Review of Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell's A history of film. A survey of world cinema.
Story of the Photography
Vivarium in Paris's Botanical Gardens
Ondřej Váša
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):129-130
A reflection on the experience of the aesthetician Georges Didi-Huberman, which he acquired in front of one of the vivariums of the Botanical Garden in Paris and elaborated in his essay "The Paradox of the Locust". The article thus illustrates Didi-Huberman's conception of image and representation.
Ad Fontes
Bio u Vejvodů (1911–1930/1946/)
Marcela Týfová
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):123-125
The article maps the existence and activity of the Bio u Vejvodů in the years 1911–1946.
Host a.s. (/1920/1932 – 1946/1949/)
Marcela Týfová
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):126-128
History and information about the activities of the film company Host a.s. in 1920–1949.
Appendix
Pražský ilustrovaný kurýr: Mass Press as an Image World of Ordinary People
Jakub Machek
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):149-153
A short introduction to the development of popular culture in the Czech lands at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and to the origins, content and focus of the political pictorial newspaper Prague Illustrated Courier, which is the main topic of the author's dissertation.
On the Road from Television Song to the Music Video as a Marketing Tool: The Music Video Format in Czechoslovakia, 1954-1989
Viktor Palák
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):154-158
Dissertation report , the primary aim of which is to present the history of the video clip and the specific formats that preceded it in socialist Czechoslovakia.
Palace Cinemas Multiplex in Nový Smíchov: Programme, Space, Media Discourse
Jan Hanzlík
Iluminace 2009, 21(1):159-161
The author presents the topic of his dissertation and the subject of his research, which is specifically the Palace Cinemas multiplex located in the Nový Smíchov shopping centre.