Iluminace, 2010 (vol. 22), issue 4

Film and Sociology

Karel Čada, Jan Hanzlík

Iluminace 2010, 22(4):71-72  

Introduction to the following block of articles on Film and Sociology. Basic introduction to the topic and brief characteristics of the individual contributions.

The Limits of Art: high culture in Hollywood

Shyon Baumann

Iluminace 2010, 22(4):73-89  

This translation of the first chapter of Canadian cultural sociologist Shyon Baumann's Hollywood Highbrow : from Entertainment to Art focuses on how Hollywood film came to be perceived as art due to social change. The text analyses the socially constructed nature of the criteria that determine what is and what is not a work of art in the field of film.

Empirical Sociology of Film in Czechoslovakia until 1989

Tomáš Čížek

Iluminace 2010, 22(4):91-105  

The author briefly introduces the history of Czech and Slovak sociology of film and provides an overview of empirical sociological research in the Czech lands and Slovakia until 1989.

Czech Cinemagoer: A Sociological Characterization Based on Quantitative Surveys

Martin Vávra, Tomáš Čížek, Ondřej Špaček

Iluminace 2010, 22(4):107-125  

The article analyses current large sociological surveys in an attempt to answer the question of who in the Czech population visits cinemas and with what frequency. The authors of the study work at the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences.

Etnography of Spectators' Lived Experiences in a Small-Town Cinema

Robert Bargel

Iluminace 2010, 22(4):127-149  

The thesis is an ethnographic case study, dealing with how cinema in a small town is perceived by its audience and what meanings they ascribe to it. The author chose the cinema in Řevnice near Prague as the object of his research, which represents other historical local cinemas in its appearance, spatial arrangement and its local situation.

A surveyor with a movie camera. The role of visual media in shaping the awareness of geographical conditions in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s

Lucie Česálková

Iluminace 2010, 22(4):5-19  

A study of the creation of the Czechoslovakia State Film Documentation Project and its goals to promote improvements in the country's infrastructure and to encourage cities and counties to develop functional public service structures. The importance of the project in the tourism industry and many other sectors of the Czechoslovak economy during the depression of 1929-1941. The foreign policy circumstances surrounding the involvement of the Ministry of National Defence. Subsidies and state support for the production of promotional, natural history and geographical films between 1935-1940.

Czech Television as a Film Producer in 1992-2002 (Part 1)

Pavel Krumpár

Iluminace 2010, 22(4):21-69  

The paper recalls the role of Czech Television as a producer, involved in the production of 128 feature films between 1992 and 2002 (an average of 11 films per year), and at the same time seeks to answer the question of what strategy the Czech Television chose to support Czech cinema and how this strategy corresponded with the mission and duty of the public media. Among other things, the text also presents the powers and responsibilities for film production within the organisational structure of the Czech Television, the status and changes in the structure of the producer groups of the Producers' Centre for Artistic Programmes in 1992-2002, a thematic...

Attempting to Employ an Interdisciplinary Approach in Film Studies: Interview with Ivo Pondělíček

Jan Hanzlík, Zdeněk Hudec

Iluminace 2010, 22(4):151-159  

An interview with psychologist and film theorist Ivo Pondělíček about his research activities at the Film Institute in 1968-1972.

A Critique of Bad Society through Film (and Lacan) (Bülent Diken - Carsten Bagge Laustsen, Sociology through the Projector)

Anna Kopecká

Iluminace 2010, 22(4):163-166  

Review of Sociology through the Projector by Danish authors Bülent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen.

Where Good Girls Look, or Critique of Antipornographic Criticism (Kateřina Lišková: Hodné holky se dívají jinam. Feminismus a pornografie)

Karel Čada

Iluminace 2010, 22(4):167-171  

Review of Kateřina Lišková's publication, Good girls look the other way: feminism and pornography.

Recycling New Media Research (Tomáš Dvořák: Sběrné suroviny. Texty, obrazy a zvuky nedávné minulosti)

Lucie Česálková

Iluminace 2010, 22(4):172-175  

Review of the publication by historian Tomáš Dvořák, Collecting raw materials. Texts, images and sounds of the recent past.

Will She Burn? Will She Not? On a Collective Monograph on Marketa Lazarová (Petr Gajdošík /ed./: Marketa Lazarová. Studie a dokumenty)

Briana Čechová

Iluminace 2010, 22(4):176-181  

Review of the publication Marketa Lazarová. Studies and documents.

Elekta, a.s. (/1922/ 1928 – 1945 /1955/)

Jindřich Schwippel, Tomáš Lachman

Iluminace 2010, 22(4):160-162  

Establishment, history, development and subject of Elekta's activities between 1922 and 1955.

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Lights! Kamera! Azione! Practices, Sites and Careers in European Film Production

Dorota Ostrowska, Petr Szczepanik, Patrick Vonderau

Iluminace 2010, 22(4):182-184  

Information about the international study Lights! Camera! Azione! and the main questions it addresses. The project will be published in book form in 2012.