Iluminace, 2011 (vol. 23), issue 4
Editorial
Editorial
Tereza Hadravová
Iluminace 2011, 23(4):39-41 
Introduction to the following series of articles on the relationship between film and neuroaesthetics. Basic overview of the issues and the main ideas of each contribution.
Theme Articles
Illusionary Perception and Cinema. Experimental Thoughts on Film Theory and Neuroscience
Patricia Pisters
Iluminace 2011, 23(4):43-58
In her study, the author deals with the effect of film on the viewer, especially how the meanings of a cinematic work enter one's consciousness. She uses definition and attention to revise M´nsterberg's analysis of film detail as an embodiment of attention. As concrete examples, she analyses the films The Illusionist and The Prestige. In line with M´nsterberg, the author considers film - both its formal devices and the behaviour of individual characters - as a mirror of the viewer's own mental processes. Unlike M´nstenberg, however, she describes these operations with the tools of contemporary science, not psychology.
"The Pit of Naturalism". Neuroscience and the Naturalized Aesthetics of Film
Murray Smith
Iluminace 2011, 23(4):59-79
The English-language study focuses on the direct impact of film on the viewer, e.g. shock and immediate empathy. The author identifies a possible intersection of neuroscientific research and film theory in such affective reactions of the audience, which are triggered automatically and immediately.
On Icarus' Wings. The Cinematic Experience of Falling Bodies
Adriano D'Aloia
Iluminace 2011, 23(4):81-97
The English-language study addresses the apparent paradox created by the viewer's experience of the cinematic representation of a body in free fall: although the final impact is almost never shown on screen, the viewer emotionally experiences the fall as if it had been completed. According to the author, the viewer's reaction can be understood against the background of psychological and neuroscientific research on the perception of goal-directed action.
Articles
Careers of Script Supervisors. The Labor Market, Labor Process and Construction of Gender in the Czech Film and Television Industry
Jan Hanzlík
Iluminace 2011, 23(4):5-37
The article presents the results of ethnomethodological research focused on the profession of script supervisors in the process of film and television production. The paper seeks to show how the employment of female script supervisors differs in studio and project production systems, what are the distinguishing traits of this work, and how gender distinctions are constructed in the film and television industry. In addition to the historical and theoretical context, the paper reports on the methodology, sampling, data collection, how the respondents came to work in film and television, as well as how they obtained other employment opportunities, the...
Editions and Materials
Planeta Cinemateca. Print of Film Archivist
Ivan Klimeš
Iluminace 2011, 23(4):108-111
Biography of film archivist, long-time director of the National Film Archive and vice-president of FIAF Vladimír Opěla with a detailed analysis of all his professional activities.
Dossier of Foreign Responses
Patrick Loughney, Christian Dimitriu, Jan-Christopher Horak, Claudia Dillmann, Nikolaus Wostry, David Francis
Iluminace 2011, 23(4):112-120
Reactions of prominent representatives of the foreign film archival community to the controversial dismissal of Vladimír Opěla as director of the National Film Archive. The texts illustrate various aspects of the perception of Opěla's legacy by the international archivist society and at the same time illustrate the professional values of this particular community.
Interviews
Technology Will Not Solve Any Problems. Interview with József Fiser and Donald Katz
Tereza Hadravová
Iluminace 2011, 23(4):99-107
Interview with American scientists József Fiser and Donald Katz about neuroscience research, research on human perception in laboratory conditions, experiments with vision and the sense of smell, the use of moving images and its impact on changes in visual science.
Horizon
Anatomy of Film Spectatorship (Torben Grodal, Embodied Visions. Evolution, Emotion, Culture, and Film)
Antonín Policar
Iluminace 2011, 23(4):129-134
Review of Torben Grodal's publication Embodied Visions. Evolution, Emotion, Culture, and Film.
Desire to Write a Biography (Jiří Horníček, Gustav Machatý. Touha dělat film. Osobnost režiséra na pozadí dějin kinematografie)
Anna Batistová
Iluminace 2011, 23(4):135-139
Review of Jiří Horníček's publication Gustav Machatý. Touha dělat film. Osobnost režiséra na pozadí dějin kinematografie.
Strengths, Limitations, Opportunities and Threats of New Research Agenda (Screen Industries in East-Central Europe Conference, Brno 2011)
Balázs Varga
Iluminace 2011, 23(4):140-143
Information in English about the course and content of the Screen Industries in East-Central Europe Conference held in 2011 in Brno.
Ad Fontes
Film Technical College in Čimelice (1950-1982)
Kateřina Lachmanová
Iluminace 2011, 23(4):121-125
The origin and history of the Film Technical College, or until 1959 the Higher Film School in Čimelice. The studies, their composition, methodology, teachers, life in boarding school conditions, perception of the times, etc. in the memories of former students. Information about the project of collecting structured interviews with graduates of this school. As part of the first stage, 21 interviews with graduates from 1950-1960 were recorded.
Filmová skupina Praha (1929-1943)
Marcela Týfová
Iluminace 2011, 23(4):126-128
History of the company Filmová skupina Praha in 1929-1943, its production activities and cooperation with Ocean-Film.
Appendix
cinapses: thinking|film - Film, Philosophy and Neuroscience
Bernd Herzogenrath
Iluminace 2011, 23(4):144-148
Information about the project: cinapses: thinking|film - Film, Philosophy and Neuroscience, which is taking place at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.