Iluminace, 2013 (vol. 25), issue 3


Theme Articles

Looking for New Aesthetic Models through Italian-Yugoslavian Film Co-Productions: Lowbrow Neorealism in Sand, Love and Salt

Francesco Di Chiara

Iluminace 2013, 25(3):37-49  

The article shows how the post-war co-production between Yugoslavia and Italy contributed to the professionalisation of the Yugoslav film industry. Using the example of František Čap's film Sand, Love and Salt, the author shows a new perspective on the transformation of Italian neorealism into a popular genre.

USSR and East-central European countries at the Venice international film festival (1946-1953)

Stefano Pisu

Iluminace 2013, 25(3):51-63  

The author reveals the hitherto unexplored historical relations between the cinemas of the former socialist bloc countries and the countries of the West. He examines the presence and absence of the Soviet Union and the countries in its sphere of influence at the Venice Film Festival in 1946-1953.

A Wonderful Friendship? Relations between Film and Television Production in the GDR

Thomas Beutelschmidt

Iluminace 2013, 25(3):65-72  

The article outlines the relations between film and television production in the GDR.

How Many Steps to the Shooting Script? A Political History of Screenwriting

Petr Szczepanik

Iluminace 2013, 25(3):73-98  

The article focuses on the development of screenwriting practices and conventions in Czechoslovakia after 1945 from the perspective of political history.

Articles

"Case". The Context of the Release of the Party and the Guests

Jan Bernard

Iluminace 2013, 25(3):5-34  

This extensive study examines in detail the two-year journey of Jan Němec and Ester Krumbachová's film On Festivity and Guests to the cinema screen, while analysing the overall cultural and political background of Czechoslovak society in the second half of the 1960s.

Interviews

On the Ethnography of Media Production. An Interview with Georgina Born

Petr Szczepanik

Iluminace 2013, 25(3):99-119  

An interview with British anthropologist and media ethnographer Georgina Born about her ethnographic method.

Horizon

They Frame Films Again (Julia Noordegraaf - Cosetta G. Saba - Barbara Le Maître - Vinzenz Hediger /eds./, Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art)

Matěj Strnad

Iluminace 2013, 25(3):137-141  

Review of the publication Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art

Journeys of Don Quixote through the Epopee of Representation (Veronika Veberová - Petr A. Bílek - Vladimír Papoušek - David Skalický /eds./, Jazyky reprezentace)

Michal Kříž

Iluminace 2013, 25(3):142-146  

Review of the publication Languages of Representation

Film Industry Voices

How to Measure the Distribution

Přemysl Martinek

Iluminace 2013, 25(3):121-124  

The author summarises and analyses the current situation of film distribution on the Czech film market.

Ad Fontes

Association Filmové studio (1921) 1936-1940 (1943)

Lucie Hurtová

Iluminace 2013, 25(3):128-131  

Detailed information about the founding, activities and transformations of the Film Studio (FS) from 1934 to 1941, when the top public organization of the film industry in the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia called the Czech-Moravian Film Headquarters (ČMFÚ) was established.

Julien Duvivier - Updated View

Briana Čechová

Iluminace 2013, 25(3):132-136  

A biofilmography of Julien Duvivier, a detailed analysis of his work and a new look at it.

NFA's 70th Anniversary

Recono. Impregantes - Regenerates

Lucie Česálková

Iluminace 2013, 25(3):125-127  

The author uses the example of the Recono company to show that repairing film prints damaged by mechanical wear during projection and other atmospheric or chemical influences has been common since the 1920s.

Appendix

Infrastructure of Film Production in the Czech Lands before 1945

Michal Večeřa

Iluminace 2013, 25(3):147-151  

Main points and objectives of the dissertation Infrastructure of film production in the Czech lands before 1945.