Iluminace, 2013 (vol. 25), issue 4
Theme Articles
National Cinema in a Transnational Context. A Central European Experience
Ivan Klimeš
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):27-39
The study focuses on the birth of national cinema in Central Europe, which has a multinational character.
Central European Accents. The Homelessness of Gustav Machatý and Karel Lamač
Kevin B. Johnson
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):41-61
The article deals with the careers of Gustav Machatý and Karel Lamač, with an emphasis on their status as cosmopolitan filmmakers.
Alain Robbe-Grillet in Slovakia. Transnational Encounters and the Art of the Co-Production
Jonathan L. Owen
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):63-77
An essay on the production of two Czech-French co-productions directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet: The Man Who Lies (1968) and Eden and After (1970).
Between the Center and the Margin. The Notion of Central Europe in Slovak Cinema after 1989
Jana Dudková
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):79-94
The article analyses some typical ways of expressing Slovak identity in the Slovak cinema of the last quarter of a century.
Articles
Masters and Workers of National Culture. The Image of the Artist in the Czech Feature Films in the Years After February 1948
Alena Šlingerová
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):5-22
The study focuses on the characters of artists in Czech feature films from 1948 - 1956. In the first part of the study, the author outlines ideological formulas extracted from cultural and political texts of the immediate post-revolutionary period, on the basis of which the purposiveness of the selected film types becomes clearer.
Interviews
Why Look Around Today? An Interview with Marita Sturken
Andrea Průchová
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):95-99
An interview with Marita Sturken, a cultural historian, film historian and theorist, publicist, professor and department head at New York University in the USA, who specializes in visual culture studies.
Horizon
Catholic Specifity as a the Basis for Reinterpretation. (Eva Vženteková, Diptych Štefana Uhra – Organ a Tri dcéry)
Jaromír Blažejovský
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):118-121
Review of Eva Vženteková's publication Diptych of Štefana Uhra – Organ and Three Daughters.
About the Ephemerality of the Audiovisual Media and Paratexts (Paul Grainge /ed./, Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube)
Jan Švelch
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):122-125
Review of the publication Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube.
Looking for a Textuality of Film (John A. Bateman - Matthis Kepser - Markus Kuhn /eds./, Film, Text, Kultur. Beiträge zur Textualität des Films)
Petr Mareš
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):126-130
Review of the publication Film, Text, Kultur: beiträge zur Textualität des Films.
Media Between Historical Research and Practical Applications
Jan Hanzlík, Kateřina Svatoňová
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):131-135
Report from the conference Media Art Histories: RENEW, held in Riga, 8-11 November 2013.
Student Report from a Conference (Screen Industries in East-Central Europe III: Industrial Authorship)
Eliška Malečková
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):136-139
Report of the international conference Screen Industries in East-Central Europe III: Industrial Authorship, held in Olomouc from 29 November to 1 December 2013.
Film Industry Voices
New Era of Dramaturgy in Czech Cinema? The Second Year of the Film Center of Czech Television. An Interview with Jaroslav Sedláček
Petr Bilík
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):101-107
An interview with film publicist and television dramaturge Jaroslav Sedláček about the Film Centre of the Czech Television and the script review.
Ad Fontes
Bavaria Filmkunst GmbH (Prague Office) 1938-1958
Petr Hasan
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):112-114
Information about the establishment and activities of the Prague office of the German film company Bavaria Filmkunst GmbH in 1938-1958.
Emil Kubiš (30. October 1924 - 16. June 2007)
Jiří Horníček
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):115-117
The article maps in detail the life and work of the Brno cinematographer from Brno Emil Kubiš and presents an overview of his films in the collections of the National Film Archive.
NFA's 70th Anniversary
Overview of the Institutional Development and Terms of Office of Film Archive Managers from 1943 to 2013
Jan Trnka
Iluminace 2013, 25(4):109-111
The table contains partial stages of the organisational and institutional development of the film archive in the Czech lands, including the length of the terms of office of the individual heads of the institution in the years 1943 - 2013. In the introduction there is a commentary on the table.