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.