Iluminace, 2014 (vol. 26), issue 4

Editorial

Screenwriting: theory, history, practice

Petr Szczepanik

Iluminace 2014, 26(4):5-7  

An editorial to a thematically focused block of articles devoted to the history and theory of screenwriting.

Theme Articles

Screenplay - Verbal Text and Anticipation of a Film

Petr Mareš

Iluminace 2014, 26(4):9-30  

An analysis of a probe into the style of the script in Czech film of the 1950s-1980s. Although the study is limited by a small and arbitrarily assembled sample, it is evident that serial textual analysis of Czech screenplays can provide crucial insights into the transformations of genre-specific elements such as verbal evocation of visual characteristics, linguistic devices that have no cinematic equivalent, or anticipation of the film recipient's perspective. The author suggests that the frequency and function of these elements have changed in distinct historical stages, and thus we can speak of a specific history of the style of the Czech screenplay,...

"We are not HBO, We are Television". An Etnographic Analysis of the Group Writing of the Series The First Republic

Eva Pjajčíková, Petr Szczepanik

Iluminace 2014, 26(4):31-55  

The study of group writing and the value horizons of the actors involved in the production process of The First Republic draws on the methodology of production studies and the ethnography of cultural production, particularly inspired by Georgina Born's pioneering work on BBC production culture. Drawing on long-term participant observation and semi-structured interviews with the main creators, the authors show how and why the original scriptwriter's vision of a gritty realistic story was gradually transformed into a compromised public service version of a soap opera set against a historical backdrop, building on the success of the series Narrate, with...

How to Make Something Ordinary from the Unusual. Production of Credibility in the Series Plus Belle La Vie

Muriel Mille

Iluminace 2014, 26(4):57-76  

Through interviews and ethnographic observation, the study reveals the operations of creating and evaluating the so-called real effect in the process of writing and filming the television series Plus Belle La Vie.

"Technical Screenplay" and Sovietization of Czechoslovak Film Production, (1945-1954)

Jan Černík

Iluminace 2014, 26(4):77-93  

In his study, the author examines how the Soviet norms of technical (or director's) scripts, which were introduced in a directive manner, influenced the practice of development and implementation of projects in Czech film after the Second World War. The study illustrates the possibilities of research based on the analysis of a broad sample of primary documents, i.e. scripts from the collections of the National Film Archive, which are set in an institutional and political context. The juxtaposition of these two perspectives allows the author to reveal the differences between directives and real practice, to explain why Soviet norms were not adopted...

Editions and Materials

Clark between Hockey Boards. Memorandum by J. A. Palouš, 1922 (Report on the Development of the Cinematographic Department)

Ivan Klimeš

Iluminace 2014, 26(4):95-97  

The thematic introduction to the following Memorandum of J. A. Palouš recalls the circumstances of the creation of the document and interesting facts about the personality of Jan Arnold Palouš.

Memorandum by J. A. Palouš, 1922 (Report on the Development of the Cinema Department)

Jan Arnold Palouš

Iluminace 2014, 26(4):98-104  

Report on the work of Jan Arnold Palouš as film officer at the Ministry of Education and National Enlightenment in 1919-1922.

Horizon

Czechs and their Normalisation (Paulina Bren, Zelinář a jeho televize. Kultura komunismu po pražském jaru 1968)

Martin Šrajer

Iluminace 2014, 26(4):105-113  

Paulina Brenová's review of Zelinář and his television: the culture of communism after the Prague Spring 1968..

The Fourth Annual Screen Industries in East-Central Europe Conference (Screen Industries in East-Central Europe IV: Industry of Prestige)

Łukasz Biskupski, Michał Pabiś-Orzeszyna

Iluminace 2014, 26(4):114-118  

Report of the 4th annual conference Screen Industries in East-Central Europe, held in Olomouc, 28-29 November 2014. The theme of the conference was film prestige or symbolic capital, which is a fundamental element of the functioning of the contemporary film industry.

Student report from the conference (Screen Industries in East-Central Europe IV: Industry of Prestige)

Barbora Ligasová

Iluminace 2014, 26(4):119-121  

Report of the 4th annual conference Screen Industries in East-Central Europe, held in Olomouc, 28-29 November 2014. The theme of the conference was film prestige or symbolic capital, which is a fundamental element of the functioning of the contemporary film industry.

Ad Fontes

Josef Kamil Horák and Czech Cinema

Jiří Novotný

Iluminace 2014, 26(4):122-126  

Biography and film activities of Josef Kamil Horák, who in 1938 was sentenced to 30 years of hard labour for the murder of his wife.

Association of Premier Cinemas in Czechoslovakia (1931-1938)

Petr Hasan

Iluminace 2014, 26(4):127-129  

Information about the founding, operation and importance of the Association of Premier Biographers in the Czechoslovak Republic in 1931-1938.

Appendix

"Art" in Slovak Cinemas from the Separation of the Slovak Republic to the Present Day

Eva Križková

Iluminace 2014, 26(4):130-132  

The topic and content of the dissertation "Art" in Slovak cinemas from the independence of the Slovak Republic to the present.