Iluminace, 2017 (vol. 29), issue 2
Contemporary Czech Film Industry

Editorial

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Iluminace 2017, 29(2):5  

Thematic block dedicated to contemporary Czech cinema

Traditional and Convergent Domestic Audiences. Towards a Typology of the Transforming Czech Viewership of Films and TV Series

Jakub Macek

Iluminace 2017, 29(2):7-24 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1514  

This exploratory study draws upon data from a 2014 survey of the Czech adult population, focusing on differences between traditional and convergent domestic audiences of film and TV. Employing statistical methods of hierarchical cluster analysis and multinomial logistic regression, this empirical paper considers traditional and convergent modes of content consumption, various forms of the curation of content, the viewers' attitudes to content, socio-demographic variables, and culture in general. On this basis, an evidence-based typology of Czech domestic audiences is formulated, suggesting four types of film and TV viewers: traditional passive audiences,...

Czech Film Distribution 2007-2016. A Decade of Change

Aleš Danielis

Iluminace 2017, 29(2):25-63 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1515  

The study details the development of film distribution during the ten years marked by the shift from analogue to digital technology of projection. It extends a previous study by the author that described the period 1987-2006, covering the disintegration of state-owned film industry and its transformation to standard film distribution.The first part of the presented study describes the development of various means of dissemination of audiovisual contents with the aim to put classical distribution in the context of other forms of distribution and emphasize that in the course of history its role in the structure of the whole system of dissemination...

Financing of Czech Feature Films from the Perspective of Filmmakers

Eliška Pinďáková

Iluminace 2017, 29(2):65-83 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1516  

The article presents sources of financing of contemporary Czech feature films and explores how filmmakers evaluate these sources. It follows the study of film development of Czech feature films by Petr Szczepanik published in 2015 and extends it by analysis of all sources, including those that have not been previously mentioned, especially sponsorship and crowdfunding. Individual sources are evaluated according to their suitability for those filmmakers who focus on the production of art house films on the one hand and those who focus on the production of more commercially oriented ones on the other.

THE ARRIVAL FROM THE DARKNESS. Possibilities and Functions of the Flashback in the Narrative Construction

Martin Kos

Iluminace 2017, 29(2):85-97 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1517  

This analytical study describes possibilities and functions in the use of flashbacks in Jan Stanislav Kolar's films and situates them in the context of film production in the Czech lands until 1922. It argues that during this period, the flashback was a standard procedure, but Kolár represented a very unique tendency when experimenting with its use in the Czech environment. The analysis primarily focuses on the massive flashback of the The Arrival from the Darkness as an example of a sophisticated work with the distribution of information, through building of a complex network of relationships, parallels between the characters and through breaking...

Most European Productions Do not "Travel". An Interview with Andrew Higson

Jindřiška Bláhová

Iluminace 2017, 29(2):99-104  

Interview with Andrew Higson, Head of the Theatre, Film and Television Department at the University of York

From Restrictions to an Active Cultural Policy (Ivan Klimeš, Kinematografie a stát v českých zemích 1895-1945)

Michal Večeřa

Iluminace 2017, 29(2):126-131  

Reviews of Ivan Klimeš's publication Kinematografie a stát v českých zemích 1895-1945

Poetics of Serial Fiction: From LOST to ARABELA (Radomír D. Kokeš, Světy na pokračování. Rozbor možností seriálového vyprávění)

Jakub Korda

Iluminace 2017, 29(2):132-138  

A review of the book by Radomír D. Kokeš Světy na pokračování. Rozbor možností seriálového vyprávění

The Theory of Affection Meets with the Phenomenon of Formlessness (Tomáš Jirsa, Tváří v tvář beztvarosti. Afektivní a vizuální figury v moderní literatuře)

Jiří Anger

Iluminace 2017, 29(2):139-143  

A review of the book by Tomáš Jirsa Tváří v tvář beztvarosti. Afektivní a vizuální figury v moderní literatuře

Second Readings of Pierre Bourdieu (Guy Austin (ed.), New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies)

Radim Procházka

Iluminace 2017, 29(2):144-153  

Review of Guy Austin's New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies

VOD Has Become a Viable Business. An Interview with Ondřej Kulhánek

Jan Hanzlík

Iluminace 2017, 29(2):105-113  

Interview with Ondřej Kulhánek

The Bohemian-Moravian Film Union on the Way to the Centralization of Czech Film Industry

Tereza Czesany Dvořáková

Iluminace 2017, 29(2):114-119 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1520  

Czechoslovak Legions in the View of Film Cameras. Film Activities of the Liberation Memorial and the Masaryk Educational Institute

Bohdana Kerbachová

Iluminace 2017, 29(2):120-125 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1521