Iluminace, 2018 (vol. 30), issue 2
Acting in Film, Television and Theater

Herectví mezi filmem, divadlem a televizí

Šárka Gmiterková

Iluminace 2018, 30(2):5-8  

Living Meaning. The Fluency of Film Performance (Czech translation)

Andrew Klevan

Iluminace 2018, 30(2):9-20 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1561  

Film Acting, Czech Silent Cinema, and Questions of Film Style Research

Radomír D. Kokeš

Iluminace 2018, 30(2):21-57 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1562  

This article focuses on formally analytical research of film acting and raises two questions. (1) To what degree it is a feasible approach towards film acting outline and how does it explain the continuities and discontinuities of a stylistic history of Czech silent cinema till 1922? (2) To what degree such aim is or is not attainable with the help of existing knowledge in the field of international film style historiography? In its first part, this study follows top-down argumentation. It reflects the already existing interpretative frameworks associated with the early history of film acting, mainly in large foreign cinemas (for example the American...

"He is in Love and not Corrupted by Wealth". Oldřich Nový as a Film Actor between the Years 1936-1969

Šárka Gmiterková

Iluminace 2018, 30(2):59-75 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1563  

Despite being fondly remembered as one of the brightest stars of the so-called First Republic era (1918-1938), the popular discourse surrouding Nový, articulated in numerous books, television biopics and exhibitons only rarely scrutinizes his strong perfoming assets. Staring in 22 films up to the year 1945, Nový was not only a celebrated stage actor and singer, but a film actor as well. In spite of not cultivating any direct connection between his stage career and film parts (in terms of screen adaptations of his theatre repertoire), his star persona nevertheless demonstrates recognizable patterns on the level of performance, genre and narrative. This...

Marta Kubišová: The Non-Actress with the Thalia Award. The 1960s Czech Pop-Stars between Theatre, Cinema, and Television

Miroslava Papežová

Iluminace 2018, 30(2):77-92 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1564  

The article deals with the phenomenon of the 1960s Czech pop-stars and their engaging on multiple platforms - theatre, cinema and television. Although most of them were not professional actors and actresses, they left a significant mark in the 1960s audiovisual cultural production in Czechoslovakia. The media industries, as well as the period discourse accepted them not just as singers, but as actors too. The case study focuses on Marta Kubišová, a famous Czech pop-star, who had a contract with one of the popular small theatres, and who acted in films and television shows. This part centres on analyzing Kubišová's musical and physical performance (movement...

The Actor between Theatre and Film (An Introduction to an Edition)
Project Divadlo státního filmu 1948-1951

Šárka Gmiterková

Iluminace 2018, 30(2):98-120 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1566  

Peripeties of One Art School and One Research Project (Martin Franc - Lenka Krátká - Petr Bednařík - Jitka Rauchová, Dějiny Akademie múzickych umění v Praze)

Tereza Czesany Dvořáková

Iluminace 2018, 30(2):135-138  

Inspirational Cracks, Echoes of Slavoj Zizek and the Culture of Czech Stalinism (Vít Schmarc, Země lyr a ocele: Subjekty, ideologie, modely, mýty a rituály v kultuře českého stalinismu

Martin Mišúr

Iluminace 2018, 30(2):139-146  

United by Surrealism (Bruno Solařík (ed.), Jan Švankmajer)

Luboš Ptáček

Iluminace 2018, 30(2):147-149  

Sama sobě objektem (Maria Lassnig 1919-2014; Národní galerie)

Matěj Forejt

Iluminace 2018, 30(2):150-152  

Casting is a Creative Profession. An Interview with Kateřina Oujezdská

Šárka Gmiterková

Iluminace 2018, 30(2):93-97  

Kolár Jan Stanislav (1896-1973)

Petr Hasan

Iluminace 2018, 30(2):121-124 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1567  

Digitally Curating Portals for Critical Editions and Towards Building an Audiovisual Corpus

Michal Klodner

Iluminace 2018, 30(2):125-134 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1568  

New Acquisitions of the NFA Library

Iluminace 2018, 30(2):153-163