Iluminace, 2019 (vol. 31), issue 4

Decline of Quality and Prestige? Czech Film Reviews in the Digital Era

Petr Mareš

Iluminace 2019, 31(4):5-26 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1641  

The rise of digital media shook the sphere of film criticism because not only professional journalists but also fans and common users got the opportunity to write film reviews. Under these conditions, the shape of reviews changes and becomes more diverse. This article deals with the issues of structure, functions and language of contemporary Czech film reviews published on the internet in comparison with reviews in the press. The reviews posted on websites vary in many aspects, but some characteristic features and tendencies are evident. While reviews in the press often give prominence to description and interpretation of examined films, reviews on...

Devastating Dreamjobs. Ambivalence, Emotions, and Creative Labor in a Post-socialist Audiovisual Industry

Johana Kotišová

Iluminace 2019, 31(4):27-45 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1642  

Recent studies of creative labor have stirred up a discussion about the most appropriate theoretical framework for studying it: is creative labor a brute form of oppression? Or does it rather generate new and multiple subjectivities? Does creative labor subject the workers to a regime of self-discipline and governmentality? Or does it have purely positive features that cannot be reduced to compensatory mechanisms? Discussion of the accuracy of the different approaches still needs to be better grounded in empirical research. In particular, what is missing in the emergent work on creative labor is insight into non-Western creative workers' identities...

The Sound of Saute ma ville

Sara Pinheiro

Iluminace 2019, 31(4):47-60 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1643  

Saute ma ville (1968) is the first film by Chantal Akerman (1950-2015). Her portfolio includes conventional and experimental approaches, both in fiction and documentary, essays, visual portraits. Every film is a new attempt, searching for an approach that altogether still remains as her individual aesthetics. In this film, most of Akerman's attitude is already shaped: the simplicity, the intentional nativity that distracts the audience for what is to come, the feeling of verité, as much as the feeling of 'nothing happens' so characteristic of hers. Under the scrutiny of Acousmatic Foley's concepts ('sound-prop', 'sound-actor' and 'sound-motif '), this...

When National Female Bildungsroman Meets Global Fantasies about Nazis. Historical Roots and Current Troubles in Lída Baarová

Victoria Shmidt

Iluminace 2019, 31(4):61-78 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1644  

This text explores Lída Baarová (2016) by Filip Renč, a film that exceeds the limits of storytelling practices shaping views on female emancipation. Altman's semantic/syntactic/pragmatic approach to the genre frames the deconstruction of the film as an example of non-random cannibalization of narrative strategies and cultural codes. Introducing Renč's filmography sheds light on a specific set of intertexts for contextualizing Lída Baarová as mixing meta-cinematic farce and female bildungsroman. Examining Lída Baarová in the context of European meta-cinematic farce about female representatives of mass culture in fascist regimes aims to recognize the...

"So Far, We Are Poor Bastards, and It's Hard to Be Ok with It!"

Jaroslav Lopour

Iluminace 2019, 31(4):90-92 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1647  

Memories of the Beginnings of Czech Film Production until 1914

Iluminace 2019, 31(4):93-126  

Spectatorship as World Creation. An Interview with Timothy Corrigan

Tereza Hadravová, Andrea Slováková

Iluminace 2019, 31(4):79-84  

The Little Czech Who Dreamed about Pixels (Jaroslav Švelch, Gaming the Iron Curtain)

Tamas Beregi

Iluminace 2019, 31(4):131-135  

Film Archive and Copyright: A Study of One Relationship (Claudy Op den Kamp, The Greatest Films Never Seen)

Ivan David

Iluminace 2019, 31(4):136-139  

To Make Courageous Decisions. An Interview with Dušan Barok

Adéla Kudlová

Iluminace 2019, 31(4):85-89  

Vlasta Fabianová (1912-1991)

Kristýna Doležalová

Iluminace 2019, 31(4):127-130 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1649  

New Acquisitions of the NFA Library

Iluminace 2019, 31(4):140-148