Iluminace, 2021 (vol. 33), issue 1

Curation of a Personalized Video on Demand Service. A Longitudinal Study of the Danish Public Service Broadcaster DR

Julie Münter Lassen, Jannick Kirk Sørensen

Iluminace 2021, 33(1):5-33 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1693  

National public service broadcasters are in their programming portfolio very different from global streaming services. Public service is media with a mission, and with some very specific obligations, e.g. to promote national culture. However, departing from the channel-oriented broadcasting heritage public service media are now also becoming popular streaming services. With the Danish public service organization DR as our case, we analyze the tensions in the transition from channels over video on demand to personalized recommendations.

A Popular Post-Yugoslav Cinema: Does it Exist and Why (Not)?

Petar Mitrić, Tamara Kolarić

Iluminace 2021, 33(1):35-62 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1694  

Building an audience is currently the most challenging task for national film industries in Europe. This article scrutinizes this challenge by focusing on a specific European region - the post-Yugoslav one. Following the disintegration of Yugoslavia, a large joint film market which regularly produced highly successful films was replaced by seven national cinemas. In industry terms, these cinemas operate in a very different context from that of the former Yugoslavia, including no integrative film policy, fragmented territories and audiences. Yet a number of post-Yugoslav films have managed to reach a significant national and/or regional audience.Relying...

In Poland, That Is To Say Nowhere. Ubu roi in the Czech and Polish Film Versions

Petr Mareš

Iluminace 2021, 33(1):63-76 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1695  

This article comprises an analysis and comparison of two film adaptations of the play Ubu roi by Alfred Jarry, made in Central Europe following the fall of communism in 1989 - one was shot in the Czech Republic (Král Ubu, F. A. Brabec, 1996), the other one in Poland (Ubu Król, Piotr Szulkin, 2003). The article explores the motivation behind these adaptations and how it is reflected in their structure and semantics. The significant reception Jarry's work had enjoyed in both cultures in previous decades appears to have been one such stimulus. Furthermore, the source had a potential for being an appropriate foundation for a metaphorical expression of...

Ladislav Rychman: The Transmedia Way to The Hop-Pickers

Miroslava Papežová

Iluminace 2021, 33(1):77-102 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1696  

This study explains the early career of the Czech film director Ladislav Rychman including forming his professional orientation, creative approach and features. Dealing with the transmedia directors concept, it analyses the Ladislav Rychman's way to making the first film musical in Czechoslovakia - The Hop-Pickers from 1964. Working on short and documentary films, advertising films, television entertainment shows and formats, music films and film musicals, polyecran projects, Ladislav Rychman transposed his creative know-how between culture industries, media and formats simultaneously during his longlasting career. The aim of the study is to reveal...

Czech Amateur and Semi-professional Music Audiovisual Production at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Martin Zelený, Michal Straka

Iluminace 2021, 33(1):103-131 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1697  

The presented article focuses on the audiovisual production of Czech amateur and semi-professional musicians at the beginning of the 21st century. The study contains quantitative data analysis concerning information on the development of the volume and genre structure of audiovisual production in the years 2009 to 2018. The main part of the study is based on a series of in-depth interviews with semi-professional and professional producers of audiovisual content who shared their view on the development of a music video in each of the six music genre categories (Elektronika, Hip-hop / R&B, Jazz / Blues / Klasika, Metal / HC, Pop / Rock / Punk, a...

Cinema as a Problem: Inventions and Innovations in the History of Cinema (Benoît Turquety, Inventing Cinema: Machines, Gestures and Media History)

Ondřej Belica

Iluminace 2021, 33(1):133-140 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1698  

Revisiting the Canon of Sound Theory (Michel Chion, Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen)

Sara Pinheiro

Iluminace 2021, 33(1):141-147 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1699