Iluminace, 1993 (vol. 5), issue 1
Peter Mänz: Frühes Kino im Arbeiterbezirk. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 1991. – Gábor Kreselak: "Singend wird das Leben schön". Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 1992.
Jiří Pokorný
Iluminace 1993, 5(1):123-125 
The intersection of film topics on a non-film academic platform - a review of two film historical studies published in the Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft.
Introduction to the Philology of Film
Petr Mareš
Iluminace 1993, 5(1):125-129
A review of a book by a key figure in German film philology, Klaus Kanzog.
Allan Casebier: Film and phenomenology
Vlastimil Zuska
Iluminace 1993, 5(1):129-134
A review of American philosopher Allan Casebier's book on the potential of Husserl's phenomenology for the study of film. The reviewer describes the book as "an introduction to phenomenology for film theorists".
Slovak Documentary Film as an Object of Research
Jana Hádková
Iluminace 1993, 5(1):134-136
Review of the book of the Slovak film historian Václav Macek "On the History of Slovak Documentary Film" (1992).
Articles
Historical Themes in the Cinema of the Third Reich
Jiří Rak
Iluminace 1993, 5(1):7-36
The article examines the genre of historical film in the Nazi era and traces the use of national historical themes for current political and propaganda purposes.
From film archaeology to "new history". On questions of historical source
Tomáš Petráň
Iluminace 1993, 5(1):37-43
The article deals with film as a historical source in the discourse of "new history".
Man and machine in the biograph. Film performance in the silent era
Ivan Klimeš
Iluminace 1993, 5(1):45-73
The author focuses on music and sound in the cinemas of the silent era, the question of synchronizing live musical accompaniment with the technically fixed but variable-speed projected image, the development of new forms of cultural industries tied to the operation of cinemas, and in general the relationship between the live, i.e. unique elements of film performance and their reproduction layer.
Biograph Orchestra
Louis Delluc
Iluminace 1993, 5(1):75-77
An essay on music in cinema by a key author and theorist of the French film avant-garde of the 1920s. Translated by Tereza Límanová.
Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems
Bill Nichols
Iluminace 1993, 5(1):79-101
The author takes up the theme of Walter Benjamin's classic text "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility" and explores what is happening to this theme in the cyber age. Translated by Ivan Žáček.
Editions and Materials
Introduction to the synopsis of the legionary film
Jiří Rak
Iluminace 1993, 5(1):115-116
The author presents the circumstances of the creation of the film for the 10th anniversary of Czechoslovakia, For the Czechoslovak State (1928), based on the screenplay by Rudolf Medek.
For the Czechoslovak State
Rudolf Medek
Iluminace 1993, 5(1):117-122
Synopsis for a film produced by the Ministry of National Defence in 1928 for the tenth anniversary of Czechoslovakia.
Interviews
Interview with Claude Lévi-Strauss
Michel Delahaye, Jacques Rivette
Iluminace 1993, 5(1):103-113
An interview with French ethnologist and representative of structuralist thought Claude Lévi-Strauss on his view of the cinema of the time, published in a series of interviews with "the most outstanding witnesses of contemporary culture" in Cahiers du cinéma.