Iluminace, 2007 (vol. 19), issue 2

Emapthy and (Film) Fiction

Alex Neil

Iluminace 2007, 19(2):5-24  

The study addresses the issues of emotional reactions to fictional characters and events and the rationality of this approach. The author focuses on the area of empathy, with particular reference to the possibility of empathetic responses to fictional films.

Convention, Construction, and Cinematic Vision

David Bordwell

Iluminace 2007, 19(2):25-46  

Paradoxes of Spectatorship

Judith Mayne

Iluminace 2007, 19(2):47-72  

Side Participation of (Film) Viewer

Vlastimil Zuska

Iluminace 2007, 19(2):73-87  

Simulator of Modern perceptual Experience: The Mirror Maze on Petřín

Lucie Česálková

Iluminace 2007, 19(2):89-95  

Two Stories with a "Blowup". Cortázar's Short Story as the Literary Impulse for Antonioni's Film

Marie Mravcová

Iluminace 2007, 19(2):97-117  

The study analyses and interprets Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blowup and its eponymous literary draft by Julio Cortázar.

Stories for the Eyes, Emotions, and Muscles. An Interview with Torben Kragh Grodal

Petr Szczepanik

Iluminace 2007, 19(2):119-126  

An interview with Danish film theorist Torben Kragh Grodal about scholarly research on the theory of emotion in film spectatorship, the typology of genre schemas and the evolution of film genres, and the narrativity of computer games.

Comentary on the Interview

Vlastimil Zuska

Iluminace 2007, 19(2):127-128  

The author comments on an interview with Torben Grodal, published in the same issue of Illuminace (No. 2/2007, pp. 119-126) in the context of his other works.

On the Filmbeing, Filminds, and Other Filmonsters

Tereza Hadravová

Iluminace 2007, 19(2):129-131  

Review of Daniel Frampton's publication Filmosophy.

Feelings, Touches, and Shapes

Peter Michalovič

Iluminace 2007, 19(2):132-134  

Review of the publication by Ludmila Vachtová and Polana Bregantová: Teď. Práce Evy Kmentové.

Critique of the Concept of Aestetic Experience in th 2nd Half of the 20 Century (with Preliminary Note on the Relation between Aesthetics and Film Studies)

Ondřej Dadejík

Iluminace 2007, 19(2):135-140  

Summary of the main points of the dissertation entitled Critique of the notion of aesthetic experience in the second half of the 20th century (with a previous note on the relationship between aesthetics and film studies). Connection of the monothematic issue of Illuminace No. 2/2007 with the topic of the dissertation.

Socialist Realism in Discoursive Frameworks of Czech Cinema of 1940s and 1950s

Marika Kupková

Iluminace 2007, 19(2):141-143  

Detailed research procedure and the main ideas and thesis of the dissertation.