Iluminace, 2011 (vol. 23), issue 2
Editorial
Editorial
Kateřina Svatoňová
Iluminace 2011, 23(2):25-29 
Introduction to the following group of articles on the topic of Media Archaeology in the Postmedia Age. A basic introduction to the concepts, issues and main ideas of each contribution.
Theme Articles
Gaze as a Disruption of Image. Between Mimesis and Mimicry
Bernhard Siegert
Iluminace 2011, 23(2):31-51
A theoretical-philosophical essay on mediality and its history, not so much concerned with the media object itself, but rather with the genesis and nature of the media environment as a framework for media operations and material objects.
Temptations of Pleasure: Nickelodeons, Amusement Parks, and the Sights of Female Sexuality
Lauren Rabinovitz
Iluminace 2011, 23(2):53-67
The translation of Lauren Rabinovitz's text challenges the approach to media history presented in the previous article. Here, an archaeological approach is intertwined with the practices of the new film history, and together they reveal the image of women that is born with modernity and how it transcends into the representational practice of technical images. The text traces the instituting of budget cinemas and theme parks as cultural spaces, how these spaces aroused spectators' desires, how they helped to present the female body as spectacle, and what meaning they assigned to women. The study focuses on the period 1900-1915 in the United States.
Observer's Dilema: To Touch or Not to Touch
Wanda Strauven
Iluminace 2011, 23(2):69-82
The text explores specific media and asks questions related to social and cultural issues. It sees the film medium as a possible successor to scientific toys, whose optical illusion is dependent on touch.
Between Painting and Deception. Im/material Images of Czech Modernity
Lucie Česálková, Kateřina Svatoňová
Iluminace 2011, 23(2):83-101
The joint study by Lucie Česálková and Kateřina Svatoňová focuses on the specifics of Czech modernism and asks how the politically and socially complicated environment dealt with the tension between the need to saturate the audiovisual-haptic field with new technical, kinetic, dynamic images and attractions and the national revivalist tendency, which drew on the past and tradition. The research is delimited by two major events: the General Land Centennial Exhibition in 1891 and the Exhibition of Architecture and Engineering in 1898.
Articles
Development of Film Production in the Czech Lands in the Late 1910s and Early 1920s. The Case of Praga-Film Company
Michal Večeřa
Iluminace 2011, 23(2):5-24
The study maps the development of film production in the Czech lands in the 1910s and 1920s. The main topic of the text is the activity of the Praga-film company, one of the most important film production companies in the first post-war years in Czechoslovakia. After a capital increase, Praga-film became the first instance in Czechoslovak cinema of a banking institution directly participating in film production. In his article, the author focuses on the filmmaking process itself and attempts to show how work tasks were divided among the individual Praga-film employees and what production resources Praga-film had at its disposal. He concludes by describing...
Editions and Materials
Film History from a Litter Bin
Ivan Klimeš
Iluminace 2011, 23(2):112-116
The author attempts to symbolically edit three film strips ranging in length from half a metre to one metre using three photograms. These strips are special because they are images not meant to be seen by the viewer. The published photograms are preserved in duplicate and in copies of the Czech version of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Interviews
History of Media and Media of History. Interview with Bernhard Siegert
Kateřina Krtilová
Iluminace 2011, 23(2):103-111
Interview with Bernhard Siegert, Professor of History and Theory of Cultural Techniques at the University of Weimar.
Horizon
Color of Beer, Honey and Chilled Vodka (Petra Hanáková - Kevin B. Johnson (eds.), Visegrad Cinema. Points of Contact from the New Waves to the Present)
Jaromír Blažejovský
Iluminace 2011, 23(2):120-124
Review of the collection Visegrad Cinema: Points of Contact from the New Waves to the Present.
Béla Balázs - In Praise of Film Art (12th Czech-Slovak Filmology Conference 2009)
Zuzana Chlebová
Iluminace 2011, 23(2):125-127
Information about the programme of the 12th Czech-Slovak Filmology Conference, held in October 2009 in Levoča, Slovakia. The central theme of the conference was the work of Béla Balázs.
Ad Fontes
Ocean-Film, spol. s r. o. (1922-1950)
Tomáš Lachman
Iluminace 2011, 23(2):117-119
Establishment, history, development and activities of the film distribution company Ocean-Film, spol. s r. o. between 1922 and 1950.
Appendix
Sovietisation and Planning in the Film Industries of Soviet Bloc countries. A Comparative Perspective on East Germany and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 (A Book Project)
Pavel Skopal, Karl Lars
Iluminace 2011, 23(2):128-129
The main ideas, structure and preparation of a joint project on the Sovietization of the film industry in the Eastern Bloc countries, especially in the former Czechoslovakia and East Germany between 1945 and 1960.