Iluminace, 2018 (vol. 30), issue 3

Useful Genre of Detective Films. How Changes of Cultural Values Influenced the Reception of Detective Films in the Era of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Pavel Skopal

Iluminace 2018, 30(3):5-22 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1574  

During the era of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, four films that were perceived by film critics and various dramaturgy departments were made - Pelikán má alibi (Pelikán Has an Alibi), Těžký život dobrodruha (The Hard Life of an Adventurer), Čtrnáctý u stolu (The Fourteenth at the Table), and Paklíč (Skeleton Key). A detailed look at these films as fragments of contemporary cultural life and politics allowed us to distinguish changes in the value orientations of culture functionaries, film producers, dramaturgists, or film journalists. Nevertheless, it was also necessary to take into account the rapid changes that occupation brought about...

The Digital Single Market Strategy as a Threat or an Opportunity? A Reconstruction of the Czech Distributors' Attitudes toward the DSM Strategy

Pavel Zahrádka, Petr Szczepanik

Iluminace 2018, 30(3):23-48 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1575  

In the present study, we focus on local distributors operating on the small national market, whose voices were rather missing in the pan-EU debates or under-represented in the policies of international interest groups (i.e. professional associations) and national political positions. The aim of the study is to reconstruct and compare Czech distributors' attitudes toward the Digital Single Market strategy (DSM) and its individual regulatory initiatives, starting from May 2015. First, we situate the DSM into the wider cultural-political context, marked by tensions between basic principles of free market in the EU and the territoriality of copyright,...

Filmmakers Versus Slovak Film Fund. Study of an Institution from the Economic Perspective and from the Perspective of Public Discourse

Miroslav Vlček

Iluminace 2018, 30(3):49-76 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1576  

This study focuses on the Slovak Film Fund as a main funding option for Slovak film professionals. The film fund was created in 2009 and since then it has supported hundreds of projects: fiction movies, documentaries, animations but also reconstructions of cinemas, research project, etc. Since the beginning of the fund examples showing asymmetry in relations between filmmakers and the institution has come up and they can be traced in public discourse. This study provides deeper insight into how this discourse of asymmetry is created and how it reflects upon relations between filmmakers and the public institution of Slovak Film Fund. This discourse...

A High Contrast Portrait. Representations of the Czech-German Borderland in Recent Czech Film and TV Productions

Ludmiła Władyniak

Iluminace 2018, 30(3):77-92 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1577  

Using visual social semiotics tools, the paper studies representations of the Czech-German borderland in the film Schmitke (2014) and two television series Pustina (2016) and Rapl (2016). In recent years, Czech cinema has followed the path of world cinema in producing films and television series that could be classified as (Nordic) noir. Since 2015, a handful of productions following this globally recognized genre have been made. The northwestern borderland of the Czech Republic, also known as the Sudetes, has become the setting for these productions. The high contrast postindustrial landscape, abandoned places, and wild mountains seem to catch the...

An Independent Environment Supports Innovation. An Interview with Aymar Jean Christian

Dorota Vašíčková

Iluminace 2018, 30(3):93-97  

Patchwork (Martin Palúch, Cenzúra a dokumentárny film po roku 1989)

Václav Macek

Iluminace 2018, 30(3):118-126  

On Affect and Melodrama (Jiří Anger, Afekt, výraz, performance: Proměny melodramatického excesu v kinematografii těla)

Martin Charvát

Iluminace 2018, 30(3):127-129  

On Cinema after Cinema (Lars Henrik Gass, Film und Kunst nach dem Kino)

Matěj Forejt

Iluminace 2018, 30(3):130-135  

To Breath into Images. An Interview with Gustav Deutsch

Tereza Hadravová

Iluminace 2018, 30(3):99-103  

Brichta Jindřich (1897-1957)

Jiří Kutil

Iluminace 2018, 30(3):104-108 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1580  

Film Zlín. A Set of Oral-Historical Interviews in the NFA's Audio Record Collection

Kateřina Chromková, Marie Barešová

Iluminace 2018, 30(3):109-117 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1581  

New Acquisitions of the NFA Library

Iluminace 2018, 30(3):136-141