Iluminace, 2010 (vol. 22), issue 2
Editorial
The film studio: place, enterprise and the world of work
Petr Szczepanik
Iluminace 2010, 22(2):5-7 
The editorial to the thematic block of articles devoted to film studies and their development briefly defines the issue and characterizes the individual contributions.
Theme Articles
New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood: The Clearinghouse Concept
Bronislava Grygová
Iluminace 2010, 22(2):9-26
A chapter from Edward Jay Epstein's book: The Big Picture. The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood describes the transformation of the studios, the dream factories that mass-produced and mass-distributed dozens of films a year, into monopolistic distributors and clearing banks, investing in selected big projects and splitting the revenues between themselves and privileged partners. The text introduces the reader to the business and power logic of Hollywood in the era of conglomerates, as well as to the contemporary jargon of the upper echelons of the professional community there.
If You Build It- Film Studios and the Transformative Effects of Migrating Media Productions
Ben Goldsmith
Iluminace 2010, 22(2):27-46
The author maps the current developments in the globalization of film production. The much-discussed migration of runaway productions, film projects fleeing for cheaper services, locations, labour and financial incentives, varies to a large extent according to the opportunities offered by studios anywhere in the world. The meaning of the word studio here means both a physical location, a studio hall with an adjacent outdoor lot, and a flagship in a complex network of local infrastructure, which, in addition to studios, usually (e.g. also in the case of Prague) includes attractive accessible locations, a non-unionised, cheap and flexible workforce,...
The advent of normalisation in the Barrandov film studio
Štěpán Hulík
Iluminace 2010, 22(2):47-66
The author of a study on political vetting in Czechoslovakia in 1970-1971 attempted to uncover the behind-the-scenes power struggles and external political pressures that ended the experiments with liberalisation and decentralisation at Studio Barrandov and restored rigid ideological control.
"Off the Plan": the Czechoslovak Army Film and the Prague Spring
Alice Lovejoy
Iluminace 2010, 22(2):67-81
The essay is taken from the manuscript of a book by American film historian Alice Lovejoy: The Army and the Avant-Garde: Art Cinema in the Czechoslovak Military. The author asks how the Czechoslovak military film production system reacted to the liberalization of the 1960s and the subsequent Soviet invasion, and how the artistic ambitions of young filmmakers (the phenomenon of "off the plan" production) were realized there.
Interviews
The best scripts did not make it to implementation. Interview with Marcela Pittermann
Štěpán Hulík
Iluminace 2010, 22(2):83-101
An interview with Marcela Pittermann, who worked there from 1961 to 1991, about the rise of the New Wave in the 1960s and her collaboration with its main representatives, about vetting and film production in the period of normalisation, and about reorganisation in the 1980s.
Obscure Objects of the Philosophy of Media. Interview with Lorenz Engell
Kateřina Krtilová
Iluminace 2010, 22(2):103-111
An interview with Lorenz Engell focuses on media science and mass communication studies, the theoretical and political demands on media philosophy curricula and the research programme of the IKKM (Internationales Kolleg f´r Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie).
Horizon
The Spirit of Time (not only) in the Grey Zone (Jan Bernard: From the Grey Zone. Texts and Contexts)
Radomír D. Kokeš
Iluminace 2010, 22(2):115-119
Review of Jan Bernard's From the Grey Zone: Texts and Contexts.
Interpreter yes, narratologist no (Mircea Dan Duta: Vypravěč, autor a bůh. Naratologické perspektivy a narativní techniky v české nové vlně 60. let)
Radomír D. Kokeš
Iluminace 2010, 22(2):120-125
Review of Mircea Dana Duty: Narrator, Author and God: narratological perspectives and narrative techniques in the Czech New Wave of the 1960s.
Ad Fontes
Union of Film Industry and Trade (/1913/ 1921-1941 /1948/)
Jarmila Petrová
Iluminace 2010, 22(2):112-114
History and development of the Union of Film Industry and Commerce from 1913 to 1948.