Iluminace, 2020 (vol. 32), issue 3
Articles
Czech Cinema as a Regional Poetics. Questions of Continuity and the Beginnings of Studio Production
Radomír D. Kokeš
Iluminace 2020, 32(3):5-40 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1672 
At the most general level, this article wanted to answer the question of what it requires to write an aesthetic history of Czech cinema. As such, it tried to sketch possibilities of a research project on a poetics of Czech cinema illustrated through an example of Czech cinema to the period around the opening of Barrandov studios in 1933. The poetics of cinema explores construction principles of film work regarding (a) their relationship to individual works and groups of works, and (b) their relationship to particular empirical conditions of the creation of these works in synchronic and diachronic perspectives. The article argued in accordance with...
Club Members for Themselves. Film Club Functionaries in Uherský Brod, 1976-1989
Barbora Podškubková, Pavel Skopal
Iluminace 2020, 32(3):41-59 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1673
Film clubs created a specific cultural environment in Czechoslovakia of the so-called Normalization period of the 1970s and 1980s. Thanks to the extensive infrastructure of film clubs and grass-roots activity in their establishing and maintenance, areas outside large cities were also covered. The case study of the Uherský Brod film club made it possible to identify the functions that the clubs could perform for the functionaries who ran them in such a small city. It thus seeks to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the Normalization period as a specific social world characterized by a very unequal distribution of power, but at the same...
Object Specific Cinema. Stylistic Elements of Videomapping in the Work of the Macula Group
Ondřej Bezucha
Iluminace 2020, 32(3):61-81 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1674
Projection mapping is a visual process where a moving picture is projected onto the surface of real objects in a creative manner. This phenomenon started to appear widely in galleries and music clubs about ten years ago, but it has grown very quickly. Today's large-scale projection mappings are a common part of various brand campaigns and city celebrations.The main objective of this study is to describe how the projection mapping style works. It considers four basic elements of projection mapping - moving imagery, sound, projected objects, and surrounding space. However, it focuses primarily on relations between moving imagery and projected objects....
Didactics of Composition and Order. Development of Teaching Editing Theory at FAMU
Michal Böhm
Iluminace 2020, 32(3):83-115 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1675
This study aims to research the progression of film editing theory education at the Department of Editing at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague from 1964 to the present. The study focuses on the didactics of editing theory - which concerns the analysis of the textbooks, syllabus of study and practical education - and through it uncovers the intellectual transformation of the editing theory itself. This transformation occurred in a historical context and was deeply influenced by the institutional development of the Department of Editing. Thus, the secondary intention of this study is to briefly summarize the history...
Under the Protection of the Film Industry. Total Military Deployment in Culture and Cinematography During the Protectorate
Ivan Klimeš
Iluminace 2020, 32(3):117-138 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1676
Ivan Klimeš's text examines the impact of total war mobilization in 1944 on the cultural sphere in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, providing a detailed analysis of the exceptional position and protective role of the Czech-Moravian Film Headquarters, thanks to which the domestic film industry was saved from liquidation and its creative workers from forced labor, despite drastic blanket restrictions.
Edition
Total Military Deployment in Czech Cinema 1944
Ivan Klimeš
Iluminace 2020, 32(3):139-168 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1677
This edition of historical documents, compiled by Ivan Klimeš, maps the impact of the so-called total war effort of summer 1944 on Czech cultural life, particularly on cinema in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The introductory texts present the government measures of the time, which led to the widespread closure of theaters, restrictions on the publication of the press, and a reduction in musical and artistic activities with the aim of freeing up as much labor as possible for the war industry. Particular attention is paid to film production, which, unlike other industries, was maintained, although it had to undergo strict rationalization measures...
Reviews
Czechoslovak Television for Foreign Viewers and Readers (Martin Štoll: Television and Totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia. From the First Democratic Republic to the Fall of Communism)
Jana Čížkovská
Iluminace 2020, 32(3):169-172 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1678
Jana Čížkovská's review presents Martin Štoll's pioneering English-language monograph Television and Totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia, which comprehensively maps the historical development and transformation of Czechoslovak television from its interwar beginnings to the breakup of the federation against the backdrop of political and social changes, while analyzing in detail its dynamic relationship to totalitarian power and the ideological discourse of the time.
Parikk's Green Turn in Media Theory: Meritorious Intention, Problematic Philosophy (Jussi Parikka: Geologie médií)
Jakub Ferenc
Iluminace 2020, 32(3):173-181 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1679
Jakub Ferenec's review presents the Czech translation of Jussi Parikka's book The Geology of Media, which explores in depth the neglected material, geological, and environmental foundations of media technologies. While the reviewer highlights its ecological appeal, he also critically points to the author's deterministic anti-capitalism and proposes a post-phenomenological and McLuhanesque approach as a suitable theoretical alternative.
"Bodies in Transition": Towards Eastern European and Russian Corporeality in Film (E. Mazierska, M. Mroz, and E. Ostrowska (eds.): The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia: Between Pain and Pleasure)
Taida Kusturica
Iluminace 2020, 32(3):182-185 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1680
Taida Kusturica's review presents the anthology The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia, which examines the film representation of physicality in Eastern European and Russian cinema through the lens of affective turn, Despite appreciating its interdisciplinary contribution and a number of thought-provoking case studies, the reviewer critically points out the editors' tendency to slip into simplistic stereotypes about the communist regime's exclusively repressive and anti-corporeal relationship to the human body.