Iluminace, 1995 (vol. 7), issue 4

Hussite themes in Czech cinema (1953–1968) in the context of contemporary views on history

Petr Čornej

Iluminace 1995, 7(4):43-75  

The second part of a study on film depictions of the Hussite era, written by a leading expert on this period.

On Kracauer, UFA, and German documentary film. An interview with Klaus Kreimeier

Klaus Kreimeier, Petr Mareš

Iluminace 1995, 7(4):101-107  

An interview with Klaus Kreimeier, a prominent German film historian and expert on the pre-war history of German cinema.

Filmology as a science not only about film

Ivo Pondělíček

Iluminace 1995, 7(4):109-111  

Book review – Jan Bernard, Jazyk, kinematografie, komunikace. O mezeře mezi světy (Language, Cinematography, Communication. On the Gap Between Worlds; Prague 1995).

The History of the Film Province

Ivan Klimeš

Iluminace 1995, 7(4):112-116  

Book review – Peter Mihálik, Vznik slovenskej národnej kinematografie 1896–1948 (The Emergence of Slovak National Cinema 1896–1948; Bratislava 1994).

Montage/AV on neoformalism

Petr Mareš

Iluminace 1995, 7(4):117-119  

Review of the German magazine Montage/AV No. 1/1995, which is devoted to neoformalism as an influential trend in film theory.

Articles

The "power" of genre as a function of the distance of a possible world

Vlastimil Zuska

Iluminace 1995, 7(4):5-17  

A study linking current genre theories with the theory of possible worlds.

Historical films as a working tool for historians

Pierre Sorlin

Iluminace 1995, 7(4):19-41  

A leading French historian's view of the phenomenon of historical films.

"The first cultural-political film." J. A. Holman, Revoluce krve a ducha (Revolution of Blood and Spirit,1936)

Robert Kvaček

Iluminace 1995, 7(4):77-88  

A study of a feature-length documentary film compiled from archival materials, which takes a broad look at the short history of the Czechoslovak state from the perspective of the mid-1930s.

"Finally, everything is as it should be..."

Peter Michalovič, Pavol Minár

Iluminace 1995, 7(4):89-99  

An analysis of Martin Šulík's film Záhrada (The Garden, 1995) by two Slovak authors.