Iluminace, 2004 (vol. 16), issue 2


Articles

Hollywood Babel. The Coming of Sound and the Multiple-Language Versions

Ginette Vincendeau

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):5-20  

The question of language versions in film historiography. Problems with the advent of sound film and possibilities of solving them. Consequences of the advent of sound film in the USA and Europe. The emergence of different language versions usually shot simultaneously and the contribution of actors to the success of each version.

Treatment of the Export of Sound Film: the Multiple-Language Versions

Martin Barnier

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):21-38  

Problems after the advent of sound film - sounded silent films, soundless sound films are created, films are shot in several language versions, some speak a multilingual language.

Surfeit of Explicit Differences. A Problem of the Distribution of Foreign Sound Film

Corinna Müller

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):39-59  

A study devoted to the aesthetic and technical aspects of the transition of silent film to sound. The problem of language editing and seven ways of overcoming the language problem. Subtitles and dubbing.

Multi-Language Versions of Czech Films and the Film Idustry in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s

Ivan Klimeą

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):61-76  

The study maps the production of language versions of Czech films in 1930-1938.

Constructing International Space in Czech Multiple-Language Versions

Petr Szczepanik

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):77-91  

The study gives an overview of the various strategies of the European and North American film industry to adapt sound films to the market in other countries in 1928-1931.

Languages, Actors and Audinece. C. a k. polní marąálek versus Der Falsche Feldmarschall

Petr Mareą

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):93-100  

Comparison of the Czech and German versions of the film C. a k. polní marąálek with Vlasta Burian in the main role. Language differences, differences in cast and content.

Two sounds of Music? Soviet and American Musicals in the 1930s

Natascha Drubek

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):101-112  

Definition of the basic theme and special audiovisual structure of the musical as a genre. Two basic types of musical (backstage and direct musical) and their differences. Differences between Soviet and American musical in 1930-1945 in location, audiovisual structure and characters of the main heroes.

Editions and Materials

Murder as a glamours Art of Amour: Palebluebeard (1970) by Jan ©vanmajer

Giuseppe Dierna

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):137-147  

Introduction to a technical script by Jan ©vankmajer Bleděmodrovous analyses ©vankmajer's work in the 1970s in the context of Czech surrealism.

Palebluebeard (Technical screenplay)

Jan ©vankmajer

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):148-157  

Jan ©vankmajer's technical screenplay Palebluebeard, dating from 1970, was published in the samizdat collection Otevřená kniha from 1979. The concept of this cinematic vision later became part of ©vankmajer's film Conspirators of Pleasure.

L'autre chien (Screenplay)

Ludvík ©váb

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):158-159  

The screenplay for Ludvík ©váb's short film L'autre chien, with the author's explanation. The text was published in 1979 in the anthology Otevřená hra.

Interviews

On behalf of Praxeology of the Marginal Forms. An Interview with Vinzenz Hediger

Petr Szczepanik, Pavel Skopal

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):113-135  

Interview with an important film historian, educator and publicist Vinzenz Hediger about the results of his study of marginal forms (e.g. trailers).

Horizon

Survey of the Way from Silent to Sound Film (Corinna Müller: Vom Stummfilm zum Tonfilm)

Petr Mareą

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):169-172  

Publication review Corinna Müller: Vom Stummfilm zum Tonfilm.

Cinematic Imagery of the Future (J. Shaw - P. Weibel (eds.): Future Cinema. The Cinematic lmaginery after Film)

Miloą Vojtěchovský

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):172-174  

Information about the extensive travelling exhibition project Future Cinema and the extensive exhibition catalogue: Future Cinema. The Cinematic Imaginery after Film.

Double-view

Nightmare on Blier Street. About a Paradox and Achitecture in the Film Buffet froid

Zdeněk Hudec

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):161-163  

Review and analysis of Bertrand Blier's film Buffet froid.

Geometry as a Story

Vít Janeček

Iluminace 2004, 16(2):165-167  

Review and analysis of Bertrand Blier's film Buffet froid.