Iluminace, 2013 (vol. 25), issue 1
Editorial
Film and opera
Petra Hanáková, Jan Hanzlík, Kateřina Svatoňová
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):5-7 
The introduction to the following block of articles devoted to the mutual relations between opera and film contains a basic introduction to the issues and the main ideas of the individual contributions.
Theme Articles
The breath of the world. About Wagner's media technique
Friedrich Kittler
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):9-23
This translation of a study by the German philosopher and media theorist Friedrich Kittler deals with the interplay between opera and other media. The author turns to physiological media, and specifically Wagner's operas as sensory fields allow him to see opera performance as a media system in which modern and archaic elements, aesthetics and technology collide.
From Méphistophélès to Méliès. Spectacle and Narrative in Opera and Early Film
Rose Theresa
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):25-37
The study demonstrates the connection between opera and early silent film, in which opera loses its audial component and lends its spectacularity and narrative procedures to film. The author focuses on the "cinematic" character of Gounod's opera Faust and Marguerite, which, according to the author, offers a specific combination of spectacle and narrative characteristic of the film medium.
Nezval's The Bartered Bride
Ivan Klimeš
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):39-62
The text is a contribution to the issue of "silent" film opera and traces the process of adaptation and production history of the unrealised film version of Smetana's The Bartered Bride, which was converted into a film script in 1941 by Vítězslav Nezval. The production history of the project presents the contemporary debate inside the film industry about the possibilities of adaptation and the topic of national production in the context of the Protectorate film.
Television Opera on Czechoslovak Television. Between Mediation and Creative Art
Martin Ledvinka
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):63-74
The study presents two different types of the relationship between opera and the audiovisual moving image: on the one hand, the suppression of the "new" medium and its subordination to the opera performance, and on the other hand, the highlighting of the intermedial fusion and the emphasis on the aesthetic potential of each medium. A survey of the production of Czech television opera, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, shows the fluctuation between these two positions.
Edition
C. a k. tableaux vivants
Ivan Klimeš, Jiří Rak
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):99-106
Description of the letter from the Sudeten German cinema owners E. Hollmann and K. Viehmann to the Hofmeister's office in Vienna in 1914.The letter concerns a request for permission to make a celebratory film about Emperor Franz Joseph I. The following is an analysis of the circumstances of the project's creation and its setting in the business environment of Czech Germans in the field of cinema at the beginning of the 20th century.
Interviews
Broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera Redefine Czech Theaters. An Interview with Martin Cikánek
Jan Hanzlík
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):79-84
Interview with Martin Cikánek, who initiated live broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera to cinemas in Central and Eastern Europe.
Alternative Content: Something Exclusive in Your Cinema. An Interview with Malvína Řezáčová
Jan Hanzlík
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):85-88
An interview with Malvína Řezáčová from the distribution company Aerofilms about live broadcasts of opera and theatre performances to Czech cinemas.
Horizon
Turning Step (Anna Batistová /ed./, Hoří, má panenko)
Luboš Ptáček
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):128-130
Review of the National Film Archive publication Hoří, má panenko
De-Westernizing Gesture and other (Non)Academic Games (Saër Maty Bâ - Will Higbee /eds./, De-Westernizing Film Studies)
Jaromír Blažejovský
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):131-134
Review of the publication Dewesternizující gesto a jiné (ne)akademické hry.
Éminence grise of Experimental Film
Lenka Dolanová
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):135-137
Evaluation of the exhibition Jonas Mekas: ... Continue the Journey...Glimpses of the Past Around..., which took place at the Prague Dox in January - April 2013.
Film Industry Voices
Starting from Scratch Every Time. Art Film on the Czech and European Markets from a Producer's Perspective. An Interview with Pavel Strnad rozhovor s Pavlem Strnadem
Petr Szczepanik
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):89-98
An interview with producer Pavel Strnad about the possibilities and limits of art film in the Czech independent production sector.
Ad Fontes
Beda Heller (1929) 1939-1942 (1946)
Petr Hasan
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):121-124
Information about the founding and activities of Beda Heller in 1939-1942 and about Beda Heller's business in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s.
The Project "Czech Animated Film (1925-1945)"
Michaela Mertová, Marta Kucharová Mentzlová
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):125-127
The text informs about the project Czech Animated Film 1925-1945, which includes two DVD versions and a printed catalogue. The author of the project is the National Film Archive.
NFA's 70th Anniversary
Instead of Shoe Polishes - Archive
Lucie Česálková
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):107-110
Editorial of a new edition, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the National Film Archive.
Prehistory of the Film Archive
Jaroslav Brož, Jiří Lehovec, Svatopluk Ježek
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):111-120
Convoluted articles taken from Czech periodicals (Lidove noviny, Národní osvobození, Právo lidu) from 1935 and 1937. The authors (Svatopluk Ježek, Jiří Lehovec and Jaroslav Brož) deal with the need to preserve film documents and the necessity of establishing a film archive, its main tasks and financing.
Appendix
From Kristián to Zach. Oldřich Nový 1935-1969
Šárka Gmiterková
Iluminace 2013, 25(1):138-144
Detailed information about the dissertation "From Kristián to Zach. Oldřich Nový 1935-1969", its aims, main questions and sources, and its methodology and relevance in the context of research on the so-called star system.