Iluminace, 2018 (vol. 30), issue 1

Thinking Through the Medium Itself. Audiovisual Essay as a Research Method and a Result of Academic Trends

Jiří Anger

Iluminace 2018, 30(1):5-27 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1549  

This study focuses on the practice and theory of the audiovisual essay form, with particular emphasis on its actual and potential uses in the field of academic film studies. It explores the ways in which the audiovisual essay and the emerging videographic film studies can enrich current research methods, especially how they allow to examine audiovisual phenomena through the means of the audio-vision itself, and not just through written texts, and also how the form responds to contemporary trends in film and media theory. Four selected audiovisual essays from the online platform [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic & Moving Image Studies serve...

Ester's Murders: The Killing of Film and the Birth of Acinema

Libuše Heczková, Kateřina Svatoňová

Iluminace 2018, 30(1):29-44 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1550  

The study deals with the film Murdering the Devil (Vražda ing. Čerta, 1970), directed by costume designer Ester Kumbachová, and its various media mutations (film story, radio adaptation, screenplay). The film involves three elements - elaborate mise-en-scene, buzzing orality, philosophical humour - which present exciting traces of the intellectual and artistic life of Ester Krumbachová. This film was chosen precisely because it allows us to unravel the transitional period in which the creative atmosphere of the Sixties still lingered but the basic features of normalization were already prefigured. The study also aims to show the diversity of Krumbachová's...

Moving Image and Socialist Pupil. Film Reception Research within the Pedagogical Dispositif in the 1950s and 1960s

Lucie Česálková

Iluminace 2018, 30(1):45-62 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1551  

No other teaching tool received as much teacher's methodical attention as film, and examination of pupils' reception should help teachers to define specific strategies for its integration into teaching. Despite the authoritative conditions traditionally created by school institutions, teachers were concerned about the instability of the meaning of moving image. These fears in the 1950s and 1960s created a series of research into children's film reception within a pedagogical dispositif. The present study analyzes how the school's institution responded to political assignment under the conditions of state socialism, and, as a result, modulated the dominant...

Preparation of the Second Channel of the Czechoslovak Television in Archival Documents

Jana Čížkovská

Iluminace 2018, 30(1):68-91 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1553  

Searching for a Hidden. Director-Cinematographer Collaboration in the History of Hollywood Film (Christopher Beach, A Hidden History of Film Style: Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process)

Ondřej Belica

Iluminace 2018, 30(1):99-103  

Animasophy or Private Science Without Rules (Ülo Pikkov, Animasofie: Teoretické úvahy o animovaném filmu)

Matěj Forejt

Iluminace 2018, 30(1):104-107  

Tracing the Memory of Hermína Týrlová (Jana Janíková - Lukáš Gregor, Ateliér Hermíny Týrlové)

Pavel Bednařík

Iluminace 2018, 30(1):108-111  

Script Writing is Like an Architectural Drawing. Interview with Jakub Żulczyk

Ondřej Pavlík

Iluminace 2018, 30(1):63-67  

Ludmila Wegenerová-Salmonová 1897-1968 (1999)

Kristýna Doležalová

Iluminace 2018, 30(1):92-98 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1554  

A Case That Should Not Be Closed. The Rise of the Detective Film, Variants of State-Production Cycles and the Logic of State-Production Clusters of the Nationalized Czechoslovak Cinema (1945-1962)

Martin Mišúr

Iluminace 2018, 30(1):112-115 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1558  

New Acquisitions of the NFA Library

Iluminace 2018, 30(1):116-124