11/11/2025
Iluminace No. 2/2025 is out now! The theme is: A Conversation Beyond the Script. As part of this, we are publishing seven articles:
🟤 Jan Černík / Jan Trnka: Shifting Screenwriting — The Past, Present and Future of the Craft. An Introduction to a Special Issue “Conversation Beyond Script”
🟤 Claus Tieber: Fascinating Rhythm. The Screenwriting of Sound Symphonies for American and European Film of the 1930s
🟤 Martin Kos: Copyright, Credits, and Write-for-Hire Creativity. Authorship and Authority in Czech Silent Screenwriting
🟤 Rosamund Davies: Talking to You. Addressing the Viewer in Virtual Reality Narratives
🟤 Cecilie Levy: Subjective Access and Focalization in VR
🟤 Maria Chiara Oltolini: Storytelling Beyond Dialogue and Preschool Animation. Rethinking Audiovisual Narrative in the TV Series The Sound Collector
🟤 Imran Firdaus: The Living Script. Proposing an Adaptive Practice in Humaira Bilkis’s Things I Could Never Tell My Mother (2022)
And three more studies outside the theme:
🟤 Nicholas David Hudac: The Anti-Star. Věra Hrubá Ralston and Fault Lines of Classic Models of Stardom
🟤 Veronika Klusáková: “You All Have Such a Wholesome Look.”
Class and the Gothic Family in Ozark
🟤 Jiří Horníček: Filmový formát 9,5 mm coby obchodní artikl.
Historie firmy Cinéma v kontextu českého amatérského filmu v letech 1932–1952
The issue also includes an interview with Cristi Puiu and review of the book Decolonising the (Post-)Soviet Screen.
☝️The complete issue can be found here: https://www.iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu/2025/mn2.php?l=en
ℹ️Printed version available soon: www.eshop.nfa.cz/iluminace
