prof. doc. PhDr. Ivan Klimeš

Professor

e-mail: ivan.klimes@ff.cuni.cz

 

 

Ivan Klimeš is a professor at Charles University in Prague, a researcher at the National Film Archive in Prague, and one of the founders and members of the editorial board of Czech film journal Iluminace – journal of film theory, history, and aesthetics. His current research focuses on the practice of film screening in Central Europa in the silent film period and during WWII.

Education:

Prof. (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague /FAMU/ 2019); Habilitation in film studies (FAMU 2008); Masters in theatrological and musicological studies, Charles University in Prague (1981).

Current Employment:

  • Professor at the Department of Film Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (from 1996)
  • Researcher at National Film Archive, Prague (from 1981)

Research interests:

History of Czech (film) culture, state, and cinema, Central Europe and its cinema cooperation

Membership in professional organizations:

  • NECS – European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (2006)
  • Česká společnost pro filmová studia (Czech Society for Cinema Studies, CEFS, steering committee, since 2009)

Publications (since 2014):

  • Ej, bogatýre Makoviči obrazotvorče… Z korespondence Martina Friče a Jaroslava Žáka 1938–1948. Praha: NFA 2014.
  • Rakouská kinematografie ve Velké válce. Tři příběhy. In: Ivan Klimeš – Jan Wiendl, Kultura a totalita II. Válka. Praha: FF UK 2014, pp. 159–175.
  • Kinematografie a stát v českých zemích 1895–1945. Praha: Filozofická fakulta UK 2016, 575 pp.
  • Řádění kinematografu. In: Martin Hrdina, Eva Bendová, Kateřina Piorecká (eds.), Člověk a společnost 19. století tváří v tvář katastrofě. Praha: Academia 2017, pp. 333–340.
  • Czech historical film and historical traditions: The Merry Vives (1938). In: Dorota Ostrowska, Francesco Pitassio, Zsuzsanna Varga, Popular Cinemas in East-Central Europe: Film Cultures and Histories. London – New York: I. B. Tauris 2017, pp. 31–46.
  • Scenáristika a zrození filmové dramaturgie. In: Lucie Antošíková (ed.), Zatemněno. Česká literatura a kultura v protektorátu. Praha: Academia 2017, pp. 277–285.
  • The Motive of Vyšehrad as a Wireless Signature Tune on the Waves of Praha Radio Station and in Feature Films. In: Jan Blüml, Jiří Kopecký, Marta Ottlová (eds.): Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis. Facultas Philosophica. Philosophica – Aesthetica 51 – 2018. Musicologica Olomucensia Vol. 27 (June 2018). Olomouc: Universitatis Palackiana Olomucensis 2018, pp. 195–217.
  • Kdy vlastně Jeník prodal svou Mařenku? In: Martin Hrdina, Kateřina Piorecká, Eva Bendová (eds.), Pochopit vteřinu. Prožívání času v české kultuře 19. století. Praha: Academia 2019, pp. 265-274.
  • Minulost na obzoru. Doslov k edici. Iluminace 32, 2020, č. 2, pp. 132–136.

 

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