Svatoňová Kateřina
(Charles University in Prague), (born 1978), film and media theorist. Since 2009 she has been an employee of the Department of Film Studies at the Charles University in Prague. Since 2015 she has been the chair of that department. Her area of interest focuses on theory, history and philosophy of media. She is conducting archaeological and media studies on Czech modernism. She is examining space and time transformations in the visual culture, history of cinematography and relations between films and other media. She is a member of the editorial office of the Iluminace magazine which concentrates on theory, history and aesthetics of films. She is also the Head of the Czech Association of the Film Studies and a member of the team and the Board of the Foundation of the F. X. Šaldy Award. Moreover, she is a co-editor of several professional publications and monographic journals, (for example: Medienwissenschaft: Východiska a aktuální pozice německé filozofie a teorie médií) and the author of books: 2 ½ D: Prostor (ve) filmu v kontextu literatury a výtvarných umění (2008), Odpoutané obrazy: Archeologie českého virtuálního prostoru (2013) and Mezi-obrazy: Mediální praktiky kameramana Jaroslava Kučery (2016). E-mail: katerina.svatonova@ff.cuni.cz
