Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen

László Strausz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 257 Seiten

2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-85613-1 (ISBN)

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This book argues that hesitation as an artistic and spectatorial strategy connects various screen media texts produced in post-war Romania. The chapters draw a historical connection between films made during the state socialist decades, televised broadcasts of the 1989 Romanian revolution, and films of the new Romanian cinema. The book explores how the critical attitude of new Romanian cinema demonstrates a refusal to accept limiting, binary discourses rooted in Cold War narratives. Strausz argues that hesitation becomes an attempt to overcome restrictive populist narratives of the past and present day. By employing a performative and mobile position, audiences are encouraged to consider conflicting approaches to history and social transformation.

László Strausz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.

1. Introduction.- 2. Hesitation as an interpretive strategy.- 3. Modernism under construction: films on filmmaking in the Ceau escu years.- 4. Television as a factory of history: the broadcast of the 1989 Romanian Revolution.- 5. Contesting the canon of the past: state socialism and the regime change in the new Romanian cinema.- 6. Outcasts, fugitives and migrants: mobility and social production of space.- 7. Sanatorium Romania: regulating the body in the hospital, the prison and the convent.- 8. The crisis of masculinity in post-socialist society.- 9. Epilogue: authorial films and genres, festivals and audiences.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.8.2018
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 257 p. 20 illus., 18 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	354 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	1989 Romanian Revolution • Cold War • Cultural Memory • hesitation • Narratives • new Romanian cinema • political struggles • Populist • post-war Romania • regime change • social change • Social Republic of Romania • Social Transformation • state socialist
ISBN-10	3-319-85613-8 / 3319856138
ISBN-13	978-3-319-85613-1 / 9783319856131
Zustand	Neuware