Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-55271-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 257 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4501 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strausz, László

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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. 

Über Autor(innen)

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