Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen
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 broadcas
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László Strausz
Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen
László Strausz Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary
ISBN 978-3-319-55271-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55272-9
ISBN 978-3-319-55272-9 (eBook)
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CONTENTS
1 Introduction
1
2 Hesitation as an Interpretive Strategy
11
3 Modernism Under Construction: Romanian Films on Filmmaking in the Ceaușescu Years
51
4 Television as a Factory of History: The Broadcast of the 1989 Romanian Revolution
83
5 Contesting the Canon of the Past: State Socialism and Regime Change in New Romanian Cinema
115
6 Outcasts, Fugitives, and Migrants: Mobility and the Social Production of Space
157
7 Sanatorium Romania: Regulating the Body in the Hospital, the Prison, and the Convent 183 8 The Crisis of Masculinity in Post-socialist Society
209
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9 Epilogue: Authorial Films and Genres, Festivals, and Audiences
239
Index
249
LIST
Fig. 2.1 Fig. 3.1
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FIGURES
The shifting, mobile vanishing point in Las Meninas (1656) The authorities produce an image of reality in Reconstruction (Lucian Pintilie 1969, Transilvania Films) Screen images interact with the diegetic reality of the film in Reconstruction (Lucian Pintilie 1969, Transilvania Films) The process of manipulating the image by eliminating its original context in Microphone Test (Mircea Daneliuc 1980, Jurnalul) Different technologies: collecting (16 m
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