Overview
- Investigates hesitancy as a specific artistic strategy in the films of the new Romanian cinema and its antecedents
- Interprets the representations of history and social change in the films of the new Romanian cinema as a cultural response to the unsettling power of the images witnessed during the days of the revolution
- Progresses as a cultural history that isolates hesitation as the common artistic strategy of the new Romanian cinema, and explains its emergence through the social-historical context that gave birth to it
- Establishes connections with cinematic and televisual antecedents and thereby places the films in a wider cultural landscape
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“To many, the celebrated new wave of Romanian cinema seems to have ‘emerged’ out of the blue. Strausz’ meticulous study shows how the new cinema grew organically out of ‘hesitant’ discourse manifested in the audiovisual milieu of earlier periods. This book not only puts the discourse of ‘hesitation’ to productive work, but also provides a prime example of a comprehensive and contextualizing cultural approach in film studies.” (Dina Iordanova, University of St Andrews, UK)
“This book provides an ambitious and long-awaited inquiry into Romanian art-house cinema. Strausz delivers a conceptual framework that deepens the conversation on the historiographic function of film. Hesitation, the central concept of the analysis, sheds light on a perception of history shared by most countries of the former Socialist Bloc, whose twentieth century has been marked by radical political system change.” (Constantin Parvulescu, University of Navarra, Spain)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen
Authors: László Strausz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55272-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55271-2Published: 07 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85613-1Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55272-9Published: 20 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 257
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Screen Studies, European Culture, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Memory Studies