The New Romanian Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780748642649 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 224 str.

Dana Duma;Christina Stojanova

Opis

Films such as Occident, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Police, Adjective and If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle have brought Romanian cinema from relative obscurity into the limelight of the international festival circuit and to the attention of professional and lay audiences alike. These films' common aesthetic, thematic, ethical and ideological traits expound a coherent and increasingly important film movement - the new Romanian cinema. Through the prism of a representative selection of twenty extraordinarily well-crafted and highly awarded films made over the last decade, this book offers an overview of Romanian cinema from its origins to the present. It describes the cultural, social and political environment. It features historical and textual analysis of key films. It offers a unique exploration of the films' audio-visual grammar of space and time. It integrates contemporary film theory and cultural and gender studies. It examines the broader (Eastern European) industrial context and the impact of audience and industry discourses. It features interviews with prominent directors such as Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, and Corneliu Porumboiu.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction, Christina Stojanova; Part I. Modernism/ Minimalism; 1: Beyond Modernity: The Stylistic Divide and the New Romanian Cinema, Dominique Nasta; 2: Minimalism in the New Romanian Cinema: Absent, Omnipresent or Misjudged? Ioana Trocan; 3: No Melo – Minimalism and Melodrama in New Romanian Cinema, Ioana Uricaru; Part II. Intermediality/ Intertextuality; 4: ‘Exhibited Space’ and Intermediality in the films of Corneliu Porumboiu, Ágnes Peth?; 5: Filming the Camera: Reflexivity and Reenactment in Lucian Pintilie’s Reconstruction (1969 and Niki and Flo (2003), Katalin Sándor; 6: Ephemeral History and Enduring Celluloid: Cinematic Reality and Theatricality in Nae Caranfil’s Films, Melinda Blos-Jáni; 7: Remediation and Minimalism in New Romanian Cinema: The Example of Cristi Puiu, Liviu Lutas; Part III. Ethics/ New Aesthetics; 8: Authenticity in New Romanian Cinema: ‘Ethics and Aesthetics are One’, Christina Stojanova; 9: The Square and the Screen: The Ethical Dimension of the New Romanian Cinema, Ioana Uricaru; 10: Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills and Austerity Politics, Kalling Heck; Part IV: Gender/ Genre; 11: Woman Films: Body and Will, Dana Duma; 12: Traces of Genre in New Romanian Cinema: A Narrow Path for a Small Entity, Andrea Virginas; Part V: National/Place and Transnational/Space; 13: Kitchen Encounters: Scenes of Face to Face Dialogues in Films of the New Romanian Cinema, Mircea Deaca; 14: New Romanian Cinema: Geography and Identity, Marian ?u?ui and Raluca Iacob; 15: The ‘Transnational Turn’: New Urban Identities and the Transformation of Contemporary Romanian Cinema, Doru Pop; Part VI: Historical Overview of Romanian Cinema, Christina Stojanova; Combined Bibliography; New Romanian Cinema Filmography, Raluca Iacob; General Filmography, Raluca Iacob; Notes on Contributors; Index