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Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen
Laszlo Strausz
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Description for Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
257
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319552712
SKU
V9783319552712
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99-15
About Laszlo Strausz
László Strausz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.
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