Perspectives on Post-Cinema Att ractions Delia ENYEDI Abstract: Read More Keywords: Post-Cinema Attractions |
The Aesthetics of the Non-Cinematic in Cristian Mungiu’s Cinema Doru POP Abstract: This paper analyses the non-cinematic manifestations in Bacalaureat (2016), Cristian Mungiu’s most recent movie, at the narrative and visual levels. The author distinguishes between extra-cinematic, post-cinematic and non-cinematic and uses a... Read More Keywords: post-cinema, non-cinematic, extra-cinematic, Cristian Mungiu, Bacalaureat, Rancière, social criticism, aesthetic of the ineffable |
Mashup Cinema or Eisenstein’s Legacy Mircea Valeriu DEACA Abstract: The paper focuses on the supposed fundamental change in contemporary films. After a short survey of several points of view on the matter I discuss the case of mashup cinema. This genre is based on recycling of cinematic sequences in order to create new narrative and fictional discourses. Contrary... Read More Keywords: Cognition, film analysis, mashup cinema, cinematic topoi, cognitive grammar, postmodernism, carnival, cinema of attractions, discontinuity, narrative |
Homeland, History and Tales: Narrative Strategies and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art Vincenzo ESTREMO Abstract: This essay aims to understand how the question of narration became central in contemporary art moving image production paying specific attention to the relationship between historiography and fictionalisation. Starting from the so called “historiographical turn in art” (Roelstraete 2009) it em... Read More Keywords: history, documentality, fiction, storytelling, audience |
Oana ȘERBAN Abstract: This article aims to coin the concept of “democratic attraction / affect” meaning the power of the cinema, as mass art, to produce the truth both in theory and in practice, as ideology and liberation. My working hypothesis is inspired by Alain Badiou’s perspective on cinema as a paradoxica... Read More Keywords: mass art, democratic attraction, affect, emotion, cinema, narratives of attraction, modernity, Badiou |
3D Att ractions: Recycling the Monomyth in Post-Cinema Delia ENYEDI Abstract: Forays into the origins of cinema have lead André Gaudreault to correct the use of the collocation “early cinema” in regard to the approximate period 1890-1910 with the term “kine-attractography”, thus designating the use of recording and projecting devices into already existi... Read More Keywords: 3D filmmaking, attraction, narration, monomyth, post-cinema |
Mediated Memory: Scenarios for Staging the Revolution Corina ILEA Abstract: Mediated Memory. Scenarios for Staging the Revolution interrogates visual testimonies and memories of a traumatic past re-accessed through cultural memory. Irina Botea’s video project Auditions for a Revolution (2006) investigates the collective memory of an event – the Romania... Read More Keywords: mediated memory, trauma, collective memory, ideology, re-enactment, theatricality |
Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog. A Post-Cinematic Meditation on Aff ection Daria IOAN Abstract: In this article, I analyze Laurie Anderson’s hybrid film Heart of a Dog by contrast with traditional ways of making cinema and confront it with recent post cinema theories. Referring to a state of in-between and changing perception in an afterlife dimension, Anderson uses a multitude of combined visual techniques in ord... Read More Keywords: surveillance culture, hybrid, post-cinematic effects, transitory imagery, data collection, technology, perception |
From the “Big” Movie of the World to the Personal One and Back. 127 Hours as a Case Study Ioan BUTEANU Abstract: This paper is analyzing the definition of the term postcinema trying to reveal its content, extent and usefulness. In the second part the research is based on a case study dedicated to 127 Hours, directed by Danny Boyle. Cataloging the images taken by Aron with his personal camera, their content, ... Read More Keywords: cinematic, postcinematic, personal camera, intimate space, confession |
Digital Media and the Information Age. Interview with Dr. Peter BRUCK, Research Studios Austria Rodica MOCAN Abstract: Between 10-12 September of 2015, Babeș-Bolyai University – in partnership with the Cluj City Hall and Share Foundation – hosted the Grand Jury meeting of the European Youth Award 2015, a project included in the European Youth Capital program. The members of the grand jury are young... Read More Keywords: Interview with Dr. Peter BRUCK |
Silent Film Never Gets Old: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2016 Isabel KREK Abstract: Review Read MoreKeywords: Giornate del Cinema Muto 2016 |
Silent Cinema as Ambiguous Heritage at the Giornate del Cinema Muto Sebastian KÖTHE Abstract: Review Read MoreKeywords: Giornate del Cinema Muto 2016 |
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