Comparing Waves. Cultural and Aesthetic Similarities between Recent Romanian and Hungarian Cinemas Doru Pop Abstract: This paper addresses the issues of cultural identity and aesthetic specificity, as manifested in cinema-making practices of the Romanian and Hungarian recent films. The main questions are if the Romanian film makers tell different stories from their neighboring colleagues, or if the contemporary movies are ... Read More Keywords: national cinema, regional cinema, Eastern and Central European waves, film styles and film schools |
Stranger than Paradise: Postcommunist Immigration in the Eyes of Self and ‘Other’ Christina STOJANOVA Abstract: Since the beginning of the millennium, Eastern European cinemas have produced a number of films, devoted to the problems of post-communist immigrants ‘there,’ in the new lands of promise, and of the feelings of those, left behind ‘here,’ in their native lands. It is enough to mention... Read More Keywords: Eastern Europe, postcommunist, post-colonial, self-colonizing, gaze, (im) migration, emigration, human-trafficking |
Martina OLIVERO Abstract: The aim of the article is to show which status images assume in the aesthetics of Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică, both coming from Eastern cultures but long-standing German residents. As a fact, Central Europe film industry could offer more opportunities, since Eastern Europe’s recent history has bee... Read More Keywords: Romanian cinema, Critical theory, 1989 Romanian revolution, media theory, status of images, documentary, Eastern-Central Europe |
Transmediation or Media Representation? Media Transformation in Recent Eastern European Films Liviu LUTAS Abstract: As scholars have shown lately, the trope of the tableau vivant is surprisingly recurrent in recent Eastern European cinema. However, there is a classification uncertainty which leads to terminological confusion. I argue for instance that the tableau vivant should be seen as a subclass of i... Read More Keywords: transmediation, intermediality, tableau vivant |
Fanni FELDMANN Abstract: This paper explores the dichotomy between rural and urban spaces as represented in Eastern European queer-themed cinema. The analysed films (Land of Storms, Beyond the Hills, In the Name of, The Country Teacher, Go West) imagine and construct the countryside as a conservative, patriarchal and heter... Read More Keywords: Eastern European cinema, sexual otherness, spatial dichotomies, value hiearchies |
Horea POENAR Abstract: The paper will open several avenues for research and reflection by revisiting Marian Crișan’s Morgen, Tarr Bela’s Werckmeister Harmonies and Jean-Luc Godard’s Notre musique. The key element will be the figure of the refugee as a figure-on-the-threshold that enac... Read More Keywords: testimony, refugee, universality, Event, ethics |
A Figure of Transgression in Literature, Theatre, and Cinema: Aglaja Ștefan FIRICĂ Abstract: Ever since the publication of her two books (Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht, 1999, and Das Regal der letzten Atemzüge, 2002), Aglaja Veteranyi seemed to fall in between the classical divisions of literary systems. As a multingual (with a Hungarian-Romanian heritage, performing in... Read More Keywords: identity, migrant literature, feminine literature, interart studies, circus |
Balázs ZÁGONI Abstract: This paper discusses the cinematic expressions of a cultural experience which had a huge impact on Romanian and Hungarian society: namely both countries’ national revolutions. In focus are two films, one from each country: Children of Glory by Kriszta Goda and The Paper Will Be Blue ... Read More Keywords: art cinema, Bordwellian, Hollywood narrative, history, New Hungarian Cinema, Romanian New Wave |
The Civil War and Revolution in Stalinist Films. Cult Films, Evasiveness and Clichés Olga GRĂDINARU Abstract: Having as a starting point the fact that the Stalinist cinematography played the role of an institution in producing history, the paper proposes analysis of films which tackle the Civil War and the Russian Revolution. Regardless of what films we take into account, whether the cult films of the Soviet cinema... Read More Keywords: Stalinist cinema and myths, evasiveness and clichés, representation of the Civil War and the Russian Revolution, the Civil War cult |
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