The New Romanian Cinema

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by Dana Duma and Christina Stojanova

Type: Studies
Subject: Countries > Europe
Keywords: Romania, Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 2019
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Collection: Traditions in World Cinema
Language: English

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Hardcover • 344 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7486-4264-9

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Book Presentation:
The first collection of essays to comprehensively map out New Romanian Cinema

Covering more than forty films made since 2001 – including The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Paper will be Blue, Police, Adjective and Beyond the Hills – this pioneering collection of essays on New Romanian Cinema is the first to contextualise it aesthetically, theoretically and historically. Scholars from across Europe and North America are brought together, reflecting on the realism, minimalism and intermedial artifice of New Romanian cinemas, on its approaches to issues of national and gender identity, and on its unique convergence of ethics and aesthetics.

With its thorough bibliographic and filmographic references, and a comprehensive historical overview, the anthology represents a systematic guide to New Romanian Cinema as a consolidated cinematic movement, and highlights its potential as a rich interdisciplinary field of study.
Contributors
• Melinda Blos-Jáni, Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca
• Mircea Deaca, University of Bucharest
• Dana Duma, Bucharest National University of Theatre and Film
• Kalling Heck, University of Redlands
• Raluca Iacob, independent researcher and film curator
• Liviu Lutas, Linnaeus Universit
• Dominique Nasta, Université Libre de Bruxelles
• Ágnes Pethő, Sapientia Hungarian University, Cluj-Napoca
• Doru Pop, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj
• Katalin Sándor, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj
• Christina Stojanova, University of Regina
• Irina Trocan, Bucharest National University of Theatre and Film
• Marian Țuțui, Hyperion University
• Ioana Uricaru, Middlebury College
• Andrea Virginás, Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca

About the authors:
Christina Stojanova is a media historian, specializing in philosophical, ideological, and analytical-psychological aspects of narrative modes and fictional representation in the cinemas of Quebec, interwar Germany, and Eastern and Central Europe. Associate professor at the Department of Film, University of Regina, since 2005 she has contributes 20 chapters to internationally acclaimed publications, two of which – Wittgenstein at the Movies (2011) and The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard (2014) – she has co-edited. Editor of the forthcoming The New Romanian Cinema (2019), she is currently working on monograph about Canadian animator Caroline Leaf.

Press Reviews:
In the last decade and a half the New Romanian Cinema became the most exciting phenomenon originating from the old Eastern Europe. This collection, in which the leading specialists in the area cover topics such as minimalism, genre, gender, intermediality and intertextuality, as well as its roots in national and global context, is a valuable addition to the body of work about Romanian cinema.– Ewa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire

This stimulating collection approaches New Romanian Cinema from both theoretical and historical perspectives, referencing important antecedents in Romanian culture together with links to international developments in cinema and the visual arts. Christina Stojanova has assembled an impressive range of contributions offering original perspectives on one of the key developments in post-Socialist cinemas.– Professor Peter Hames, Staffordshire University

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