From Communism to Capitalism

Nation and State in Romanian Cultural Production
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-27691-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 3551 g

This book offers an interdisciplinary mode of analyzing transitions from communism and planned economy to democracy and capitalism focusing on how the various social and political transformations are reflected within one hundred Romanian films produced during communism, transition, and post-transition.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andreescu, F.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents: 1. Transitions and the Aesthetic Turn 1 2. Radical Social Change and Distortions of Fantasy Formations: a Model of Analysis 39 3. Transitions and The Changing Face of the Social Authority 69 4. The Journey of the Romanian Worker Hero 115 5. The Changing Face of the Sacrificial Romanian Woman 147 6. From Communism to Capitalism: Reshaping the Space of the Nation 181 7. Conclusions 209

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Florentina C. Andreescu is a lecturer in International Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Her work investigates through cinema issues of legitimization and social authority, gendered, national and ethnic identities, transitions, trauma and space. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Space and Culture, Nationalities Papers: the Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Studia Politica Romanian Political Science Review and Short Film Studies.