Description
Romanian Capitalism on Screen examines contemporary Romanian cinema as a testimony to pivotal aspects of Romania's postsocialist economy and culture. It complements existing accounts of economic and cultural history by utilizing the perspective of socially engaged, high-quality cinema to provide enlightening insights into the country's emerging capitalist culture. Focusing on key feature films of the New Romanian Cinema, the monograph presents a methodological framework for analyzing cinematic texts as "histories of the present." It addresses the economic imagination of emerging entrepreneurial classes, the value of human life within neoliberal contexts, the struggles of the middle and working classes during periods of radical economic and social transformation, the mental mapping of globalization from a European periphery, and emigration as a form of economic revenge.
About the Author
Constantin Parvulescu is associate professor of film and media studies, director of the Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts and Head of the Master's Program in Film and Audiovisual Studies at Babe?-Bolyai University. He has written several articles on the political cinema of Europe, film and economic history, and Eastern European film cultures. He is the author of Orphans of the East: Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject (2015) and the editor Global Finance on Screen: From Wall Street to Side Street (2017).
Book Information
ISBN 9781399540162
Author Constantin Parvulescu
Format Hardback
Page Count 284
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
About the Author
Constantin Parvulescu is associate professor of film and media studies, director of the Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts and Head of the Master's Program in Film and Audiovisual Studies at Babe?-Bolyai University. He has written several articles on the political cinema of Europe, film and economic history, and Eastern European film cultures. He is the author of Orphans of the East: Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject (2015) and the editor Global Finance on Screen: From Wall Street to Side Street (2017).
Book Information
ISBN 9781399540162
Author Constantin Parvulescu
Format Hardback
Page Count 284
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
