TY - BOOK ID - 15995117 TI - Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen PY - 2017 SN - 3319552724 3319552716 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Motion pictures and television. KW - Ethnology-Europe. KW - Russia-History. KW - Historiography. KW - Screen Studies. KW - European Culture. KW - Russian, Soviet, and East European History. KW - Memory Studies. KW - Historical criticism KW - Authorship KW - Moving-pictures and television KW - Television and motion pictures KW - Television KW - Criticism KW - Historiography KW - Ethnology—Europe. KW - Russia—History. KW - Europe, Eastern—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15995117 AB - This book argues that hesitation as an artistic and spectatorial strategy connects various screen media texts produced in post-war Romania. The chapters draw a historical connection between films made during the state socialist decades, televised broadcasts of the 1989 Romanian revolution, and films of the new Romanian cinema. The book explores how the critical attitude of new Romanian cinema demonstrates a refusal to accept limiting, binary discourses rooted in Cold War narratives. Strausz argues that hesitation becomes an attempt to overcome restrictive populist narratives of the past and present day. By employing a performative and mobile position, audiences are encouraged to consider conflicting approaches to history and social transformation. ER -