Charts and Paradigms
Charts and Paradigms
Author(s): Alex. Leo ŞerbanSubject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Muzeul Ţăranului Român, Editura Martor
Keywords: cinematography; (post)communism; memory; the seventh art; Romanian society; anthropological dimension of films;
Summary/Abstract: In evaluating the postcommunist Romanian cinematography, not the charts and paradigms prove to be relevant (being, in fact, inoperative and futile). What eventually matters is a huge - and undoubtedly unpremeditated recovering effort of the anthropological dimension: all Romanian movies after 1990 - no matter the quality!- represent a devoted mirror of the human mutations (sociological and of any other kind) that the Romanian society has undergone during the past fifteen years. From this perspective, the value of the cinema productions comes second to the interests an anthropologist can take in any of the titles appeared after 1990!
Journal: Martor. Revue d’Anthropologie du Musée du Paysan Roumain
- Issue Year: 2005
- Issue No: 10
- Page Range: 101-103
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English
