On the Lack of Contemporariness of the Films Inspired by the Works of Ion Luca Caragiale. A Few Sociological Premises
On the Lack of Contemporariness of the Films Inspired by the Works of Ion Luca Caragiale. A Few Sociological Premises

Summary/Abstract: Humour, a predominantly social phenomenon, has its own public or target audience. This is the first lesson we learn by analysing any cultural product classified stylistically and technically: film, book, work of art. For over 50 years there has been talk of “Caragiale's contemporariness”, but also about the products inspired by the national satirical writer. The phrase itself has inspired almost 15 films made after 1950 and before 1989 (excluding the products of the Romanian National Television). Caragiale has been promoted through all educational means and has been the subject of numerous public festivities. Starting from this cultural finding, this approach puts the issue of Caragiale's actuality in 2018, or, more specifically, the creation of a radically structured niche, bringing I.L. Caragiale to the forefront of public attention. Caragiale is a generational landmark, perhaps, but is no longer a benchmark of Society 2.0 after 2006-2007. Caragiale did not live in or mocked the affirmation of a new “hyper-consumerist society” (Lipovetsky, 2007), with “postmodern, liquid” values and models of social behavior (Bauman, 2000, Eco, 2016). “About Caragiale's Inaccuracy” follows the way in which the one-sided interpretation of the creator and his products did not pass the examination of the modified social codes after 2006-2007.

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