Történelem, kulturális emlékezet és intermedialitás Radu Jude Aferim! című filmjében
History, Cultural Memory and Intermediality in Radu Jude’s Aferim!

Summary/Abstract: A historical drama that can be interpreted at the juncture of theoretical discourses (heritage film, auteur film), genres (historical film, western, road movie) and representational modes (connecting to – and also subverting at the same time – the historical image of classical Romanian cinema), Radu Jude’s Aferim! (2015) has attracted the attention of the international public by the way in which it responds to the tradition of representing the Romanian historical past. Its unique place within New Romanian Cinema can be assigned to the fact that it does not focus on tensions of the post-communist condition or their antecedents in the recent communist past; instead, it goes back in history to a much earlier period, to the Romanian ancien régime, after the Ottoman occupation and before the abolition of the Gypsy slaves, in order to point at the historical roots of current social problems. Through its ingenuous architextual and intermedial solutions, which are presented in detail the present paper, Radu Jude’s cinematic collage exposes the traditional historical iconography and replaces the mythical national image of history with the traumatic collective memory of an ethnically mixed society.

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